It shall be unlawful for any person to willfully
deface, injure, move, obstruct or interfere with any official traffic
sign, signal or marking.
No driver of any vehicle shall disobey the instructions
of any official traffic control signal, sign, marking, marker or legend,
unless otherwise directed by a police officer.
A.
Obedience to isolated stop signs. Every driver of
a vehicle, railway car or other conveyance approaching an intersection
of ways where there exists, facing him, an official sign bearing the
word "stop" or a flashing red signal indication, said sign or signal
having, apart from these rules and orders, the written approval of
the Department of Public Works, Commonwealth of Massachusetts, and
such approval being in effect, shall, before proceeding through the
intersection, bring such vehicle, railway car or other conveyance
to a complete stop at such point as may be clearly marked by a sign
or line or, if a point is not so marked, then at the nearer line of
crosswalk of said intersection. In the case of a line of two (2) or
more vehicles approaching such stop sign or flashing red signal indication,
the drivers of the second and third vehicle in any group shall not
be required to stop more than once before proceeding through the intersection.
This section shall not apply when the traffic is otherwise directed
by an officer or by a lawful traffic regulating sign, signal or device.
In accordance with the foregoing, the erection and maintenance of
an isolated stop sign or signs or flashing red signals, as the case
may be, are authorized so as to face:
|
Name of Street
|
Direction
|
At Intersection of
|
|---|---|---|
|
Falls Road
|
Southbound
|
Montague Road
|
|
Hadley Road
|
Northbound
|
Old Amherst Road
|
|
Hadley Road
|
Southwestbound
|
River Road
|
|
North Silver Lane
|
Westbound
|
North Main Street
|
|
Old Amherst Road
|
Westbound
|
South Main Street
|
|
Plumtree Road
|
Westbound
|
Silver Lane
|
|
Russell Road
|
Westbound
|
Hadley Road
|
|
Russell Street
|
Northbound
|
Old Amherst Road
|
B.
Flashing red. When a red lens is illuminated in a
traffic control signal by rapid intermittent flashes and its use has
been specifically authorized by the Department of Public Works, Commonwealth
of Massachusetts, drivers shall stop before entering the nearer line
of crosswalk of the street intersection or at a stop line, when marked,
and the right to proceed shall then be governed by provisions of MGL
c. 89, § 8.
