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The Select Board of the Town of Ashland, acting
under the authority conferred by MGL c. 40, § 22, and by
virtue of any and every other enabling power, does hereby make, adopt
and establish the following rules and orders for the regulation of
carriages and vehicles used in said town and special regulations as
to the use of motor vehicles upon particular or certain ways therein,
hereinafter referred to collectively as the "rules."
These rules are adopted with the intent that
each of them shall have force and effect separately and independently
of every other, except insofar as by express reference or necessary
implication any rule or any part of a rule is made dependent upon
another rule or part thereof.
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The provisions of these rules, so far as they
are the same as those of any existing rules, orders or regulations
heretofore made by the Select Board of Ashland, shall be construed
as a continuation thereof, but all other existing rules, orders and
regulations so made for the regulation of carriages and vehicles,
except such as have been adopted under and in compliance with MGL
c. 90, § 18, are hereby expressly repealed; provided, however,
that such repeal shall not affect any punishment or penalty imposed
or any complaint or prosecution pending at the time of the repeal
for an offense committed under any of said rules, orders or regulations
hereby repealed.
For the purpose of these rules and orders, the
words and phrases used herein shall have the following meanings, except
in those instances where the context clearly indicates a different
meaning:
An area in any street, square or other public place, set
apart and designated as such by the Select Board, in which buses or
other licensed motor vehicles may stop to receive or discharge passengers.
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That portion of a roadway included within the prolongation
or connection of curblines and property lines at intersections or
any portion of a roadway clearly indicated for pedestrian crossing
by lines on the road surface or by other markings or signs.
Vehicles of the Fire and Police Departments, ambulances and
emergency vehicles of public service corporations when responding
to an emergency of a public nature.
Any procession of mourners, properly identified as such,
accompanying the remains of a human body.
The area embraced within the extensions of the lateral curblines
or, if none, then the lateral boundary lines of intersecting ways
as defined in MGL c. 90, § 1, including divided ways. The
rules and regulations herein contained governing the restriction or
movement of vehicles at and near intersecting ways shall apply at
any place along any way at which drivers are to be controlled by traffic
control signals, whether or not such place is an "intersection" as
herein defined.
A longitudinal division of a roadway into a strip of sufficient
width to accommodate the passage of a single line of vehicles.
Any officer or official authorized by law to direct, control
or regulate traffic who is in uniform or has his badge of office displayed
upon the left breast of his outer garment.
That portion of a curbing painted by authority of the Select
Board with the written approval of the Massachusetts Highway Department
for the purpose of indicating a place in which parking is prohibited
or restricted.
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Any painted line, legend, marking or marker of any description
painted or placed upon any way which purports to direct or regulate
traffic and which has been authorized by the Select Board and has
the written approval of said Massachusetts Highway Department.
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All signals, conforming to the standards prescribed by said
Massachusetts Highway Department not inconsistent with these rules
and orders, placed or erected by authority of the Select Board for
the purpose of directing or warning traffic.
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All signs, markings and devices other than signals, conforming
to the standards prescribed by said Massachusetts Highway Department
and placed or erected by authority of the Select Board for the purpose
of guiding, directing, warning or regulating traffic.
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The standing of a vehicle, whether occupied or not, otherwise
than temporarily for the purpose of and while engaged in loading or
unloading passengers or in obedience to an officer or traffic sign
or signal or, if disabled, while arrangements are being made to move
such vehicle.
Any mechanical device not inconsistent with the provisions
of this chapter and placed or erected on any public way within the
Town of Ashland for the regulation of parking. Each "parking meter"
installed shall indicate by proper legend the legal parking time established
by this chapter and when operated shall at all times indicate the
balance of legal parking time permitted and, at the expiration of
such period, shall indicate illegal or overtime parking.
Any space within a parking meter zone, adjacent to a parking
meter, which is duly designated for the parking of a single vehicle
by lines painted on the surface of the street adjacent to or adjoining
each parking meter.
Includes any street or portion thereof upon which parking
meters are installed and in operation and upon which parking of vehicles
is permitted for a limited time, subject to compliance with the further
provisions of this chapter.
Any person afoot or riding in or upon a vehicle moved by
human power, except bicycles and tricycles.
Includes any individual, firm, partnership, association or
corporation.
An intersection of a way with a railroad right-of-way.
That portion of a street or highway between the regularly
established curblines or that part, exclusive of slopes known as "shoulder,"
improved and intended to be used for vehicular traffic.
Any area or space set aside within a roadway for exclusive
use of pedestrians and which is indicated by signs, lines or markings,
having the written approval of said Massachusetts Highway Department.
An area in the roadway set aside for the accommodation of
commercial and transient vehicular traffic.
That portion of a street or highway parallel with the roadway,
set aside for pedestrian travel.
The entire width between property lines of every way open
to the use of the public for purposes of travel.
An area in the roadway, designated by the Select Board and
marked, in which licensed taxicabs are required to park while waiting
to be engaged.
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Pedestrians, ridden or herded animals, vehicles, streetcars
or other conveyances, either singly or together, while using a street
or highway for the purpose of travel.
Any device using colored lights, which conforms to the standards
as prescribed by the Massachusetts Highway Department of the Commonwealth
of Massachusetts, whether manually, electrically or mechanically operated,
by which traffic may be alternately directed to stop or proceed.
Any area or space set aside, within a roadway, for the purpose
of separating vehicular traffic and which is not intended for use
by vehicular traffic.
The turning of a vehicle by means of a continuous left turn
whereby the direction of such vehicle is reversed.
Every device in, upon or by which any person or property
is or may be transported or drawn upon a street or highway.
