B.
Parking meter zones established. Parking meters in off-street parking
areas are established in the following locations:
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(1)
Certain
park land on the westerly side of Columbus Avenue, bounded on the
north by the northerly line of Court Street extended westerly to the
Connecticut River, westerly by the Connecticut River, southerly by
the northerly boundary of the land of the Western Massachusetts Electric
Company (formerly the United Electric Light Company) lying westerly
of the land of the New York, New Haven and Hartford Railroad Company
and by the northerly boundary of that portion of Elm Street lying
easterly of the land of such railroad company and extending to its
intersection with Columbus Avenue to its intersection with Court Street.
(2)
Certain
areas in the municipal grouping known as the "horseshoe" bounded on
the north side by the southerly street of Pynchon Street, easterly
by City Hall, southerly by the Campanile, and westerly by Symphony
Hall.
C.
Installation, control and maintenance of meters.
(1)
The Traffic Commission may cause parking meters to be purchased and
installed within the bounds of off-street parking areas which have
been placed under the jurisdiction of the Traffic Commission by the
City Council and designated by the City Council as off-street parking
areas.
(2)
The Traffic Commission shall designate the areas or portion thereof
in which parking meters shall be installed.
(3)
The Police Department shall be responsible for the control, operation
and maintenance of all parking meters located in off-street parking
areas.
D.
Designation of spaces; manner of parking.
(1)
The Director of Public Works is directed and authorized to mark off individual parking spaces in the location designated and described in Subsection A, with lines or marks in any off-street parking area under the jurisdiction of the Traffic Commission when so ordered by such Commission.
(2)
At each space so marked off, it is unlawful to park any vehicle in
such a way that such vehicle shall not be entirely within the limits
of the space so designated, except such vehicles whose size or load
overlap such lines or marks.
E.
Parking time limits and required deposits. The Traffic Commission,
subject to the approval of the City Council, shall designate the parking
time limits and the fees to be established in such off-street parking
areas; provided, however, that the fees shall not exceed a rate of
$0.05 per thirty-minute period of parking.
A.
Except as otherwise provided in MGL c. 90, § 18, and
subject so far as applicable to MGL c. 85, § 2, and
MGL c. 89, §§ 8 and 9, the City Council, with
the approval of the Mayor, may make rules and regulations for the
regulation of vehicles in the City to promote public safety and convenience.
Such rules and orders shall not take effect until they have been published
at least once in a newspaper published within Springfield, and violations
of such rules and regulations may be punished by a fine not exceeding
$20 for each offense.
B.
The Traffic Engineer is authorized and empowered to recommend that
rules and regulations as aforesaid be enacted to control traffic on
those private ways where in his judgment they are necessary to control
the flow of motor vehicle and other traffic and reduce either a possible
or existing danger to the safety and convenience of the public. The
Traffic Engineer is authorized and empowered to install traffic-control
devices in accordance with the requirements of any rules and regulations
adopted as aforesaid. Such traffic-control devices may include, but
are not limited to, direction signs, warning signs or lights, curb,
street or other traffic markings, mechanical traffic signal systems,
stop signs, stop lights or any other traffic-control devices which
are necessary to carry out the rules and regulations enacted as aforesaid.
C.
The Traffic Engineer is authorized to notify owners of traffic-control
devices which are located on private ways in violation of rules and
regulations enacted as aforesaid to remove such traffic-control devices.
D.
The Traffic Engineer may, with the consent of the owner of such device,
remove such device from the private way. If such owner fails to remove
a traffic device which directs motorists to violate a rule and regulation
enacted as aforesaid after notice from the Traffic Engineer, said
owner shall be punished by a fine not exceeding $20 for each offense.
A.
Required; penalty.
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(1)
Any person who has lawful control of improved or enclosed private
property used as off-street parking for businesses, auditoriums, sporting
or recreational facilities, or cultural centers, residential dwellings,
or for any other place where the public has a right of access as invitees
or licensees shall reserve parking spaces in said off-street parking
areas for vehicles of handicapped persons if the number of parking
spaces in any such area is 15 or more.
(2)
The parking spaces reserved for vehicles of such handicapped persons
shall be clearly marked as such by pavement markings and signs or
other designation approved by the Director of Public Works of the
City or his designee. The parking spaces reserved for vehicles of
such handicapped persons shall be of such size as may be determined
by the Director of Public Works or his designee but not to be less
than 12 feet in width and shall be located on such property in close
proximity to the main pedestrian exit from the parking area, which
exit is safe and suitable for use by handicapped persons.
(3)
Parking spaces reserved for the vehicles of handicapped persons required
by this section shall be no less than the number specified by the
following formula:
|
Number of Parking Spaces in Off-Street Parking Area
|
Required Handicapped Spaces
| |
|---|---|---|
|
More than 15, but not more than 25
|
1
| |
|
More than 25, but not more than 40
|
5% of such spaces but not fewer than 2
| |
|
More than 40, but not more than 100
|
4% of such spaces but not fewer than 3
| |
|
More than 100, but not more than 200
|
3% of such spaces but not fewer than 4
| |
|
More than 200, but not more than 500
|
2% of such spaces but not fewer than 6
| |
|
More than 500, but not more than 1,000
|
1 1/2% of such spaces but not fewer than 10
| |
|
More than 1,000, but not more than 2,000
|
1% of such spaces but not fewer than 15
| |
|
More than 2,000, but not more than 5,000
|
3/4 of 1% of such spaces but not fewer than 20
| |
|
More than 5,000
|
1/2 of 1% of such spaces but not fewer than 30
|
(4)
Any person who does not reserve and mark as reserved such parking
spaces as are required by this section by December 1, 1981, shall
be punished by a fine of no more than $25 per day of such violation.
Any person who does not reserve and mark as reserved such parking
spaces as are required by the 1986 amendments to this section by December
1, 1986, shall be punished by a fine of no more than $25 per day of
such violation.
(5)
This section shall not apply to off-street parking areas owned or
controlled by the United States of America or the Commonwealth of
Massachusetts.
B.
Open-air parking businesses.
(1)
Any person applying for a license for an open-air parking business
under the provisions of MGL c. 148, § 56, shall, if
parking is to be done by customers of the licensed business, provide
to the licensing authority with its application a plan showing the
proposed flow of traffic within the parking area.
(2)
The licensing authority shall refer such plan to the Director of
Public Works of the City, who shall report to the licensing authority
whether such proposed flow of traffic presents a danger to the safety
of the customers of the licensed business or to the general public.
(3)
If such danger exists, the Director of Public Works may recommend
to the licensing authorities such conditions to the license as would
tend to reduce the danger to customers of the licensed business or
the general public resulting from the proposed traffic flow.
(4)
Any person licensed for an open-air parking business under the provisions of MGL c. 148, § 56, shall, if parking is to be done by customers of the licensed business, reserve and mark parking spaces for the handicapped as provided in Subsection A and shall be subject to penalty thereunder for failure to do so.
(5)
Parking in such reserved spaces shall be subject to Subsection C; provided, however, that no penalty shall be imposed under the provisions of Subsection C if all spaces other than those reserved for handicapped parking are filled by motor vehicles at the time the violation of Subsection C first occurs.
C.
Violations and penalties.
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(1)
No person shall allow, permit or suffer any vehicle registered in his name to stand or park in the spaces designated as reserved for handicapped persons under Subsections A and B, unless the motor vehicle is owned and operated by a disabled veteran or handicapped person whose vehicle bears the distinguishing license plate authorized by MGL c. 90, § 2, or is a motor vehicle transporting a handicapped person and displaying the special identification plate authorized by MGL c. 90, § 2, or is a vehicle bearing the official identification of a handicapped person issued by any other state.
(2)
Any police officer who takes cognizance of a violation of this section
shall affix to the motor vehicle a notice of such violation in conformity
with Chapter 90 of the General Laws.
(3)
Any person who allows, permits or suffers any vehicle registered
in his name to stand or park in the spaces designated as reserved
for handicapped persons in violation of this section shall be punished
by a fine of $15 if paid within 21 days and $20 if paid thereafter.
(4)
This section shall not apply to off-street parking areas owned or
controlled by the United States of America or the Commonwealth of
Massachusetts.
(5)
This section shall not apply to vehicles owned by the Commonwealth
of Massachusetts or a political subdivision thereof or by the United
States or an instrumentality thereof or vehicles registered by a member
of a foreign diplomatic corps or by a foreign consular officer who
is not a citizen of the United States and bearing a distinctive number
plate or otherwise conspicuously marked as so owned.
