No person shall drive any vehicle in such manner or stand alone
or with others as to unnecessarily obstruct the normal traffic upon
any street or highway.
Upon the streets and ways of the City, the driver of any tractor-trailer
truck and other slow-moving vehicles, when traveling outside of a
business district, shall not follow another tractor-trailer truck
or slow-moving vehicle within 200 feet, but this shall not prevent
such vehicles from overtaking and passing another tractor-trailer
truck or slow-moving vehicle. This section shall not apply to funerals
or other lawful processions.
The operator of a vehicle emerging from a driveway or garage
shall stop such vehicle immediately prior to driving onto a sidewalk
or onto a sidewalk area extending across any such driveway.
No person shall drive or ride in any vehicle in any cemetery
solely with the intent to pass through the same from street to street.
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,
such sign or signal having, apart from this chapter, 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, of if a point is not so marked, then at the nearer line or
crosswalk of the intersection. In the case of a line of two or more
vehicles approaching such stop sign or flashing red signal indication,
the drivers of the second and third vehicles 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.
A.
The use and operation of heavy commercial vehicles having a carrying
capacity of more than 2 1/2 tons are restricted on the streets
or parts thereof listed in Schedule VII and in the manner outlined
and during the time set forth.
B.
Exemptions. Subsection A of this section shall not apply to commercial vehicles going to or from places upon said streets for the purpose of making deliveries of goods, materials or merchandise to or similar collections from abutting land or buildings or adjoining streets or ways to which access cannot otherwise be gained or to vehicles used in connection with the construction, maintenance and repair of said street or public utilities therein; or to federal-, state-, municipal- or public-service-corporation-owned vehicles.
A.
No person shall cause, suffer, allow or permit the unnecessary operation
of the engine of a motor vehicle while said vehicle is stopped for
a foreseeable period of time in excess of five minutes. This section
shall not apply to vehicles being serviced, provided that the operation
of the engine is essential to the proper repair thereof, or vehicles
engaged in the delivery or acceptance of goods, wares and merchandise
for which engine-assisted power is necessary and substituted alternative
cannot be made available, and provided that said delivery is not being
made or occurring between the hours of 11:00 p.m. and 7:00 a.m., or
vehicles engaged in an operation for which the engine power is necessary
for an associate power need other than movement and substitute power
means cannot be made available, provided that such operation does
not cause or contribute to a condition of air pollution, and provided
that such act or occurrence is not occurring between the hours of
11:00 p.m. and 7:00 a.m.
B.
Whoever violates this section shall be punished by a fine of not
more than $50 for the first offense nor more than $100 for each succeeding
offense.
