[Amended 5-30-1972; 7-11-2000]
For the purposes of this chapter the following words and phrases shall have the meanings respectively ascribed them by this section:
An area in the roadway set aside for the boarding of or alighting from and the parking of buses.
The Committee on Police and License.
That portion of a roadway ordinarily included within the prolongation or connection of curblines and property lines at intersections or at any portion of a roadway clearly indicated for pedestrian crossing by lines on the road surface or by other markings or signs.
The Massachusetts Department of Transportation.[1]
Vehicles of the Fire Department, police vehicles, ambulances and emergency vehicles of federal, state and municipal departments or public service corporations when the latter are responding to an emergency in relation to the Police or Fire Department.
Any procession of mourners properly identified as such accompanying the remains of a human body.
The area embraced within the extension of the lateral curblines or, if none, the lateral boundary lines of intersecting ways as defined in MGL c. 90, § 1, including divided ways.
A longitudinal division of a roadway into a strip of sufficient width to accommodate the passage of a single line of vehicles.
That area of a roadway reserved for pedestrian crossing located between two solid white reflectorized twelve-inch pavement markings in rural areas or markings not less than six inches wide in urban areas, such markings or lines being no less than six feet apart.
Any space within a parking meter zone which is duly designated for the parking of a single vehicle by lines painted on the surface of the street or facility.
[Amended 12-13-2011]
Any officer, any investigator, examiner or inspector of the Registry of Motor Vehicles, any constable or special officer, provided that the officer has the badge of office displayed over his/her left breast and upon his/her outer garment.
That portion of a curbing, the painting of which has been authorized by the Municipal Council and which conforms to the standards prescribed by the Massachusetts Department of Transportation.
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 Municipal Council and which conforms to the standards prescribed by the Massachusetts Department of Transportation.
All signals conforming to the standards prescribed by the Massachusetts Department of Transportation, not inconsistent with this chapter, placed or erected by authority of a public body or official having jurisdiction, for the purpose of directing or warning traffic.
All signs, markings and devices, other than signals, not inconsistent with this chapter, and which conform to the standards prescribed by the Massachusetts Department of Transportation, placed or erected by authority of a public body or official having jurisdiction, for the purpose of guiding, directing, warning or regulating traffic.
The standing of a vehicle, whether occupied or not, otherwise than temporarily for the purpose of and while actually engaged in loading or unloading, or in obedience to an officer or traffic signs or signals, or while making emergency repairs or, if disabled, while arrangements are being made to move such vehicle.
An electronic parking control payment system used in lieu of parking meters, covering multiple parking spaces. Upon payment, a parking kiosk shall issue a printed parking receipt indicating the date of issuance and expiration time of the interval of authorized parking at which time the payee may no longer remain lawfully parked within the parking meter zone. The parking receipt shall authorize parking for the full period of time for which parking is lawfully permitted in any parking meter zone or for an appropriate fractional period of time.
[Added 12-13-2011]
Any mechanical or electronic device, not inconsistent with the provisions of this chapter, placed or erected on any public way within the City 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.
[Amended 12-13-2011]
Any street, portion thereof or off-street municipal facility upon which parking meters/kiosks 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.
[Amended 12-13-2011]
Any person afoot or riding on a conveyance moved by human power, except bicycles or tricycles.
Any intersection of ways with a railroad right-of-way.
A portion of a way or street (or entire street or way) within the City which has been designated as open only to certain types of vehicles.
That portion of a street or highway between the regularly established curblines or that part, exclusive of shoulders, improved and intended to be used for vehicular traffic.
Any area or space set aside within a roadway for the exclusive use of pedestrians and which has been indicated by signs, lines or markings, which conforms to the standards prescribed by the Massachusetts Department of Transportation.
An area in the roadway set aside for the accommodation of commercial and transient vehicular traffic.
That portion of a street or highway 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 in which certain taxicabs are required to park while waiting to be engaged.
Pedestrians, ridden or herded animals, vehicles or other conveyances, either single or together, while using any street or highway for the purpose of travel.
Any area along any way, other than an intersecting way, at which drivers are to be controlled by traffic control signals.
Any device using colored lights which conforms to the standards as prescribed by the Department of Transportation of the commonwealth, whether manually, electrically or mechanically operated, by which traffic may be alternately directed to stop and to proceed.[2]
Any area or space set aside, within a roadway, which is not intended for use by vehicular traffic.
The turning of a vehicle by means of 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 highway, including bicycles when the provisions of these rules are applicable to them, except other devices moved by human power or used exclusively upon stationary rails or tracks and devices which derive their power for operation from stationary overhead wires.