For the purpose of this article, the following words and phrases
shall have the following meanings:
BUS STOP
An area in the roadway set aside for the boarding of or alighting
from and the parking of buses.
CROSSWALK
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 crossings
by lines on the road surface or by other markings or signs.
EMERGENCY VEHICLE
Vehicles of the Fire Department, police vehicles, ambulances
and emergency vehicles of federal, state and municipal departments
or public service corporations when responding to an emergency.
FUNERAL
Any procession of mourners properly identified as such accompanying
the remains of a human body.
LANE
A longitudinal division of a roadway into a strip of sufficient
width to accommodate the passage of a single line of vehicles.
OFFICER
Any police officer, any investigator, examiner or inspector
of the Registry of Motor Vehicles, any constable or special officer.
OFFICIAL CURB MARKING
That portion of a curbing, the painting of which has been
authorized by the Selectboard and which has the written approval of
the Massachusetts Department of Transportation.
OFFICIAL STREET MARKING
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 Selectboard and which
has the written approval of the Massachusetts Department of Transportation.
OFFICIAL TRAFFIC SIGNS
All signs, markings and devices approved by the Massachusetts
Department of Transportation and placed or erected by the authority
of a public body or official having jurisdiction, for the purpose
of guiding, directing, warning or regulating traffic.
PARKING
A vehicle being stationary, 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.
PEDESTRIAN
Any person afoot or riding on a conveyance moved by human
power, except bicycles or tricycles.
ROADWAY
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.
SIDEWALK
That portion of a street or highway set aside for pedestrian
travel.
STREET OR HIGHWAY
The entire width between property lines of every way open
to the use of the public for purposes of travel.
TAXICAB
A motor vehicle used for the conveyance of persons for hire,
but not including motor vehicles operated in the manner and for the
purpose stated in MGL c. 159A, nor motor vehicles hired for livery
purposes.
TAXICAB STAND
An area in the roadway in which certain taxicabs are required
to park while waiting to be engaged.
TRAFFIC
Pedestrians, ridden or herded animals, vehicles, streetcars
or other conveyances, either single or together, while using any street
or highway for the purpose of travel.
TRAFFIC-CONTROL SIGNAL
Any device using colored lights, conforming to the standards
as prescribed by the Department of Transportation of the Commonwealth
of Massachusetts, whether manually, electrically or mechanically operated,
by which traffic may be alternately directed to stop and proceed.
VEHICLE
Every device in, upon or by which any person or property
is or may be transported or drawn upon a street or highway, except
devices moved by human power or used exclusively upon stationary rails
or tracks.