[[1]HISTORY: Adopted by the Board of Selectmen (now Select
Board) of the Town of Norwell as indicated in article histories. Amendments
noted where applicable.]
[1]
Editor's Note: The title of this chapter was changed from
"Board of Selectmen" to "Select Board" 5-8-2021 ATM by Art. 11.
[Adopted 5-18-1959; amended 11-7-1972; 10-9-1973; 9-24-1974; 12-5-1978]
Use of meters shall be optional with operators provided the
charges do not exceed the above rates.
A.
Every person or corporation licensed by the Select Board (hereinafter
referred to as a "licensee") to operate taxicabs shall have a regular
place of business approved by the Board. Notice in writing shall be
given immediately to the Board by the licensee of any change in place
of business, or upon any change in the certificates of registration,
as issued by the Registrar of Motor Vehicles.
[Amended 5-8-2021 ATM by Art. 11]
B.
An applicant for a license to operate a taxicab shall present a valid
license to operate motor vehicles, issued by the Registrar of Motor
Vehicles, for each person who shall be employed as a driver of said
taxicabs.
C.
Notice in writing shall be given to the Select Board by licensees
of any changes in their driver personnel or changes in addresses of
such personnel.
[Amended 5-8-2021 ATM by Art. 11]
D.
No taxicab company shall have an outside signal or other sound device
except those approved by the Select Board.
[Amended 5-8-2021 ATM by Art. 11]
E.
The Select Board may assign any licensee a place as a special stand.
Licensees shall not trespass upon parking spaces to which they have
not been assigned.
[Amended 5-8-2021 ATM by Art. 11]
F.
The license to operate a taxicab, one of which shall be issued for
each vehicle, shall be displayed in a conspicuous place above the
vehicle and every driver shall display upon the request of any passenger
his license to operate motor vehicles.
G.
Every driver shall, immediately after delivering a passenger, search
said cab for any property which may have been left therein, and any
such property found therein shall be forthwith delivered to the Police
Department.
H.
If the driver of any taxicab shall give information or service to
any person seeking immoral entertainment, or continues to carry from
place to place a person who is noisy or disorderly, or carries an
intoxicated person not in the custody of a responsible person to any
place other than his home, the Board may revoke the license under
which such taxicabs are operated.
I.
Licenses to operate taxicabs shall expire one year from date of issue
and shall not be transferred without the consent of the Select Board
endorsed thereon. For each license the sum of $35 ($45 effective January
1, 1990) shall be paid to the Town Treasurer-Collector for the use
of the Town. A license so granted shall become void if the applicant
neglects or refuses to take out and pay for his license within 10
days after notice that it has been granted.[1]
[Amended 5-8-2021 ATM by Art. 11]
[1]
Editor's Note: Amendment pending.
[Adopted 12-3-1956; last
amended April 1998]
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:
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.
A longitudinal division of a roadway into a strip of sufficient
width to accommodate the passage of a single line of vehicles.
No person shall park a vehicle upon any street in any loading
zone for a period of time longer than 30 minutes and except while
actually engaged in loading or unloading.
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 which
has the written approval of the Department of Public Works, Commonwealth
of Massachusetts.
[Amended 5-8-2021 ATM by Art. 11]
All signs, markings and devices other than signals, not inconsistent
with these rules and orders, and which conform to the standards prescribed
by the Department of Public Works of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts
and placed or erected by authority of a public body or official having
jurisdiction, for the purpose of guiding, directing, warning or regulating
traffic.
The stopping or 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.
For the purpose of these rules and orders a police officer
shall be construed to mean any police officer, any constable or special
officer, provided he has his badge of office displayed over his left
breast and upon his outer garment.
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.
The entire width between property lines of every way open
to the use of the public for the purpose of travel.
No operator shall back or turn a vehicle so as to proceed
in the direction opposite to that in which said vehicle is headed
or traveling on the following streets.
Every device in, upon or by which any person or property
is or may be transported or drawn upon any street or highway, except
devices moved by human power.
A.
Police to direct traffic. It shall be the duty of the police officers
to enforce the provisions of these rules and orders. Police officers
are hereby authorized to direct all traffic either in person or by
means of visible or audible signal in conformance with the provisions
of these rules and orders, provided that in the event of a fire or
other emergency, to expedite traffic or safeguard pedestrians, officers
of the Police or Fire Department may direct traffic, as conditions
may require, notwithstanding the provisions of these rules and orders.
B.
Police may close streets temporarily. The Chief of Police may close
temporarily any street or highway in an impending or existing emergency,
or for any lawful assemblage, demonstration or procession, provided
there is reasonable justification for the closing of such street,
and in connection therewith, where the public convenience and necessity
require, the Chief of Police may authorize and direct the temporary
placement of detour signs.
C.
Police may prohibit parking temporarily. The Chief of Police may
prohibit, temporarily, parking on any street or highway or part thereof
in an impending or existing emergency, or for a lawful assemblage,
demonstration or procession, provided there is reasonable justification
for such prohibition. Vehicles parked in places where parking is prohibited
temporarily may be moved by or under the direction of an officer.
D.
Exemptions. The provisions of these rules and orders shall not apply
to operators actually engaged in work upon a street or highway closed
to travel or under construction or repair, to officers when engaged
in the performance of public duties nor to drivers of emergency vehicles
while operating in an emergency and in performance of public duties
when the nature of the work of any of these necessitates a departure
from any part of these rules and orders. These exemptions shall not,
however, protect the driver of any vehicle from consequences of a
reckless disregard of the safety of others.
A.
Interference with signs, signals and markings prohibited. It shall
be unlawful for any persons to willfully deface, injure, move or obstruct
or interfere with any official traffic sign, signal or marking.
B.
No driver of any vehicle shall disobey the instructions of any official
traffic control signal, sign, marking, marker or legend, unless otherwise
directed by a police officer.
A.
General prohibitions. No person shall park a vehicle in any of the
following places, and vehicles found parked in violation of the provisions
of this subsection may be moved by or under the direction of an officer
and at the expense of the owner to a place where parking is permitted:
(1)
Within an intersection.
(2)
Upon any sidewalk.
(3)
Upon any crosswalk.
(4)
Upon the roadway in a rural or sparsely settled district.
(5)
Upon a roadway where parking is permitted unless both wheels on the
right side of the vehicle are within 12 inches of the curb or edge
of the roadway. This shall not apply to streets or parts of streets
where angle parking is required by these regulations.
(6)
Upon any roadway where the parking of a vehicle will not leave a
clear and unobstructed lane at least 12 feet wide for passing traffic.
(7)
Upon any street or highway within 10 feet of a fire hydrant.
(8)
In front of any private road or driveway, without the consent of
the property owner.
(9)
Upon any street or highway within 20 feet of an intersecting way,
except alleys.
(10)
Upon any street or highway within 20 feet of a firehouse driveway.
B.
Prohibited on certain streets. Upon the following streets or highways
or parts thereof parking is hereby prohibited as set forth below,
during the hours stated:
(1)
Grove Street, northeast for a distance of 100 feet from Washington
Street, on both sides of the street.
(2)
High Street, southerly for a distance of 100 feet from Washington
Street, on both sides of the street and triangle.
(3)
Westerly side of Bridge Street for its entire length, 1,972 feet.
(4)
Easterly side of Dover Street from River Street to 100 yards beyond
the entrance of the Albert Norris Reservation, 700 feet.
(5)
Bowker Street (bounded southerly by Main Street, northerly by Grove
Street) for its entire length of 6,336 feet, with the exception of
allowing three spaces* between the telephone poles in front of Meadowcroft
Day Camp at 260 Bowker Street. *To allow parking for three vehicles
for nurses and an emergency camp van not to exceed a total area of
45 feet in length.
(6)
Oak Street (bounded easterly by High Street, westerly by Washington
Street, southerly by Ridge Hill Road) for its entire length of 965
feet.
C.
Time limited in designated areas. No person shall park a vehicle
in the following described areas for a period of time longer than
hereafter specified:
(1)
One-hour angle parking upon the southerly side of Main Street, from
River Street to the northwesterly property line of the First Parish
Cemetery.
(2)
One-hour parking parallel to curb upon the northerly side of Main
Street from Central Street, in an easterly direction, for a distance
of 500 feet.
D.
Angle parking.
(1)
The Select Board shall determine upon what streets angle parking
shall be permitted and shall mark and sign such streets, or cause
the same to be marked and signed. Vehicles shall be parked with the
right front wheel within 12 inches of the curb or edge of roadway
and at the angle to the curb indicated by marks and signs.
[Amended 5-8-2021 ATM by Art. 11]
(2)
Angle parking shall be required on the following streets or parts
thereof which have been marked and signed for angle parking:
(a)
One-hour angle parking upon the southerly side of Main Street,
from River Street to the northwesterly property line of the First
Parish Cemetery excluding 690 Main Street.
A.
Upon the following streets or parts of streets vehicular traffic
shall move only in the direction indicated below, provided that official
traffic signs are erected at each exit at each one-way street:
A.
Obedience to isolated stop signs.
(1)
Every driver of a vehicle, or other conveyance, approaching an intersection
of ways where there exists facing him an official sign, bearing the
word "Stop" and authorized by this section, said sign having, apart
from this regulation, 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
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
a place between the said "Stop" sign and the nearer line of the street
intersection. In the case of a line of two or more vehicles approaching
such "Stop" sign, the drivers of the second and third vehicles in
line 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.
(2)
In accordance with the foregoing, the erection and maintenance of
an official "Stop" sign or signs are authorized so as to face:
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Traffic on
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Direction of Travel
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Barque Hill Drive at intersection of Stetson Road
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Westbound
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Central Street at Main Street
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Southbound
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Church Street at River Street
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Southeastbound
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Common Street at River Street
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Eastbound
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Cross Street at Main Street
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Eastbound
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Cross Street at Old Oaken Bucket Road
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Northwestbound
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Cross Street at Winter Street
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Eastbound
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Dover Street at Main Street
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Eastbound
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Dover Street at River Street
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Southbound
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Franklin Road at intersection of Grove Street
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Northbound
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Gerard Road at intersection of Grove Street
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Northbound
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Green Street at Pine Street
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Westbound
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Green Street at River Street
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Eastbound
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Hall Drive at High Street
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Westbound
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Jacobs Lane at Main Street
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Southbound
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Jacobs Lane at intersection of Prospect Street
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Northbound
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Lincoln Street at Grove Street
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Southbound
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Mt. Blue Street at Old Oaken Bucket Road
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Southeastbound
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Neal Gate Street at Main Street
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Westbound
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Oak Street at intersection of Rte. 53 (Washington Street)
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Eastbound
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Old Oaken Bucket Road (east leg) at Central Street and Norwell
Avenue
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Southbound
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Parker Street at Main Street
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Southbound
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Pine Street at intersection of Circuit Street
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Northbound
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Pleasant Street at intersection of Circuit Street
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Eastbound
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Pleasant Street at intersection of South Street
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Westbound
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Prospect Street at Grove Street
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Southbound
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Prospect Street at intersection of Main Street
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Southbound
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Ridge Hill Road at Oak Street
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Northbound
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River Street at Main Street
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Northbound
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School Street at intersection of Grove Street
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Southeastbound
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School Street, yield at intersection of Grove Street
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Southwestbound
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School Street at Mount Blue Street
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Northbound
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South Street at Main Street
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Northbound
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Stetson Road at River Street, opposite Church Street
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Northwestbound
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Summer Street at Old Oaken Bucket Road
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Southbound
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Wildcat Lane at Pine Street
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Eastbound
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Wilder Road at intersection of Grove Street
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Northbound
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Winter Street at Main Street
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Southbound
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(3)
In accordance with Chapter 689 of the Acts of 1986, the Norwell Select
Board has voted to amend Norwell's Traffic Rules and Regulations by
adding the following stop signs. These signs will be in compliance
with the Manual on Uniform Traffic Control Devices.
[Amended 5-8-2021 ATM by Art. 11]
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Central Street/Mill Lane
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Circuit Street/Forest Street
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Circuit Street/Main Street
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Common Street/Common Avenue
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Common Street/Leonard Avenue
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Doris Avenue/Jacobs Trail
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Grove Street/Bowker Street
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Grove Street/Franklin Road
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Grove Street/Otis Hill Road
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Grove Street/Prospect Street
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Grove Street/Stanley Road
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Hall Drive/Christopher Road East from High Street
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Hall Drive/Christopher Road West from Rte. 53
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Hall Drive/Germaine Road
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High Street/Longwater Drive
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Lincoln Street/Grove Street
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Lincoln Street/Hemlock Drive
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Lincoln Street/Main Street
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Lincoln Street/Mt. Blue Street
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Longwater Drive/Longwater Circle
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Main Street/Arrowhead
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Main Street/Bowker Street
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Main Street/Bridge Street
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Main Street/Circuit Street
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Main Street/Cushing Hill
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Main Street/Harbor Lane
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Main Street/Homestead Farm Drive
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Main Street/Jacobs Lane
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Main Street/Lincoln Street
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Main Street/May Elm
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Main Street/Milton Lane
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Main Street/Old Meeting House
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Main Street/Paradise Drive
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Main Street/Roubound
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Main Street/Simon Hill
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Main Street/West Street
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Mt. Blue/Lincoln Street
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Mt. Blue/Old Oaken Bucket
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Mt. Blue/Old Oaken Bucket (right cor.)
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Mt. Hope/Mt. Blue Street
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Norwell Avenue/Trout Brook
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Norwell Avenue/Trout Brook Lane
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Oak Street/High Street
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Old Oaken Bucket/Cranberry Lane
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Old Oaken Bucket/Samuel Woodworth
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Parker Street/Winter Street
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Pine Street/Tara Drive
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Pleasant Street/Circuit Street
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Pleasant Street/E.A. Joseph Drive
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Pleasant Street/South Street
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Pleasant Street/Wildcat Lane
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Prospect Street/R.F. Higgins Drive
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Prospect Street/Walnut Road
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River Street/Chittenden Lane
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River Street/Common Avenue
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River Street/Forest Avenue
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River Street/Meadowbrook Road
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River Street/Pine Street
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River Street/Riverside Drive
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River Street/Stetson Road
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River Street/Stetson Shrine Lane
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River Street/Tara Drive
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River Street/Tiffany Road
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South Street/Main Street
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South Street/Mill Street
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South Street/School Drive
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Summer Street/Black Pond Hill Road
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Summer Street/First Parish Road
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Stetson Road/Barstow Avenue
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Stetson Road/Masthead Drive
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Stetson Road/Till Rock
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Tiffany Road/Church Street
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Tiffany Road/Common Street
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West Street/Dover Street
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West Street/River Street
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Winter Street/Cross Street
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Winter Street/Main Street
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B.
Operation at under and overpasses and at intersections with islands.
At any junction or crossing of ways where the roadway grades have
been separated and where the ways are connected by ramps and at any
intersection of ways in which there are traffic islands, drivers of
vehicles shall proceed only as indicated by official signs, signals
or markings.
C.
U-turn prohibited central fire station. No operator shall back or
turn a vehicle so as to proceed in the direction opposite to that
in which said vehicle is headed or traveling on Main Street (Route
123).
A.
Owner prima facie responsible for violations. If any vehicle is found
upon any street or highway in violation of any provisions of these
rules and orders and the identity of the driver cannot be determined,
the owner or the person in whose name such vehicle is registered shall
be held prima facie responsible for such violation.
B.
Penalties. Any person convicted of a violation of any rule, regulation
or order made hereunder, except as otherwise provided, shall be punished
by a fine not exceeding $20 for each offense.
A.
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.
B.
The provisions of these rules so far as they are the same in effect
as those of any valid existing rules, orders or regulations heretofore
made by the Select Board of Norwell relative to or in connection with
official signs, lights, markings, signal systems or devices shall
be construed as a continuation thereof, but all other existing rules,
orders and regulations so made for the regulation of vehicles are
hereby expressly repealed. This repeal, however, shall not affect
any punishment or penalty imposed or complaint or prosecution pending
at the time of the passage hereof for an offense committed under any
of the valid rules, orders or regulations hereby repealed.
[Amended 5-8-2021 ATM by Art. 11]
