The following definitions shall be applicable for the purpose of this article:
A device, practice, or method used to manage stormwater runoff by controlling peak runoff rate, improving water quality and managing runoff volume.
The legislative classification of highways per state statute, RSA 229:5.
The City department which has the direct responsibility to operate, maintain and improve the public highway and sidewalk and related infrastructure of the City.
The technical standards promulgated by the Department which prescribe the materials, devices, construction methods, trade coordination, appurtenances and operations of highway, sidewalk and related infrastructure.
The Enhanced 911 (E911) Addressing Committee of the City of Rochester. A body with the purpose of ensuring the City adopts and maintains the state standards of addressing. This provides for a comprehensive and uniform system of naming and addressing throughout the City. Such body shall liaise with the State E911 Unit within the Division of Emergency Services and Communications.
A division of the United States Department of Transportation that specializes in highway transportation. The agency supports state and local governments in the design, construction, and maintenance of the nation's highway system.
As defined in RSA 229:5, Class IV highways shall consists of all public highways within the compact sections of the City and are portions of state highways for which the City is responsible to maintain.
As defined in RSA 229:5, Class V highways consist of public highways other than Class IV and Class VI which the City has a duty to maintain. Most public highways in the City are Class V.
A public highway in which the City has no statutory authority to maintain but does have statutory authority to regulate travel, excavation, disturbance, abutting property improvements, driveways and wight limits thereon. Class VI highways are created through a layout, a discontinuance subject to gates and bars, or by the City's failure to maintain and repair such highway in suitable condition for travel thereon for five successive years or more. (RSA 229:5, 231:21, 231:21-a, 231:45, 231:93, 231:191, 236:9 through 236:11, 236:13, 674:41).
A highway that is not a public way and may consist of driveways or easements on private property. The City shall regulate the portions of such highways within the public right-of-way but has no responsibility to maintain such a highway unless such a highway is declared an emergency lane per RSA 231:59-a. The City may require certain construction features of such highway to be maintained by its private owner(s) for emergency services.
The term used herein in reference to streets, roads and roadways and the term that is used to classify roads in accordance with RSA 229:5; as defined in RSA 229:1. City public highways are highways laid out in the mode prescribed per state statue, or roads which have been constructed for public travel over land which has been dedicated to public use and accepted by the City, or roads which have been used for public travel, other than travel to and from a toll bridge or ferry, for 20 years prior to January 1, 1968, including the bridges thereon. "Highway" shall include pavement and drainage features and may include sidewalks and pedestrian facilities.
A trade association of transportation professionals including transportation engineers, transportation planners, consultants, educators, technologists, and researchers which provides technical guidance to the Federal Highway Administration and communities.
For a highway or sidewalk is defined per RSA 231:90, as a case where it is not passable in any safe manner by those persons or vehicles permitted on such highway or sidewalk by state law or by any more stringent local ordinance or regulation: or there exists a safety hazard or impassibility which is not reasonably discoverable by a person who is traveling upon such highway at posted speeds or upon such sidewalk and in a manner which is reasonable and prudent as determined by the condition and stat or repair of the highway or sidewalk. An insufficiency shall not be the result of the City's failure to construct, maintain or repair it to the same standard as another highway or sidewalk, or to a level of service commensurate with its current level of public use.
Issued by the Federal Highway Administration, the purpose of the MUTCD is to set minimum standards for all traffic control devices used on U.S. roads and highways. Traffic control devices (TCD) include all road signs, highway markings, electronic traffic signals, railroad crossings, and roadway construction zone areas.
The primacy agency for the state which administers environmental regulation.
The state agency with statutory authority to plan, develop and maintain state highway and related infrastructure.
As defined in RSA 215-A:1 VI as any mechanically propelled vehicle used for pleasure of recreational purposes running on rubber tires, tracks, or cusion of air and dependent on the ground or surface for travel, or other unimproved terrain whether covered by ice or snow or not, where the operator sits in or on the vehicle. OHRVs do not include snowmobiles.
(RSAs cited herein generally are from Title XX Transportation, Chapter 231, Cities, Towns and Village District Highways, and Chapter 236, Highway Regulation, Protection and Control Regulations.
A public easement for travel placed across property which may be owned by a municipality or privately, for which usually contains a public highway. The easement is held in trust by the government for the use of the public.
As defined by RSA 215-C as any vehicles propelled by mechanical power that is designed to travel over ice or snow supported in part by skis, tracks or cleats. Such vehicles may be no more than 54 inches in width and no more than 1,200 pounds in weight.