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. Use of the
masculine shall include the feminine and the neutral.
An area in the roadway set aside for the boarding of or alighting
from and the parking of buses.
That portion of a roadway ordinarily included within the
prolongation or connection of curb lines 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 any other markings or signs.
Vehicles of the Fire Department (Fire Patrol), 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 designated lane and identified as such by the head of
the Fire Department pursuant to Code of Massachusetts Regulations
527 CMR 10.03.[1]
Those parcels of land abutting Town ways dedicated to public
use and including those parcels of land sometimes referred to as the
"Town Green" and/or "Town Common," or a traffic island.
Parking spaces designated as such in compliance with Code
of Massachusetts Regulations 521 CMR 23.00.
The entire width between property lines of every way open
to the use of the public for purposes of travel.
The area embraced within the extensions of the lateral curblines,
or, if none, then the lateral boundary lines of intersecting ways
as defined in MGL c. 90, § 1, including divided ways. The
rules and regulations herein contained governing and restricting the
movement of vehicles at and near intersecting ways apply at any place
along any way at which drivers are to be controlled by traffic control
signals, whether or not such place is an intersection as herein defined.
A longitudinal division of a roadway into a strip of sufficient
width to accommodate the passage of a single line of vehicles.
Refers to the Massachusetts amendments to the Federal Manual
on Uniform Traffic Control Devices and the Standard Municipal Traffic
Code as adopted by the Massachusetts Department of Transportation.
All vehicles constructed and designed for propulsion by power
other than muscular power, including such vehicles when pulled or
towed by another motor vehicle, except railroad and railway cars.
Any West Springfield police officer, any State Police officer
assigned to the Registry of Motor Vehicles, and any special officer,
provided he has his badge of office displayed over his left breast
and upon his outer garment.
That portion of a curbing, the painting of which has been
authorized by the Town Council and which has the written approval
of 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 Board of Selectmen and
which has the written approval of the Massachusetts Department of
Transportation.
All signs, markings and devices, other than signals, not
inconsistent with these rules and orders, and which conform to the
standards prescribed by the Massachusetts Department of Transportation
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 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.
Any person afoot or riding on conveyance by human muscular
power, except bicycles or tricycles, as defined in MGL c. 90, § 18A.
Any intersection of ways with a railroad right-of-way.
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 counter-clockwise operation of a vehicle around an object
or structure.
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, having the written approval of the Massachusetts Department
of Transportation, where necessary.
An area in the roadway set aside for the accommodation of
commercial and transient vehicular traffic.
See "highway."
See "green."
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 Massachusetts Department of Transportation, whether
manually, electrically or mechanically operated, by which traffic
may be alternately directed to stop and proceed.
Any area or space set aside within a roadway, which is not
intended for use by vehicular traffic.
That portion of a public way containing a public sidewalk,
if any, and commonly planted with trees, shrubs, grass and other vegetation;
i.e., that portion of the way between the curbing and property line,
or between the equivalent edge of the pavement and the property line
where no curbing exists.
[1]
Editor's Note: See now the Massachusetts Comprehensive Fire
Safety Code, 527 CMR 1.00.
