City of Westbrook, ME
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2024-02-05
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The Code
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Part II: General Legislation
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Chapter 310 Vehicles and Traffic
- The Charter
- Ch C Charter
- The Code
- Part I: Administrative Legislation
- Ch 1 General Provisions
- Ch 7 Boards, Commissions and Committees
- Ch 15 Defense and Indemnification
- Ch 21 Elections
- Ch 24 Emergency Management
- Ch 28 Ethics
- Ch 33 Finance
- Ch 36 Fire & Rescue Department
- Ch 52 Library
- Ch 57 Mayor and Council
- Ch 68 Officers and Employees
- Ch 80 Public Safety and Emergency Services
- Ch 90 Seal
- Part II: General Legislation
- Ch 103 Alarm Systems
- Ch 110 Animals
- Ch 117 Bicycles
- Ch 123 Building Construction
- Ch 131 Cable Television
- Ch 135 Cemeteries
- Ch 140 Development Assessment Districts
- Ch 144 Drug-Free Safe Zones
- Ch 153 Electrical Standards
- Ch 157 Events and Mass Gatherings
- Ch 162 Fire Protection and Prevention
- Ch 172 General Assistance
- Ch 184 Housing and Property Maintenance
- Ch 188 Human Rights
- Ch 205 Licenses and Permits
- Ch 216 Mobile Homes and Mobile Home Parks
- Ch 230 Parks and Recreation
- Ch 234 Peace and Good Order
- Ch 241 Plumbing
- Ch 245 Property Assessed Clean Energy
- Ch 246 Property Assessed Clean Energy, Commercial
- Ch 260 Sewers and Wastewater Treatment
- Ch 264 Sex Offenders
- Ch 272 Solid Waste
- Ch 278 Stormwater Management
- Ch 281 Streets and Sidewalks
- Ch 286 Taxation
- Ch 295 Trees and Forest
- Ch 307 Vehicles, All-Terrain
- Ch 310 Vehicles and Traffic
- Ch 310 Art I General Provisions
- § 310-1 Title.
- § 310-2 Definitions.
- § 310-3 General penalty.
- § 310-4 Compliance required.
- § 310-5 Obedience to police and fire officials required.
- § 310-6 Applicability to public employees.
- § 310-7 Police Department to maintain records.
- § 310-8 Authority of police, fire officials to enforce and require obedience to regulations.
- § 310-9 Pushcarts and animal-drawn vehicles.
- § 310-10 Police Department authorized to suggest measures to prevent accidents.
- § 310-11 Immediate notice of accidents required.
- § 310-12 True name required subsequent to notice to appear.
- § 310-13 Permit for parades, processions.
- § 310-14 Clinging to vehicles prohibited.
- § 310-15 Vehicle tow-away procedures.
- § 310-16 Payment for accident cleanup.
- Ch 310 Art II Operation
- § 310-17 Authority to install traffic control devices.
- § 310-18 Specifications for traffic control devices.
- § 310-19 Obedience to traffic control devices required.
- § 310-20 Relation of traffic control devices to enforcement.
- § 310-21 Presumption of legality of traffic control devices.
- § 310-22 Traffic control signal legend.
- § 310-23 Pedestrian control signals.
- § 310-24 Flashing signal legend.
- § 310-25 Lane direction control signal.
- § 310-26 Unauthorized, illegal signs, signals, and markings.
- § 310-27 Interference with traffic control devices, railroad signs, signals.
- § 310-28 Driving at immoderate speeds prohibited.
- § 310-29 Authority to declare and mark play streets.
- § 310-30 Driving on play streets.
- § 310-31 Authority to designate and maintain crosswalks and safety zones.
- § 310-32 Authority to mark traffic lanes; operation within lanes.
- § 310-33 Authority to designate temporary one-way streets.
- § 310-34 Schedule of one-way streets.
- § 310-35 Duty to place one-way street, alley signs; required locations.
- § 310-36 Obedience to one-way signs required.
- § 310-37 Chief's authority to restrict direction of movement during certain periods.
- § 310-38 Duty to place signs at through streets.
- § 310-39 Duty upon approaching yield and stop signs.
- § 310-40 Duty upon entering stop intersection.
- § 310-41 Duty upon entering yield intersection.
- § 310-42 Emerging from alley, driveway or building.
- § 310-43 Duties upon approach of railroad crossings.
- § 310-44 Authority to place turn markers at intersections; obedience required.
- § 310-45 Authority to place restricted turn signs at intersections.
- § 310-46 Schedule of prohibited turns.
- § 310-47 Obedience to restrictive turn signs required.
- § 310-48 Required position, method of turning at intersections.
- § 310-49 Turning around restricted.
- § 310-50 Obstructing traffic at intersection, crosswalk.
- § 310-51 Controlled-access roads; entrances, exits regulated.
- § 310-52 Driving on sidewalks.
- § 310-53 Limitations on backing.
- § 310-54 Privileges of authorized emergency vehicles.
- § 310-55 Duty on approach of authorized emergency vehicles.
- § 310-56 Following or parking near fire apparatus.
- § 310-57 Driving over fire hose.
- § 310-58 Driving through funeral or other processions.
- § 310-59 Driving in procession regulated.
- § 310-60 Vehicles in procession to be identified as such.
- § 310-61 Commercial vehicles prohibited from using certain streets, exception.
- § 310-62 Use of coasters, skates, etc., restricted.
- § 310-63 Riding on motorcycles.
- § 310-64 Regulation of motorized scooters, motorized skateboards and toy vehicles.
- § 310-65 Skateboards and roller skates prohibited on roadways, sidewalks and other public places.
- Ch 310 Art III Stopping, Standing and Parking
- § 310-66 Required close to curb.
- § 310-67 Authority to mark streets for angle parking; when angle parking prohibited.
- § 310-68 Obedience to angle-parking signs.
- § 310-69 Permits for loading, unloading at angle to curb.
- § 310-70 Lamps on parked vehicles.
- § 310-71 Vehicle actions prohibited in certain places.
- § 310-72 Prohibited and limited parking schedules.
- § 310-73 Parking on street not to obstruct traffic.
- § 310-74 Parking in alleys not to obstruct.
- § 310-75 Parking to advertise for sale, wash or repair prohibited; emergency exception.
- § 310-76 Authority to erect signs prohibiting parking adjacent to schools.
- § 310-77 Authorized to erect signs prohibiting parking on narrow streets.
- § 310-78 Authority to erect no-parking signs on left side of one-way streets.
- § 310-79 Chief to determine, designate probable hazardous areas, prohibit use.
- § 310-80 Use of passenger curb loading zones.
- § 310-81 Use of freight curb loading zone.
- § 310-82 Schedule of loading zones.
- § 310-83 Stopping, standing, parking of buses, taxicabs regulated.
- § 310-84 Restricted use of bus and taxicab stands.
- § 310-85 Standing or parking restricted or prohibited on certain streets and publicly owned property.
- § 310-86 Schedule of restricted and prohibited parking on publicly owned property.
- § 310-87 Winter parking regulated; obstructing snow removal; evidence of violation.
- § 310-88 Abandoned vehicles; removal.
- § 310-89 Opening and closing vehicle doors.
- § 310-90 Fines for parking violations.
- § 310-91 Violations and penalties.
- § 310-92 Chief authorized to waive payment for nonresidents.
- § 310-93 Parking limitation for commercial vehicles.
- § 310-94 Fire lanes.
- Ch 310 Art IV Pedestrians
- § 310-95 Passing gates or barriers at railroad crossings.
- Ch 310 Art V Parking Enforcement
- § 310-96 Purposes.
- § 310-97 Definitions.
- § 310-98 Parking scofflaw.
- § 310-99 Notice period.
- § 310-100 Immobilization and removal.
- § 310-101 Release of vehicles.
- § 310-102 Bond.
- § 310-103 Refund of booting and towing charges.
- § 310-104 Violations and penalties.
- Ch 310 Art VI Schedules
- § 310-105 Schedule I: One-Way Streets/Accessways.
- § 310-106 Schedule II: Parking Prohibited.
- § 310-107 Schedule III: Parking Prohibited in Winter Months.
- § 310-108 Schedule IV: Parking Limited.
- § 310-109 Schedule V: Loading Zones.
- § 310-110 Schedule VI: Prohibited Turns.
- § 310-111 Schedule VII: Commercial Vehicles Prohibited.
- § 310-112 Schedule VIII: Municipal Parking Lots.
- § 310-113 Schedule IX: Publicly Owned Property - Fire Lanes/Parking.
- § 310-114 Schedule X: Parking Fines.
- Ch 319 Weapons and Explosives
- Part III: Land Use Legislation
- Ch 335 Land Use
- Appendix
- Ch A400 Master Fee Schedule
- Ch A401 Master Fine Schedule
- Derivation Table
- Ch DT Derivation Table
- Disposition List
- Ch DL Disposition List
[HISTORY: Adopted by the City Council of the City of Westbrook 7-13-1965 (Ch. 31 of the 2007 Code and
Uniform Traffic Ordinance). Amendments noted where applicable.]
STATE LAW REFERENCES
Municipal authority generally — 30-A M.R.S.A.
§ 3001.
Municipal authority to lay out parking places — 23
M.R.S.A. § 2802.
Municipal authority to regulate traffic — 29-A
M.R.S.A. § 557.
Rules of the road — 29-A M.R.S.A. §§ 2051
to 2092.
Tampering with signs — 29-A M.R.S.A. § 2107.
Use of closed way — 29-A M.R.S.A. § 2108.
Stopping of traffic by hawkers and vendors — 29-A
M.R.S.A. § 2109.
Hitchhiking forbidden — 29-A M.R.S.A. § 2110.
