[HISTORY: Adopted by the Town Meeting of the Town of Hull as Ch. 155 of the 1989 Code. Amendments noted where applicable.]
As used in this chapter, the following terms shall have the meanings indicated:
VEHICLE
Includes every description of carriage or other artificial contrivance used or capable of being used as a means of transportation, except as otherwise provided herein or by law.
No person having under his care or control any vehicle shall permit the same or the animal or animals attached thereto, if any, to stand on or across any public highway, street, public beach or sidewalk in such manner as to obstruct the same for an unnecessary length of time. No person shall stop with any vehicle in any public streets or near another vehicle if it obstructs public travel and no person shall stop with any vehicle upon or across any crossing in any street or highway in the Town.
No person, except drivers of ambulances, patrol wagons or members of the Fire Department responding to an alarm or a physician responding to an emergency call, shall ride a horse or drive a vehicle through a funeral procession.
A person driving or controlling a vehicle, in turning to the left into another street, shall pass to the right of and beyond the center of the intersecting street before turning.
[Amended 5-8-2021 ATM by Art. 6B]
No person shall establish or maintain over any sidewalk, street or highway any sign, sign board or advertising device without a permit from the Select Board Members; and no person shall affix such sign or device to any tree, tree guard, post, board or other object within the limits of such sidewalk, street or highway owned by the Town without obtaining a permit therefor from said Select Board Members, which permit may be revoked at any time.
No person shall establish or maintain any shade or awning over any part of a sidewalk or highway unless the same be secured and safely supported and unless the lowest part thereof be not less than seven feet above said sidewalk, street or highway.
[Amended 5-6-2024 ATM by Art. 35]
A. 
No person, including a Town official or agent, shall place or cause to be placed on or across any public or Town-controlled sidewalk, street, path, right of way, highway or beach or upon any of the common lands of the Town (each a "Right of Way"), any manure, gravel, dirt, ashes, lumber, wood (including telephone poles), buildings, carriages, boxes, barrels, stones, coal or any rubbish or other things (each an "Obstruction"); provided that a Town official or agent may place an Obstructions on or across a Right of Way so long as such placement (i) is strictly necessary to ensure public safety, (ii) is temporary (and not seasonal), and (iii) is designed to prevent all access to the Right of Way by persons or vehicles other than those strictly necessary to achieve the stated public safety objective.
B. 
Any person violating the provisions of this section shall be liable to a fine of not more than $50 for each offense.
A. 
No person shall break or dig up any sidewalk, street or highway or place thereon any staging or other temporary structure or move any building in or along the same without a written permit from the Select Board. Any permit issued hereunder shall be in force for such time only as the Board may specify and shall be subject to such conditions as it may prescribe, and in every case shall be upon condition that during the whole of every night from sunset to sunrise lighted lanterns and proper barriers shall be so placed as to secure travelers from danger.
[Amended 5-8-2021 ATM by Art. 6B]
B. 
A person having such a permit shall restore the sidewalk, street or highway to its original condition or to a condition satisfactory to the Select Board. Said Select Board Members shall have the right to revoke said permit at any time and may require a bond either before the work is commenced or during its progress to ensure its proper performance.
[Amended 5-8-2021 ATM by Art. 6B]
C. 
Any person violating this section shall be liable for a fine of not more than $300 for each offense.
[Added 10-1-1985 STM by Art. 14]
No person shall knowingly suffer or permit any water or other liquid substance to run or be discharged from any building owned by him or under his control on to or across any curbing or finished sidewalk, except that any person may wash, with water from hose or pipe, windows or other parts of the building on private property without danger to public safety.
[Added 3-7-1966; amended 5-8-2021 ATM by Art. 6B]
No person shall coast by sled, skateboard or other similar device upon or across any sidewalk, street or highway, except at such times or such places as may from time to time be designated by the Select Board.
All petitions from persons or corporations for permission to erect poles in the public ways shall state therein an accurate description of the location prayed for and be accompanied by proper plans defining the same, together with the location of all buildings adjacent to the highway, all poles then standing on the way with the ownership thereof, and all shade trees and hydrants, all within a space of 300 feet of the location desired in either direction of said way.
No person shall permit a tree, branch thereof, hedge, bush or shrubbery growing on his land to extend over or overhang any street, sidewalk or highway so as to interfere with the free and full use of such street, sidewalk or highway.
[Amended 5-8-2021 ATM by Art. 6B]
The Select Board Members may supply any property owner of the Town of Hull or the officer or agent of any such property owner, with the lines and grades for sidewalks and streets upon the first laying out, acceptance or relocation of the same. After such time, however, there shall be charged for such data a fee to be fixed and regulated by the Select Board Members and said fee so called shall be turned over to the Town Treasurer.
[Added 3-1-1965; amended 4-11-1988 ATM by Art. 26]
To authorize the Superintendent of Streets or other officer having charge of ways, for the purpose of removing or plowing snow or removing ice from any way, to remove or cause to be removed to some convenient place, including in such term a public garage, any vehicle interfering with such work, only after due notice given at the residence at which the vehicle is parked, and for imposing liability for the cost of such removal, not to exceed the maximum fees established by the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, Department of Public Utilities, and the fees established by the Traffic Commissioners for Municipal Towing Services provided by private contractors; and of the storage of such vehicle, if any, resulting therefrom, upon the owner of such vehicle.
[Added 3-1-1965]
A. 
No person shall park or otherwise leave a vehicle unattended on the street in front of a dwelling house in the residential area of the Town, except by the occupants thereof or their guests, provided that notice of said prohibition is given by the use of official regulation traffic signs erected by authority of the Police Department.
B. 
No person shall park or otherwise leave a vehicle unattended within the limits of a private way so as to impede or obstruct the means of access for fire apparatus to any part of a tenement house as defined by MGL c. 145, § 2.
[Added 11-27-1989 STM by Art. 16]
A. 
Any person body that has lawful control of a public or private way or of improved or enclosed property used as off-street parking areas for businesses, shopping malls, theaters, auditoriums, sporting or recreational facilities, cultural centers, residential dwellings, or for any other place where the public has a right of access as invitees or licensees, shall reserve parking spaces in said off-street parking areas for any vehicle owned and operated by a disabled veteran or handicapped person whose vehicle bears the distinguishing license plate authorized by said section 2 of said Chapter 90 or for any vehicle transporting a handicapped person and displaying the special identification plate authorized by section 2 of Chapter 90 or for any vehicle bearing the official identification of a handicapped person issued by any other state or any Canadian Province, (sic) according to the following formula: If the number of parking spaces in any such area is more than 15 but not more than 25, one parking space; more than 25 but not more than 40, 5% of such spaces but not less than two; more than 40 but not more than 100, 4% of such spaces but not less than three; more than 100 but not more than 200, 3% of such spaces but not less than four; more than 200 but not more than 500, 2% of such spaces but not less than six; more than 500 but not more than 1,000, 1 1/2% of such spaces but not less than 10; more than 1,000 but not more than 2,000, 1% of such spaces but not less than 15; more than 2,000 but less than 5,000, 3/4 of 1% of such spaces but not less than 20; and more than 5,000, 1/2 of 1% of such spaces but not less than 30.
B. 
Parking spaces designated as reserved under the provisions of paragraph A shall be identified by the use of above grade signs with white lettering against a blue background and shall bear the words "Handicapped Parking: Special Plate Required. Unauthorized Vehicles May be Removed at Owner's Expense"; shall be as near as possible to a building entrance or walkway; shall be adjacent to curb ramps or other unobstructed methods permitting sidewalk access to a handicapped person; and shall be 12 feet wide or two eight-foot-wide areas with four feet of cross hatch between them.
C. 
Any person or body violating the provisions of this article shall be liable to a fine of not more than $300 for each offense.
[Added 4-11-1994 ATM by Art. 27]
A. 
The Traffic Commissioners, after a public hearing, may order the discontinuance of flashing lights on any billboard, sign or other advertising device which, in its opinion, is so situated as to hinder the proper operation of a motor vehicle by distracting the operator's attention. Whoever fails to comply with said order shall be punished by a fine of $50 for each day the order is not complied with. The provisions of this section shall not be construed so as to prohibit the display of time, weather or other such information. Nothing in this section shall be construed to limit the powers granted to the Outdoor Advertising Board or the Town under the provisions of section 29 of Chapter 93 of the Massachusetts General Laws.
B. 
It shall be unlawful for any person to place or maintain or to display upon or in view of any street any unofficial traffic sign, signal, marking or device of which purports to be or is an imitation of or resembles an official traffic sign, signal, marking or device, which attempts to direct the movement of traffic or which hides from view any official sign, signal, marking or device or which interferes with the effectiveness of any official traffic sign, signal, marking or device. The Police Department is hereby empowered to remove every such prohibited sign, signal, marking or device and may cause it to be removed without notice.
C. 
Sub-sections A and B of this new section of Chapter 359 may also be enforced by non-criminal disposition or by civil action, without limiting any other method of enforcement.