[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:
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 charge of a vehicle in any street shall neglect
or refuse to stop the same or to place the same when stopped, as directed
by a police officer.
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 shall tie a horse or any other animal to any shade
tree bordering on the public highway or owned by 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.
No person shall erect, set up or maintain any fence, portico,
platform or door stop extending into or on any sidewalk, street or
highway.
[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.
A.
No person other than a Town agent shall place or cause to be placed
on any public sidewalk, street, highway or beach or upon any of the
common lands of the Town any manure, gravel, dirt, ashes, lumber,
wood, buildings, carriages, boxes, barrels, stones, coal or any rubbish
or other things.
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]
No person shall build or construct a private sidewalk or a public
or private way without a permit issued by the Select Board.
[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.
No person shall throw or place upon any sidewalk or street crossing
any banana skin or orange skin or other slippery substance.
[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.
Any person violating any provision of this chapter for which
no other penalty is provided shall be liable to a maximum fine of
$20.
