For the purposes of this title, the following words and phrases
shall have the meanings respectively ascribed to them by this section,
except in those instances where the context clearly indicates a different
meaning:
means any area or space set aside for the accommodation of
an ambulance.
means every device propelled by human power upon which any
person may, having no more than two tandem wheels either of which
eighteen inches or more in diameter.
means a painted box placed at an intersection for a left
hand turns.
means a designated striped lane on street that is restricted
to vehicles. Lanes will be defined by white, colored or other appropriate
markings.
means a paved or dirt path specifically for the use of bicycles.
means a lane restricted and marked for buses only.
means an area in the roadway set aside for the boarding of
or alighting from, and the parking of, buses.
means any vehicle being used in the transportation of goods,
wares or merchandise for commercial purposes.
means any commercial vehicle of two and one-half tons' capacity
or over.
means that portion of a roadway ordinarily included within
the prolongation or connection of curblines 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 other markings
or signs.
means 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 departments.
means a roadway of sufficient width to accommodate the free
and accessible passage or placement of fire apparatus to a building
or premises in the event of fire.
means any procession of mourners properly identified as such
accompanying the remains of a human body.
means any area or space set aside for the accommodation of
the operator of a vehicle owned and driven by a disabled veteran or
handicapped person whose vehicle bears the distinctive number plates
authorized by Section 2 of Chapter 90 of the General Laws.
means the area embraced within the extensions of the lateral
curblines, or, if none, then the lateral boundary lines, of intersecting
ways as defined in Section 1 of Chapter 90, General Laws, including
divided ways. The rules and regulations of vehicles contained in this
title governing and restricting the movement of vehicles at or near
intersecting ways shall 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 defined in this section.
means a longitudinal division of a roadway into a strip of
sufficient width to accommodate the passage of a single line of vehicles.
means any officer of the police department, any investigator,
examiner or inspector of the registry of motor vehicles, or any constable
or special officer authorized to make arrest or serve process; provided,
that he or she is in uniform or displays his badge of office.
means that portion of a curbing, the painting of which has
been authorized by the chief of police and which has the written approval
of the Department of Public Works of the commonwealth.
means 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 chief of
police and which has the written approval of the Department of Public
Works of the commonwealth.
means all signals, conforming to the standards as prescribed
by the Department of Public Works of the commonwealth, not inconsistent
with this title, placed or erected by authority of a public body or
official having jurisdiction, for the purpose of directing or warning
traffic.
means all signs, markings and devices, other than signals,
not inconsistent with this title and which conform to the standards
prescribed by the Department of Public Works of the commonwealth,
and placed or erected by authority of a public body or official having
jurisdiction for the purpose of guiding, directing, warning or regulating
traffic.
means the standing of a motor 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.
means any mechanical device, not inconsistent with the provisions
of this chapter, and placed or erected on any public way within the
city for the regulation of parking. Each parking meter installed shall
indicate by proper legend the legal parking time established by this
title and when operated shall at all times indicate the balance of
legal parking time permitted and at the expiration of such period
shall indicate illegal or overtime parking.
means any space within a parking meter zone, adjacent to
a parking meter, which is duly designated for the parking of a single
vehicle by lines painted on the surfaces of the street adjacent to
or adjoining each parking meter.
means any person afoot or riding on a conveyance moved by
human power, except bicycles or tricycles.
means any intersection of ways with a railroad right-of-way.
means 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.
means 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 Department of
Public Works of the commonwealth.
means an area in the roadway set aside for the accommodation
of commercial and transient vehicular traffic.
means a shared use lane for bicyclists to use to ride with
vehicular traffic. This lane is marked with chevron arrows and a bicycle
stencil.
means that portion of a street or highway set aside for pedestrian
travel.
means the entire width between property lines of every way
open to the use of the public for purposes of travel.
means an area in the roadway in which certain taxicabs are
required to park while waiting to be engaged.
means pedestrians, ridden or herded animals, vehicles, trackless
trolleys or other conveyances either single or together while using
any street or highway for the purpose of travel.
means any area along any way, other than an intersecting
way, at which drivers are to be controlled by traffic-control signals.
means any device using colored lights which conforms to the
standards as prescribed by the Department of Public Works of the commonwealth,
whether manually, electrically or mechanically operated, by which
traffic may be alternately directed to stop and to proceed.
means any area or space set aside, within a roadway, which
is not intended for use by vehicular traffic.
means the turning of a vehicle by means of a continuous left
turn whereby the direction of such vehicle is reversed.
means every device in, upon or by which any person or property
is or may be transported or drawn upon a highway, including bicycles
when the provisions of this title are applicable to them, except other
devices moved by human power or used exclusively upon stationary rails
or tracks.
(Prior revision § 12-1; C.O. 78-783 (part); C.O. 780-994 (part); C.O. 79-232 (part); C.O. 83-52 § 48
(part); T.C.R. 2018-09, § 1, 4/19/2018; T.C.R. 2022-19, 8/18/2022)
For purposes of trial, the traffic commission may make temporary
rules regulating traffic, or test under actual conditions, traffic
signs, markings or other devices. No such emergency or experimental
rule shall remain in effect for a period of time longer than sixty
days.
(Prior revision § 12-11; C.O. 83-52 § 48 (part))
The provisions of this title shall not apply to operators actually
engaged in work upon a street or highway closed to travel or under
construction or repair, to officers when engaged in the performance
of public duties nor to drivers of emergency vehicles while operating
in an emergency and in performance of public duties when the nature
of the work of any of these necessitates a departure from any part
of this title. These exemptions shall not, however, protect the driver
of any vehicle from the consequences of a reckless disregard for the
safety of others.
(Prior revision § 12-12; C.O. 83-52 § 48 (part))
No person shall wilfully fail or refuse to comply with any lawful
order or direction of a police officer in regard to the direction,
control or regulation of traffic. Any persons acting in conformity
with any such order or direction shall be relieved from the observance
of any provision of this title with which the order or direction may
conflict.
(Prior revision § 12-13; C.O. 83-52 § 48 (part))
If any vehicle is found upon any street or highway in violation
of the provisions of this title and the identity of the driver cannot
be determined, the owner or the person in whose name such vehicle
is registered shall be held prima facie responsible for such violations.
(Prior revision § 12-15; C.O. 83-52 § 48 (part))
In accordance with the provisions of Chapter 40, Section 22F
of the Massachusetts General Laws, and notwithstanding the provisions
of Section 3A of Chapter 185 of the Acts of 1983, the parking clerk
of the city of Revere shall periodically prescribe a schedule of fines
and penalties, not exceeding the amount of each violation for parking
regulations as authorized by Section 20A½ of Chapter 90 of
the Massachusetts General Laws, subject to the approval of the Revere
Traffic Commission.
(Prior revision § 12-16 (part); T.C.R. 2007-10, § 1, 9/20/2007; C.O. 09-40d, § 1, 3/9/2009)
