A.
The City Council is hereby authorized and, as to those
signs and signals required hereunder, it shall be its duty to place
and maintain or cause to be placed and maintained all official traffic
signs, signals, markings and safety zones. All signs, signals, markings
and safety zones shall conform to the standards as prescribed by the
Department of Public Works of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
[Amended 9-1-2009]
B.
Sections 260-3, 260-30, 260-17K and 260-18 to 260-23, inclusive, relating to parking, and §§ 260-45 and 260-46, relating to turning movements, shall be effective only during such time as official signs are erected and maintained in each block designating the provisions of such sections and located so as to be easily visible to approaching drivers.
C.
Sections relating to one-way streets shall be effective
only during such time as a sufficient number of official signs are
erected and maintained at each of the exits for each one-way street
so that at least one sign will be clearly visible for a distance of
at least 75 feet to drivers approaching such an exit.
D.
Regulations relating to commercial vehicle parking
shall be effective only during such time as a sufficient number of
official signs are erected and maintained at each of the main arterial
entrances to the City.
It shall be unlawful for any person to place
or maintain or to display upon or in view of any street any unofficial
sign, signal, marking or device which purports to be or is an imitation
of or resembles an official traffic sign, signal, marking or device
or which attempts to direct the movement of traffic or which hides
from view any official sign or signal. The Chief of Police is hereby
empowered to remove every such prohibited sign, signal, marking or
device or cause it to be removed without notice.
Any person who willfully defaces, injures, moves,
obstructs or interferes with any official traffic sign, signal or
marking shall be liable to a penalty not exceeding $20 for each offense.
No driver of any vehicle shall disobey the instruction
of any official traffic control signal, sign, marking, marker or legend
unless otherwise directed by a police officer.
[Amended 9-1-2009]
For the purposes of trial, the City Council
may make temporary rules regulating traffic or test under actual conditions
traffic signs, markings or other devices. No such experimental rule
regulating traffic shall remain in effect for a period of time longer
than 30 days.
