A. 
For the purpose of this chapter, the following terms, phrases, words and their derivatives shall have the meanings herein given, unless the context shall deem otherwise:
BUSINESS DISTRICT
All ways adjacent to a section 300 feet or more in length of which 50% or more is occupied by buildings used for business purposes.
BUS STATION
A location assigned or granted to a passenger-carrying motor vehicle engaged in the transportation of passengers for hire on regular routes within or beyond the City limits, which location is used for receiving and delivering passengers.
DRIVER
Shall mean and include every individual who shall operate a vehicle as the owner thereof or as the agent, employee or permittee of the owner or who is in actual physical control of a vehicle.
HOLIDAYS
Thanksgiving Day; New Year's Day, January 1; Martin Luther King Jr. Day, the third Monday in January; Washington's birthday, the third Monday in February; Patriots Day, the third Monday in April; Memorial Day, the last Monday in May, but if the federal government designates May 30 as the date for observance of Memorial Day, the 30th of May; Juneteenth, June 19; the Fourth of July; Labor Day, the first Monday of September; Indigenous Peoples Day, the second Monday in October; Veterans Day, November 11; and Christmas Day.
[Amended 3-22-1976; at time of adoption of Code (see Ch. 1, General Provisions, Art. I)]
HORSE
Includes domestic animals.
INDIVIDUAL PARKING SPACE
A portion of the paved surface of the street of sufficient length and depth from the sidewalk curb to accommodate a vehicle to be parked as shall be specified and marked off by the City Manager of the City of Bangor.
LOADING ZONE
That part of any way reserved for the exclusive use of vehicles engaged in transportation.
MECHANICAL PARKING TIME INDICATOR or PARKING METER
A device or devices which shall indicate thereon the length of time which a vehicle may be parked in a particular place, which shall have as a part thereof a receptacle or chamber for receiving and storing coins of United States money, a slot or place in which said coin may be deposited and also brief instructions as to their operation.
PEDESTRIAN
Any person afoot.
PERSON
Shall mean and include any individual, firm, copartnership, association or corporation.
SAFETY ZONE
That part of any way reserved for the exclusive use of pedestrians by marks on the surface of the roadway or by such other markings or contrivances as the Chief of Police may deem suitable.
SHALL MEAN AND INCLUDE
The words "shall mean and include," when used in a definition in this chapter, shall not be deemed to exclude other things otherwise within the meaning of the term defined.
STREET
Any public street, avenue, road, alley, highway, lane, path or other public place located in the City of Bangor and established for the use of vehicles.
VEHICLE
Any device in, upon or by which any person or property is or may be transported upon a highway, except baby carriages.
B. 
Interpreting words according to the Maine motor vehicle laws. Unless the context otherwise indicates, all other words and terms shall be construed in accordance with the provisions of the motor vehicle laws of Maine.[1]
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Editor's Note: See M.R.S.A. Title 29-A.
[Amended at time of adoption of Code (see Ch. 1, General Provisions, Art. I)]
Except where another penalty is prescribed, whoever violates any provision of this chapter shall forfeit and pay a sum not less than $25 nor more than $500, and each day on which such violations continue shall constitute a separate offense.
All regulations of this chapter are subject to the provision that all persons must at all times comply with any direction, by voice or hand, of any member of the police force as to stopping, placing, starting, approaching or departing from any place and the manner of taking up or setting down passengers or loading or unloading goods at any place.
The City Manager and Chief of Police shall determine and designate the character of all official warning and direction signs and signals, the Chief of Police shall place and maintain the same, and all signs herein authorized and required for a particular purpose shall be uniform.
The Chief of Police shall establish safety zones and crosswalks wherever in their opinion there is particular danger to pedestrians and designate and maintain the same by appropriate devices, marks or white lines upon the surface of the roadway. When crosswalks are established and maintained outside of a business district, the Chief of Police shall, by appropriate devices, marks or white lines, mark and maintain along the surface of the roadway an arrow, not less than 12 inches wide in the shaft and not less than 12 feet long, pointing in the direction of the crosswalk, together with the word "slow" in block letters not less than 12 inches high and not less than four inches wide, 50 feet distant from each crosswalk so established.
Whenever traffic is controlled by mechanical or electric traffic control signals exhibiting different colored lights successively, one at a time, or together, or with arrows, the following colors shall be used, and said light or lights shall indicate and apply to drivers of vehicles and pedestrians as follows:
A. 
Red signal. Red signal alone shall mean "stop." Traffic facing the signal shall stop before entering the intersection and remain standing until the green or "go" signal is shown alone.
B. 
Green signal. Green signal alone shall mean "go." Traffic facing the signal may proceed, except that vehicle drivers shall yield the right-of-way to pedestrians and vehicles lawfully within a crosswalk or intersection at the time when such signal was exhibited.
C. 
Amber signal. An amber signal alone shall indicate a clearing sequence allowing traffic within an intersection to proceed through the intersection but warning traffic approaching the intersection not to enter said intersection.
[Amended 11-23-1964]
D. 
Green arrow. A green arrow shall indicate that the traffic facing the signal may proceed in the direction that the arrow is pointing.
E. 
Amber and red signals together. Amber and red signals together shall indicate a pedestrian walk period, and no traffic shall enter or move within an intersection against such signals.
At intersections and crosswalks protected by signal systems or police officers, the respective rights of vehicles and pedestrians shall be exercised under the direction of the traffic signals or police officers.
A. 
No person shall place, maintain or display any device, other than an official warning or direction sign or signal erected under authorized authority, upon or in view of a street which purports to be or is an imitation of or resembles an official warning or direction sign or signal or which attempts to direct the movements of traffic or the actions of drivers, and any such prohibited device shall be a public nuisance, and the Chief of Police may remove it or cause it to be removed without notice.
B. 
Public utilities or City departments restricted from placing signs. No public utility or City department shall erect, place or maintain any barrier or sign unless of a type first approved by the City Manager or Chief of Police.
No person shall violate the instructions of any mechanical or electrical traffic signal, traffic sign, marks upon the street, barriers or signs authorized or approved by the City Manager or Chief of Police or willfully deface, injure, move or interfere with the same.
The Chief of Police shall keep and maintain, or cause to be kept and maintained, at each and every street intersecting a through way, at or near the property line of the through street, an appropriate sign or device bearing the word "stop," the same to be located in such a position at the curbline and to be provided with letters of a size to be clearly legible from a distance at least 100 feet along the street intersecting the through way.
A. 
Keep within crosswalk. Pedestrians shall keep within a crosswalk while crossing a public way within a business district.
B. 
Crossing outside of crosswalk. Pedestrians shall cross all public ways not within a business district at right angles to the curb and when not using a crosswalk shall yield the right-of-way to all vehicles.
C. 
Soliciting rides. Pedestrians shall not stand in any public way for the purpose of or while soliciting a ride from the driver of any private vehicle.
D. 
Riding vehicles without consent of driver. No person shall steal a ride upon a vehicle or ride upon the rear of any vehicle without the consent of the driver.
E. 
Travel on pleasure contrivances attached to moving vehicles prohibited. No person shall travel upon any public way for the purposes of recreation by means of any pleasure contrivance attached to a moving vehicle.
F. 
Vehicle solicitation. No person, while upon any street or the right-of-way of any street, shall signal a moving vehicle, stop a vehicle or accost an occupant of a vehicle stopped on a public way for purposes of solicitation, such as seeking a contribution or donation, signature, or in order to sell merchandise or a ticket of admission to an event or public gathering.
[Added 6-10-2013 by Ord. No. 13-183]