A.
BUSINESS DISTRICT
BUS STATION
DRIVER
HOLIDAYS
HORSE
INDIVIDUAL PARKING SPACE
LOADING ZONE
MECHANICAL PARKING TIME INDICATOR or PARKING METER
PEDESTRIAN
PERSON
SAFETY ZONE
SHALL MEAN AND INCLUDE
STREET
VEHICLE
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:
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.
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.
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.
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)]
Includes domestic animals.
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.
That part of any way reserved for the exclusive use of vehicles
engaged in transportation.
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.
Any person afoot.
Shall mean and include any individual, firm, copartnership,
association or corporation.
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.
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.
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.
Any device in, upon or by which any person or property is
or may be transported upon a highway, except baby carriages.
[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]
