[Amended 4-16-2019 by Ord. No. 2019-06]
The Police Chief and/or the Director of Public Works, with the approval of the Town Council, shall place and maintain, or cause to be placed and maintained, traffic control signs, signals, and devices required or authorized under this chapter and may place and maintain such additional traffic control devices as he or she may deem necessary to regulate traffic under this chapter or under state law or to guide or warn traffic, including angle parking signs and markings, turning markers, and signs prohibiting left, right or U-turns, the location of which he or she is authorized to determine. All signs or signals required or authorized hereunder shall, so far as practical, be uniform as to type and location throughout the Town. All traffic control signs, signals and devices so erected and not inconsistent with the provisions of state law or this chapter shall be official traffic control devices.
The driver of any vehicle shall obey the instructions of any official traffic control device applicable to that vehicle and placed in accordance with this chapter, unless otherwise directed by a police officer, subject to the exceptions granted to the driver of an authorized emergency vehicle in this chapter. No provision of this chapter for which signs are required shall be enforced against an alleged violator if, at the time and place of the alleged violation, an official sign is not in proper position and sufficiently legible to be seen by an ordinarily observant person. Whenever a particular section does not state that signs are required, such section shall be effective even though no signs are erected or in place.
Whenever authorized signs are erected indicating that no right or left or U-turn is permitted, no driver of a vehicle shall disobey the directions of any such sign, and, when authorized marks or other indications are placed within an intersection indicating the course to be traveled by vehicles turning, no driver of a vehicle shall disobey the directions of any such indication.
[Amended 4-16-2019 by Ord. No. 2019-06]
The Police Chief and/or the Director of Public Works, with the approval of the Town Council, is hereby authorized:
A. 
Crosswalks. To designate and maintain, by appropriate devices, marks or lines upon the surface of the roadway, crosswalks at intersections where in his or her opinion there is particular danger to pedestrians crossing the roadway and at such other places as he or she may deem necessary.
B. 
Lanes. To mark lanes for parking and for traffic on street pavements at such places as he or she may deem advisable consistent with this chapter.
C. 
Bikeways. To designate and maintain bikeways by appropriate signs, devices, marks or lines upon the surface of the roadway.
A. 
Authority to erect.
(1) 
The Police Chief and/or the Director of Public Works shall place and maintain a stop sign at each location designated by this section.
[Amended 4-16-2019 by Ord. No. 2019-06]
(2) 
Every such sign shall bear the word "Stop" in letters not less than six inches in height and shall be located as near as practicable to the line of the crosswalk furthest from the intersection or, if no crosswalk exists, at the point nearest the intersecting roadway.
B. 
Stop required. When stop signs are erected as provided by this section, every driver of a vehicle shall stop such vehicle at such sign, or at a clearly marked stop line, before entering the intersection, except when directed to proceed by a police officer or traffic control signal.
C. 
Enter through street. After the driver of a vehicle has stopped in obedience to a stop sign at the entrance to a through street, such driver shall then proceed cautiously, yielding the right-of-way to vehicles which have entered the intersection from said through street or which are approaching so closely on such through street as to constitute an immediate hazard.
D. 
Stop signs or flashing red light locations. Stop signs or flashing red lights shall be erected and maintained on the entering street(s) at the following intersections in accordance with the following schedule:
Through Way
Entering Street
Atlantic Avenue
Elbow Lane
Cottage Street
Bridge Street
Federal Street
Greeley Avenue
High Street
Holland Avenue
Maple Avenue
Rodick Street
Cromwell Harbor Road
Glen Mary Road
Harden Farm Road
Kebo Street
Rockwood Avenue
Spring Street
Gilbert Farm Road
[Added 4-16-2019 by Ord. No. 2019-06]
Crooked Road
Knox Road
Old Norway Drive
Eagle Lake Road
Cleftstone Road
Cromwell Harbor Road
Cross Street
Forest Street
Norway Drive
Prospect Avenue
Public School Driveways
Woodbury Road
Eden Street
Bowles Avenue
Brewer Avenue
First Highbrook Road
Harbor Lane
Michigan Avenue
Prospect Avenue
Second Highbrook Road
West Street
[Added 5-17-2022 by Ord. No. 2022-02]
West Street Extension
[Added 5-17-2022 by Ord. No. 2022-02]
Federal Street
[Added 5-17-2022 by Ord. No. 2022-02]
Federal Street
First South Street
Des Isle Avenue
Forest Street
Pine Street
Glen Mary Road
Park Street
Ledgelawn Avenue
Cromwell Harbor Road
Park Street
[Added 8-15-2017 by Ord. No. 2017-04]
Pleasant Street
Waldron Road
Main Street
Albert Meadow
Atlantic Avenue
Center Street
Cottage Street
Cromwell Harbor Road
Derby Lane
Edgewood Street
Firefly Lane
First South Street
Hancock Street
Livingston Road
Mount Desert Street
Newport Drive
Newton Way
Oliver Street
Park Street
Pleasant Street
[Added 4-16-2019 by Ord. No. 2019-06]
Rodick Place
Schooner Head Road
Second South Street
[Repealed 4-16-2019 by Ord. No. 2019-06]
Stanwood Place
Stephens Lane
[Repealed 4-16-2019 by Ord. No. 2019-06]
The Field
[Repealed 4-16-2019 by Ord. No. 2019-06]
Wayman Lane
Mount Desert Street
Holland Avenue
Kennebec Street
Ledgelawn Avenue
Roberts Avenue
School Street
Shannon Way
[Amended 4-16-2019 by Ord. No. 2019-06]
Spring Street
Park Street
Ash Street
School Street
Route 3
Bayview Drive
Breakneck Road
Crooked Road
Hadley Point Road
Hamor Avenue
Knox Road
Ledgewood Road
Loring Street
Norway Drive (Old Route 3)
Sand Point Road
Gilbert Farm Road
[Added 4-16-2019 by Ord. No. 2019-06]
Routes 198 and 102
Indian Point Road
Knox Road
Cedar Street
[Added 4-16-2019 by Ord. No. 2019-06]
School Street
Edgewood Street
Pleasant Street
[Added 4-16-2019 by Ord. No. 2019-06]
Second South Street
[Repealed 4-16-2019 by Ord. No. 2019-06]
Slant Road
[Repealed 4-16-2019 by Ord. No. 2019-06]
Wescott Avenue
Waldron Road
Glen Mary Road
Shannon Road
Spring Street
West Street
Billings Avenue
Bridge Street
Holland Avenue
Main Street
Rodick Street
West Street Extension
Cleftstone Road
Prospect Avenue
Woodbury Road
E. 
Three-way stop intersections. Stop signs shall be erected at the following intersections on the enumerated entering streets:
School Street, Cedar Avenue, Newton Way
School Street, Pleasant Street, First South Street
Bloomfield Road (both sides), Champlain Road
[Amended 8-15-2006 by Ord. No. 2006-6]
Cleftstone Road, Highbrook Road at Howe's Park
[Added 8-15-2006 by Ord. No. 2006-6]
F. 
Four-way stop intersections. Stop signs shall be erected at the following intersections on the enumerated entering streets:
Ledgelawn Avenue, Lower Ledgelawn Avenue, Cromwell Harbor Road
Ledgelawn Avenue, Park Street
[Added 8-15-2017 by Ord. No. 2017-04]
A. 
Authority to erect.
(1) 
The Police Chief and/or the Director of Public Works shall place and maintain a yield sign at each location designated by this section.
[Amended 4-16-2019 by Ord. No. 2019-06]
(2) 
Every such sign shall bear the word "Yield" in letters not less than six inches in height. Signs shall be located as near as practicable to the line of the crosswalk furthest from the intersection or, if no crosswalk exists, at the point nearest the intersecting roadway.
B. 
Yield required. The driver of any vehicle approaching a yield sign shall slow down to a speed reasonable for existing conditions and shall yield the right-of-way to any vehicles in the intersection or approaching on another roadway so closely as to constitute a hazard during the time such driver is moving across or within the intersection.
C. 
Yield sign locations. Yield signs shall be erected and maintained on the entering streets at the following intersections in accordance with the following schedule:
Through Way
Entering Street
Crooked Road
Norway Drive
Eden Street
Mount Desert[1]
[1]
Editor's Note: The former entry for West Street, which immediately followed, was repealed 5-17-2022 by Ord. No. 2022-02.
A. 
Signs, signals and markings. No person shall place, maintain, or display upon or in view of any highway any unauthorized sign, signal, marking, or device which purports to be or is an imitation of or resembles an official traffic control device, or which attempts to direct the movement of traffic, or which hides from view or interferes with the effectiveness of any official traffic control device, and no person shall place on any official traffic control device any commercial advertising, nor shall any public authority permit upon any highway any traffic sign or signal bearing thereon any commercial advertising. This shall not be deemed to prohibit the erection upon private property adjacent to highways of signs giving useful directional information and of a type that cannot be mistaken for official signs.
B. 
Public nuisance. Every such prohibited sign, signal, or marking is hereby declared to be a public nuisance, and the authority having jurisdiction over the highway is hereby empowered to remove or cause to be removed each such sign, signal or marking without notice.