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. A 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. A green signal alone shall mean "go."
Traffic facing the signal may proceed except the 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.
At intersections and crosswalks protected by
signal systems or police officers, the respective rights of vehicles
and pedestrians shall be exercised under the directions of the traffic
signals or police officers.
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 Town Manager
or Chief of Police, nor willfully deface, injure, move or interfere
with the same.
The Chief of Police shall keep and maintain or cause to be kept and maintained a schedule of each and every street intersecting a throughway which has been described or designated by the Town Manager and approved by order of the Selectmen. Said schedule shall be maintained by the Town Clerk and be available for inspection at any reasonable hour. At or near the property line of the through street, there shall be erected an appropriate sign or device bearing the word "stop," the same to be located in such a position at the curb line and to be provided with letters of a size to be clearly legible a distance at least 100 feet along the street intersecting the throughway. Said schedule has been described in Schedule I (§
160-38), which is attached to and incorporated as a part of this chapter.