The Town of Old Lyme, acting herein by authority
of Chapter 98 of the Connecticut General Statutes, hereby establishes
this article concerning traffic and parking regulations for the use
of traveled and parking areas at the public park known as "Hains Park,"
situated within the Town of Old Lyme.
Whenever in these regulations the following
terms are used, they shall have the meanings ascribed to them as herein
set forth and, without limiting their generality, shall mean:
PARKING AREA
That lot or area located, used and designated as the parking
lot within Hains Park together with two approaches for ingress and
egress from Connecticut Route 51.
PARKING, PARK or PARKED
The standing of a vehicle, whether occupied or not, upon
the parking area or right-of-way, otherwise than temporarily for the
purpose of, and while actually engaged in, receiving or discharging
passengers or in obedience to traffic regulations or traffic signs.
RIGHT-OF-WAY
A certain piece or parcel of land shown as a right-of-way
on a map titled "Plan of Wecklar Property, Rogers Lake, Showing Right-of-Way
Sept. 1936," scale one inch equals 40 feet, on file in the Town Clerk's
office in the Town of Old Lyme, and more particularly bounded and
described as follows: An L-shaped parcel over which easements to land
of abutting owners have been previously granted, containing about
1/2 acre, more or less, bounded as follows:
Beginning at a pipe on the northerly property
line of New Haven Turnpike, as shown on said map; thence running in
an easterly direction for a distance of 25 feet along the northerly
edge of said turnpike to a point; thence running in a northerly direction
for a distance of 160.4 feet to a pipe, as shown on said map; thence
running in a northwesterly direction a distance of 184.6 feet to a
pipe, as shown on said map; thence running in a southwesterly direction
for a distance of 25 feet, as shown on said map, to a point; thence
running in a southeasterly direction to a distance of 168 feet to
a pipe, as shown on said map; thence running in a southerly direction
for a distance of 150 feet to a pipe, as shown on said map, said pipe
marking the point or place of beginning.
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VEHICLE
Includes any device suitable for the conveyance of passengers
or materials or the drawing or other transportation of persons or
property, whether operated on wheels, runners, cushion of air between
it and the surface or by any other means, except those used exclusively
upon tracks.
No person shall operate a vehicle, nor shall
the owner of any vehicle allow such vehicle to be operated, at any
time or under any condition of grade, surface, speed, load, acceleration
or weather conditions in such a manner as to cause any unnecessary
or unusual noise.
No vehicle shall be parked in Hains Park other
than in the parking area. No vehicle shall be parked at any time or
in such a manner so as to interfere with a normal flow of traffic.
All vehicles shall have the right to use:
A. The parking area for parking and for ingress and egress
to Connecticut Route 51.
B. The right-of-way for purposes of ingress and egress
to or from Connecticut Route 51, but not for any other purpose.
The provisions of §§
161-3,
161-4 and
161-5 shall not apply to operators of maintenance vehicles of the State of Connecticut or the Town of Old Lyme so far as such exemption is necessary while such operators of equipment are engaged in maintenance operations on any highway, route, street or park.
Any owner or operator of any vehicle who violates §§
161-3 and
161-4, or who uses a vehicle in any manner for parking or driving in violation of §
161-5, shall be fined not more than $50 for each violation.