The location of all bus stops, taxicab stands
and service zones shall be specified by the Select Board, and in the
case of taxicab stands, the Chief of Police, with the approval of
the Select Board, shall designate who may use them as such.
Any person who willfully defaces, injures, moves,
obstructs or interferes with any official traffic sign, signal or
marking shall be liable to a penalty not exceeding $20 for each and
every offense.
No driver of any vehicle or of any streetcar
shall disobey the instructions of any official traffic control signal,
sign, marking, marker or legend unless otherwise directed by a police
officer.
A.
The Superintendent of Streets is hereby authorized
and, as to those signs and signals required hereunder, it shall be
his duty to place and maintain or cause to be placed and maintained
all official traffic signs, signals, markings and safety zones. All
signs, signals, markings and safety zones shall conform to the standards
as prescribed by the Department of Public Works of the Commonwealth
of Massachusetts.[1]
[1]
Editor's Note: Now the Department of Transportation.
B.
Sections 207-3 and 207-4 of Article II and §§ 207-14, 207-15, 207-18 and 207-19 to 207-21, inclusive, of Article V relating to parking and §§ 207-30 and 207-33 of Article VII concerning turning movements and § 207-42 of Article VII pertaining to exclusion shall be effective only during such time as official signs are erected and maintained in each block designating the provisions of such sections and located so as to be easily visible to approaching drivers.
C.
Sections relating to one-way streets shall be effective
only during such time as a sufficient number of official signs are
erected and maintained at the entrance and each of the exits for each
one-way street, so that at least one sign will be clearly visible
for a distance of at least 75 feet to drivers approaching such an
exit.
No person or corporation shall place, maintain
or display upon or in view of any street any unofficial device, sign,
signal, curb marking or street marking which purports to be or is
an imitation of or resembles an official traffic device, sign, signal,
curb marking or street marking or which attempts to direct the movement
of traffic or which hides from view any official sign, signal, marking
or device. The Chief of Police is hereby empowered to remove every
such prohibited sign, signal, marking or device, or cause it to be
removed, without notice.
For the purpose of trial, the Select Board may
make temporary rules regulating traffic or test under actual conditions
traffic signs, markings or other devices. No such experimental rules
relating to traffic shall remain in effect for a period longer than
30 days.
