A.
Any person violating any provision of any rule, regulation
or order regulating the parking of motor vehicles made by anybody
authorized to make the same shall be dealt with as provided in MGL
c. 90, § 20A, or any Acts in amendment thereof or in addition
thereto, and any person violating any of the rules and regulations
applicable to state highways made by the Department of Public Works,
Commonwealth of Massachusetts,[1] under authority of MGL c. 85, § 2, and Acts
in amendment thereof and in addition thereto, shall be subject to
the penalty provided in said rules and regulations.
[1]
Editor's Note: Now the Department of Transportation.
B.
Any person convicted of a violation of any other rule,
regulation or order made hereunder, except as otherwise provided,
shall be punished by a fine not exceeding $20 for each offense.
A.
These rules are adopted with the intent that each
of them shall have force and effect separately and independently of
every other, except insofar as by express reference or necessary implication
any rule or any part of a rule is made dependent upon another rule
or part hereof.
B.
All official signs, lights, markings, signal systems
or devices erected or installed under prior rules or regulations and
necessary to the enforcement of these regulations shall be deemed
to have been lawfully erected or installed hereunder, provided that
the same were erected or installed with the permission and approval
of the Department of Public Works of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts,[1] and insofar as the same are necessary as aforesaid for
the enforcement of these regulations, they shall be deemed continuing
hereunder, but in all other respects, all prior rules, orders and
regulations made by the Select Board for the regulation of vehicles
are hereby expressly repealed. This repeal, however, shall not affect
any punishment or penalty imposed or any complaint or prosecution
pending at the time of the passage hereof for any offense committed
under said prior rules, orders or regulations hereby repealed, nor
shall said repeal be effective unless and until these rules and regulations
have been approved and published as required by law.
[1]
Editor's Note: Now the Department of Transportation.
If any section, subsection, sentence, clause
or phrase of these rules and orders is for any reason unconstitutional,
such decisions shall not affect the validity of the remaining portion
of these rules and orders. The Select Board hereby declare that it
would have passed these regulations and each section, subsection,
sentence, clause or phrase thereof, irrespective of the fact that
any one or more sections, subsections, sentences, clauses or phrases
is declared unconstitutional.
If any vehicle is found upon any street or highway
in violation of any provisions of these rules and orders and the identity
of the driver cannot be determined, the owner or the person in whose
name such vehicle is registered shall be held prima facie responsible
for such violations.
