[Adopted as §§ 14-1-2, 14-1-3, 14-1-13, 14-1-14 and 15-1-6 of the 1972 Code (Ch. 12, Art. I, of the 1990 Code of Ordinances)]
A. 
The following words, terms and phrases, when used in this chapter, shall have the meanings ascribed to them in this section, except where the context clearly indicates a different meaning:
COMMERCIAL VEHICLE
Any vehicle registered for commercial purposes and designed and used primarily for the transportation of goods, wares or merchandise.
CROSSWALK
That part of a roadway at an intersection included within the connections of the lateral lines of the sidewalks on opposite sides of the highway measured from the curb, or in the absence of curbs, from the edges of the traversable roadway or any portion of a roadway at an intersection or elsewhere distinctly indicated for pedestrian crossing by lines or other marking on the surface.
OFFICIAL CURB MARKING
That portion of the curbing, the painting of which has been authorized by the Traffic Engineer of the Town.
OFFICIAL STREET MARKING
Any painted line, legend, marking or marker of any description painted or placed upon any way which purports to direct or regulate traffic and which has been authorized by the Traffic Engineer of the Town.
PARKING or PARK
The stopping or standing of a vehicle on a roadway, whether occupied or not, otherwise than temporarily for the purpose of and while actually engaged in loading or unloading, or in obedience to a police officer or traffic signs or signals, or while making emergency repairs or, if disabled, while arrangements are being made to move such a vehicle.
SAFETY ZONE
The area or space officially set apart within a roadway for the exclusive use of pedestrians and which is protected or is so marked or indicated by adequate signs as to be plainly visible at all times while set apart as a safety zone.
VEHICLE
Every object or device propelled or drawn on wheels, rollers, runners or otherwise, but excepting road rollers, such vehicles as run only upon rails or tracks and light carriages for the conveyance of children and propelled by hand.
B. 
Whenever in this chapter words or phrases, other than the foregoing, which are defined in the State Motor Vehicle Code Act[1] are used, they shall have the meanings respectively ascribed to them in such Act.
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Editor's Note: See Title 31, Motor and Other Vehicles, of the General Laws.
No person shall carry or convey nor cause to be carried or conveyed in any street, highway, square or park any sand, gravel, loam, fill, ashes, bituminous coal, rubbish, bituminous asphalt or petroleum, and any vehicle containing such sand, gravel, loam, fill, ashes, bituminous coal, rubbish, bituminous asphalt, petroleum asphalt, asphalt products or other materials shall be closely covered so as to prevent their falling onto the streets and highways of the Town.
A person shall not willfully deface, injure, move, remove, obstruct or interfere with any official traffic sign, signal, marking or device.
The location of all traffic signs shall be under the direction of the Traffic Engineer and a person not so directed by him shall not place, maintain or display, upon or in view of any street, any unofficial sign, signal, marking or device which purports to be or is an imitation of or resembles an official traffic sign, signal, mark or device or which attempts to direct or regulate the movement of traffic or which hides from view any official sign or signal.