This chapter shall be deemed and construed to be an exercise
of the police power of the City of Laconia in the State of New Hampshire
for the preservation and protection of public safety, and all of its
provisions shall be liberally construed with a view to the effectuation
of such purposes.
Nothing in this chapter shall apply to fire apparatus, police
cars, emergency management vehicles, funeral cars, ambulances or vehicles
or cars officially used in connection with any City department or
City business, but such vehicles shall at all times be operated and
otherwise handled in a reasonable manner under the circumstances.
For the purpose of this chapter, the following terms shall have
the meanings indicated:
The act of going aboard a vessel and the act of coming ashore
from vessel.
Every individual who shall operate a vehicle as the owner
thereof, as the agent, employee or permittee of the owner or is in
actual physical control of a vehicle.
Any mechanical device or meter, not inconsistent with this
chapter, placed or erected for the regulation of parking by authority
of this chapter. Each parking meter installed shall indicate the proper
legend and the legal parking time established by the City and, when
operated, shall at all times indicate the balance of legal parking
time and, at the expiration of such period, shall indicate illegal
or overtime parking.
Any space adjacent to a parking meter which is duly designated
for the parking of a single vehicle by lines painted or otherwise
durably marked on the curb or on the surface of the street adjacent
to the parking meters.
Any individual, firm, partnership, association or corporation.
Any public street, avenue, road, parking lot, alley, highway,
lane, path or other public place located in the City of Laconia and
established for use of vehicles.
Any signal, sign or marking that conforms in size, shape,
color and wording to those listed in the Uniform Traffic Control Manual
and utilized to regulate pedestrians when walking, and motor vehicles
when traveling and/or parking.
The Laconia City Council is hereby authorized to adopt traffic
regulations and to direct the installation and placement of traffic
control devices for the preservation and protection of public safety.
New Hampshire Revised Statutes Annotated Chapter 265, as amended,
is hereby adopted in its entirety as the rules of the road for the
City of Laconia.
A.
The driver of any vehicle shall obey the instructions of any traffic
control device applicable thereto placed as provided by law, unless
otherwise directed by a traffic or police officer, subject to the
exceptions granted the driver of an authorized emergency vehicle in
this chapter.
B.
No provision of this chapter for which signs are required shall be
enforced against an alleged violator if, at the time and place of
the alleged violation, an official sign is not in proper position
and sufficiently legible to be seen by an ordinarily observant person.
C.
Whenever traffic control devices are placed in position approximately
conforming to the requirements of this chapter, such devices shall
be presumed to have been so placed by the official act or direction
of lawful authority, unless the contrary shall be established by competent
evidence.
