Town of Ashland, MA
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2023-05-09
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Division 3: Select Board Regulations
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Chapter 293 Vehicles and Traffic
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Article III Traffic Signs, Signals, Markings and Zones
- Act of Incorporation
- Ch Act Act of Incorporation
- Division 1: The Charter
- Ch CI Introduction
- Ch C Charter
- Division 2: Town Meeting Enactments
- Part I: Administrative Legislation
- Ch 1 General Provisions
- Ch 3 Affordable Housing Trust
- Ch 4 Aging, Council on
- Ch 9 Community Preservation Committee
- Ch 11 Emergency Management
- Ch 15 Collective Bargaining
- Ch 23 Finance Committee
- Ch 24 Finance, Department of
- Ch 26 Finances
- Ch 29 Health, Board of
- Ch 31 Historical Commission
- Ch 35 Legal Affairs
- Ch 42 Capital Improvement Committee
- Ch 52 (Reserved)
- Ch 54 Public Works, Department of
- Ch 63 Town Meetings
- Part II: General Legislation
- Ch 77 Alarm Systems
- Ch 80 Alcoholic Beverages
- Ch 81 Marijuana
- Ch 84 Amusement Devices
- Ch 87 Animal Control
- Ch 94 Boats: Regulation of Motor Boats, Etc.
- Ch 98 Building Construction
- Ch 102 Buildings, Numbering of
- Ch 106 Businesses
- Ch 125 Demolition Delay Bylaw for Historically or Architecturally Significant Buildings
- Ch 126 Donation Collection Bins
- Ch 132 Electrical Standards
- Ch 137 Explosives
- Ch 141 Fees
- Ch 145 Firearms
- Ch 148 Fire Lanes
- Ch 150 Fire Prevention
- Ch 153 Forest
- Ch 157 Gas
- Ch 164 Handicapped Parking
- Ch 178 Licensing
- Ch 181 Loitering
- Ch 183 Plastic Bag Reduction
- Ch 187 Marijuana or Tetrahydrocannabinol, Public Consumption of
- Ch 204 Nuisance Noise
- Ch 215 Peddling and Soliciting
- Ch 218 Plumbing
- Ch 227 Retail Establishments
- Ch 230 Secondhand Dealers
- Ch 235 Sewer Betterment Assessment
- Ch 242 Soil Removal
- Ch 245 Solid Waste
- Ch 247 Stormwater Management and Illicit Discharges and Connections
- Ch 249 Streets and Sidewalks
- Ch 252 Subdivision of Land
- Ch 256 Taxation
- Ch 260 Trapping
- Ch 265 Vehicles, Abandoned, Junked and Unregistered
- Ch 270 Water Use Restrictions
- Ch 280 Wetlands Protection
- Ch 281 Wild Mammals, Feeding or Baiting of
- Ch 281A (Reserved)
- Ch 281B Youth Athletic Activities
- Ch 282 Zoning
- Division 3: Select Board Regulations
- Ch 286 Regulation of Multi-Channel Service Providers
- Ch 293 Vehicles and Traffic
- Ch 293 Art III Traffic Signs, Signals, Markings and Zones
- § 293-14 Traffic signs and signals.
- § 293-15 Display of unauthorized signs, signals and markings prohibited.
- § 293-16 Location of bus stops, taxicab stands and service zones.
- § 293-17 Interference prohibited; violations and penalties.
- § 293-18 Obedience to traffic signs, signals and markings.
- § 293-19 Experimental regulations.
- § 293-20 through 293-21. (Reserved)
- Division 4: Board of Health
- Ch 295 Body Art
- Ch 296 Food Managers Certification
- Ch 297 Massage
- Ch 300 Septic Systems and Wells
- Ch 303 Sewage Disposal Systems
- Ch 304 Smoking
- Ch 305 Tobacco and Nicotine Delivery Product Sales
- Ch 306 Tobacco Sales Regulations
- Ch 307 Wastewater Treatment Plants
- Ch 312 Water Supplies, Private and Semipublic
- Ch 315 Fats, Oils and Grease
- Ch 316 Groundwater Use Restriction
- Division 5: Department of Public Works
- Ch 318 Cemeteries
- Ch 322 Parks and Recreation Areas
- Ch 326 Sewers
- Ch 330 Street Excavations
- Ch 334 Water
- Ch 338 Sanitation
- Division 6: Miscellaneous Regulations
- Ch 339 Forest
- Ch 339A Planning Department and Zoning Board of Appeals Fees
- Ch 340 (Reserved)
- Ch 343 Stormwater Management
- Ch 344 Subdivision of Land
- Ch 348 Wetlands Protection Regulations
- Appendix
- Ch A351 Acceptance of General Laws and Special Acts
- Ch A352 Fees
- Disposition List
- Ch DL Disposition List
A.
The Director of Public Works is hereby authorized
and, as to those signs and signals required hereunder, it shall be
his duty, to place or cause to be placed all official traffic signs,
signals, markings and safety zones. All official traffic signs, signals,
markings and safety zones shall be maintained by the Fire Department
and/or the Department of Public Works. All signs, signals, markings
and safety zones shall conform to the standards as prescribed by the
Massachusetts Highway Department.
[Amended 10-18-2000 ATM, Art. 14]
B.
Sections 293-8 and 293-9 of Article II and §§ 293-23 through 293-27 of Article IV, relating to parking shall be effective only during such time as a sufficient number of 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 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.
It shall be unlawful for any person to place
or maintain or to 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, marking or device
or which attempts to direct the movement of traffic or which hides
from view any official sign or signal. 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.
[Amended 11-20-2019 STM, Art. 13]
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 Select Board shall designate who may use
them as such.
No person shall willfully deface, injure, move,
obstruct or interfere with any official traffic sign, signal or marking,
and any person so doing shall be liable to a fine of $100 for each
and every offense.
No driver of any vehicle shall disobey the instructions
of any official traffic control signal, sign, painted curb, marking,
marker or legend unless otherwise directed by a police officer.
[Amended 11-20-2019 STM, Art. 13]
For purposes of trial, the Select Board may
make temporary rules regulating traffic, or test under actual conditions,
traffic signs, signals, markings or other devices. No such experimental
rules regulating traffic shall remain in effect for a period of time
longer than 30 days.
