For the purpose of these ordinances, rules, and orders, the
words and phrases used herein shall have the following meanings, except
in those instances where the context clearly indicates a different
meaning:
An area in the roadway set aside for the boarding of or alighting
from buses.
Any vehicle being used in the transportation of goods, wares
or merchandise for commercial purposes.
Any commercial vehicle 2Â 1/2 tons of capacity or over.
That portion of a roadway ordinarily included within the
prolongation or continuation of curblines and property lines at intersections
or at a portion of the roadway clearly indicated for pedestrian crossing
by lines on the road surface or by other markings or signs.
Vehicles of the Fire Department (Fire Patrol), police vehicles,
ambulances and emergency vehicles of the federal, state and municipal
departments or public service corporations when said vehicles are
responding to an emergency in relation to the public safety.
Any procession of mourners properly identified as such accompanying
the remains of a human body.
A longitudinal division of a roadway into a strip of sufficient
width to accommodate the passage of a single line of vehicles.
Every vehicle which is self-propelled and every vehicle which
is propelled by electric power from overhead wires but not operated
on rails.
Any police officer of the City of Gardner or any officer
authorized to direct or regulate traffic or to make arrests for the
violation of traffic regulations.
That portion of a curbing, the painting of which has been
authorized by the Chief of Police and which has the written approval
of the Department of Transportation, Highway Division, of the Commonwealth
of Massachusetts.[1]
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 the written approval of the Department of Transportation,
Highway Division, of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
All signals conforming to the standards as prescribed by
the Department of Transportation, Highway Division, of the Commonwealth
of Massachusetts, not inconsistent with these rules and orders, placed
or erected by authority of a public body or official having jurisdiction
for the purpose of directing or warning traffic.
All signs, markings, devices or other signals, not inconsistent
with these rules and orders, which conform to the standards as prescribed
by the Department of Transportation, Highway Division, of the Commonwealth
of Massachusetts and are placed or erected by the authority of a public
body or official having jurisdiction for the purpose of guiding, directing,
warning or regulating traffic.
The standing of a vehicle, whether occupied or not, otherwise
than temporarily for the purpose of and while actually engaged in
loading or unloading or in obedience to an officer or traffic signs
or signals or while making emergency repairs or, if disabled, while
arrangements are being made to move such vehicle.
Any mechanical device, not inconsistent with the provisions
of this regulation, placed or erected on any public way within the
City for the regulation of parking. Each parking meter installed shall
indicate by proper legend the legal time established by this chapter
and when operated shall at all times indicate the balance of legal
parking time permitted and at the expiration of such period shall
indicate illegal or overtime parking.
Any space within a parking meter zone adjacent to a parking
meter which is duly assigned for the parking of a single vehicle by
lines painted on the surface of the street adjacent to or adjoining
such parking meter.
Includes any street or portion thereof upon which parking
of vehicles is permitted for a limited time subject to compliance
with the further provisions of this regulation.
Any person afoot or riding on a conveyance moved by human
power, except bicycles or tricycles.
Includes any individual, firm, copartnership, association
or corporation.
A person confined to a wheelchair; a person who, because
of the use of braces or crutches or because of the loss of a foot
or leg, or because of an arthritic, spastic, pulmonary or cardiac
condition, walks with difficulty or insecurity; a person who, due
to a brain, spinal or peripheral nerve injury, suffers from faulty
coordination or palsy; a person who is blind or whose sight is so
impaired that, functioning in a public area, he is insecure or exposed
to danger; a person whose hearing is so impaired that he is unable
to hear warning signals; or a person whose mobility, flexibility,
coordination, or perceptiveness is significantly reduced by aging.
[3-3-1980 by Ord. No. 719]
Any intersection of ways within a railroad right-of-way.
That portion of a street or highway between the regularly
established curblines or that part inclusive of shoulders improved
and intended to be used for vehicular traffic.
Counterclockwise operation of a vehicle around an object,
structure or island in the roadway.
Any area or space set aside within a roadway for the exclusive
use of pedestrians and which has been indicated by signs, lines, or
markings having the written approval of the Department of Transportation,
Highway Division, of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
An area in the roadway set aside for accommodation of commercial
and transient vehicular traffic.
That portion of a street or highway set aside for pedestrian
travel.
The entire width between property lines of every way open
to the use of the public for the purpose of travel.
An area in the roadway in which certain taxicabs are required
to park while waiting to be engaged.
Pedestrians, ridden or herded animals, vehicles, street cars
and other conveyances, either singly or together, while using any
street or highway for the purpose of travel.
Any area along any way, other than an intersecting way, at
which the drivers are to be controlled by traffic control signals.
Any device using colored lights which conform to the standards
as prescribed in the Department of Transportation, Highway Division,
of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, whether manually, electrically
or mechanically operated, by which traffic may be alternately directed
to stop and proceed.
Any area or space set aside within a roadway which is not
intended for use by vehicular traffic.
The turning of a vehicle by means of a continuous left turn
whereby the direction of such vehicle is reversed.
Every device in, upon, or by which a person or property is
or may be transported or drawn upon a street or highway, except devices
moved by human power, other than bicycles, or exclusively upon stationary
rails or tracks.
[1]
Editor's Note: Throughout this chapter, references to the
Massachusetts Department of Public Works were amended to the Highway
Division of the Massachusetts Department of Transportation 11-18-2013
by Ord. No. 1563.
