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City of North Adams, MA
Berkshire County
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[Ord. of 9-23-2014; Ord. of 9-8-2020]
In accordance with the provisions of Section 18 of Chapter 90 of the General Laws the following special speed regulations are hereby established:
Route 2-eastbound traffic.
Beginning on West Main Street 100 feet east of the end of state highway; thence easterly one mile at 30 miles per hour; thence easterly 0.1 mile at 25 miles per hour ending at Phoenix Bridge, the total distance being one and one-tenth miles.
Route 2-westbound traffic.
Beginning on West Main Street at the Phoenix Bridge; thence westerly 0.1 mile at 25 miles per hour; thence westerly one mile at 30 miles per hour, and ending at the beginning of state highway, the total distance being 1.1 miles.
Massachusetts Avenue, City Highway-eastbound traffic.
Beginning at a point 200 feet from the Williamstown North Adams City line; thence easterly 1.7 miles at 30 miles per hour; thence easterly 0.5 miles at 25 miles per hour ending at the intersection of Massachusetts Avenue and Route 2, the total distance being 2.2 miles.
Massachusetts Avenue, City Highway-westbound traffic.
Beginning at the intersection of Massachusetts Avenue and Route 2 in North Adams; thence westerly 0.5 miles at 25 miles per hour; thence westerly 1.7 miles at 30 miles per hour to the North Adams Williamstown City line, the total distance being 2.2 miles.
Curran Memorial Highway-northbound traffic.
Beginning at a point 50 feet north of the Adams-North Adams town line; thence northerly 1.42 miles at 45 miles per hour; thence northerly 0.54 miles at 40 miles per hour; thence northerly 0.34 miles at 45 miles per hour, thence northerly 0.10 miles at 35 miles per hour ending at the junction of State Street and the Curran Memorial Highway; the total distance being 2.40 miles.
Curran Memorial Highway-southbound traffic.
Beginning at the junction of State Street and the Curran Memorial Highway, thence southerly 0.12 miles at 35 miles per hour; thence southerly 0.31 miles at 45 miles per hour; thence southerly 0.54 miles at 40 miles per hour; thence southerly 1.39 miles at 45, miles per hour ending at a point 150 feet north of the North Adams-Adams town line; the total distance being 2.36 miles.
East Main Street-eastbound traffic.
Beginning at the intersection of East Main Street and Church Street, thence easterly 1.2 miles at 25 miles per hour to the intersection of East Main Street and Massachusetts Route 2, excluding the designated school zone on East Main Street as defined in Chapter 13, Article IV, Section 13-26.1 entitled "School zones."
East Main Street-westbound traffic.
Beginning at the intersection of East Main Street and Massachusetts Route 2, thence westerly 1.2 miles at 25 miles per hour to the intersection of East Main Street and Church Street excluding the designated school zone on East Main Street as defined in Chapter 13, Article IV, Section 13-26.1 entitled "School zones."
Wheel Estates Mobile Home Park:
In accordance with the provisions of Chapter 90, Section 18 of the Massachusetts General Laws the following speed regulations are hereby established: 15 miles per hour.
The provisions of this section shall not, however, abrogate in sense, Section 14 of Chapter 90.
Except as otherwise provided by statute, any person convicted of violating any of the provisions of this regulation, or any amendment thereto, shall be subject to the penalties provided in Section 20 of Chapter 90.
[Ord. of 12-26-2001; Ord. of 12-27-2005; Ord. of 8-25-2015]
In accordance with the provisions of Section 17 of Chapter 90 of the General Laws, the following is hereby designated as a school zone:
Brayton Hill, 500 feet northerly and 500 feet westerly from the front door of Brayton School, 20 miles per hour, school days only between the hours of 7:00 a.m. and 4:00 p.m.
East Main Street, 500 feet easterly and 500 feet westerly from the driveway of Colgrove School, 20 miles per hour, school days only between the hours of 7:00 a.m. and 4:00 p.m.
Kemp Avenue, 500 feet northerly and 500 feet southerly from the Sullivan School driveway, 20 miles per hour, school days only between the hours of 7:00 a.m. and 4:00 p.m.
Phelps Avenue, 500 feet northerly and 500 feet southerly from the Greylock School driveway, 20 miles per hour, school days only between the hours of 7:00 a.m. and 4:00 p.m.
All fire apparatus returning from fires, and all other emergency vehicles when not on urgent call, shall obey traffic-control signals and official traffic signals and signs.
Upon approaching any intersection of ways, drivers of vehicles shall proceed only as indicated by official signals, signs or markings.
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State law reference: Right-of-way at intersecting ways, G. L., C. 89, § 8.
[Ord. of 4-26-1977, § 3; Ord. of 11-13-1979]
When approaching the following named intersections, the driver must turn his vehicle in the indicated direction, if the vehicle is in the following traffic lanes:
(1) 
Right lane must turn right:
(a) 
Marshall Street and St. Anthony Drive. Vehicle traveling north on Marshall Street and intending to turn east on St. Anthony Drive.
(b) 
Main Street and Hadley Overpass. Vehicles traveling east on Main Street and intending to turn south on Hadley Overpass.
(c) 
Main Street and Marshall Street. Vehicles traveling west on Main Street and intending to turn north on Marshall Street.
(d) 
Main Street and Marshall Street. Vehicles traveling north on Hadley Overpass and intending to turn east on Main Street.
(e) 
Main Street and Marshall Street. Vehicles traveling south on Marshall Street and intending to turn west on West Main Street.
(f) 
Main Street and American Legion Drive. Vehicles traveling east on Main Street and intending to turn south on American Legion Drive.
(g) 
Main Street and Eagle Street. Vehicles traveling east on Main Street and intending to turn south on Ashland Street.
(h) 
Main Street and Eagle Street. Vehicles traveling south on Eagle Street and intending to turn west on Main Street.
(i) 
Ashland Street and Summer Street. Vehicles traveling north on Ashland and intending to turn east on Summer Street.
(j) 
Ashland Street and American Legion Drive. Vehicles traveling east on American Legion Drive and intending to turn south on Ashland Street.
(k) 
Ashland Street and American Legion Drive. Vehicles traveling south on Ashland Street and intending to turn west on American Legion Drive.
(l) 
Ashland Street and American Legion Drive. Vehicles traveling north on Ashland and intending to turn east on Chestnut Street.
(m) 
Union Street and Eagle Street. Vehicles traveling north on Eagle Street and intending to turn east on Union Street.
(n) 
Union Street and Eagle Street. Vehicles traveling south on Eagle Street and intending to turn west on Veterans' Memorial Drive.
(o) 
Holden Street and Veterans' Memorial Drive. Vehicles traveling west and intending to turn north on Holden Street.
(p) 
Holden Street and Veterans' Memorial Drive. Vehicles traveling north on Holden Street and intending to turn east on Veterans' Memorial Drive on Center Street.
(q) 
Holden Street and Veterans' Memorial Drive. Vehicles traveling east on Veterans' Memorial Drive and intending to turn south on Holden Street or east on Center Street.
(2) 
Left lane must turn left:
(a) 
Main Street and Hadley Overpass. Vehicles traveling west on Main Street and intending to turn south on Hadley Overpass.
(b) 
Main Street and Marshall Street. Vehicles traveling south on Marshall Street and intending to turn east on Main Street.
(c) 
Main Street and Marshall Street. Vehicles traveling east on West Main Street and intending to turn north on Marshall Street.
(d) 
Main Street and American Legion Drive. Vehicles traveling west on Main Street and intending to turn south on American Legion Drive.
(e) 
Main Street and Eagle Street. Vehicles traveling west on Main Street and intending to turn south on Ashland Street.
(f) 
Main Street and Eagle Street. Vehicles traveling south on Eagle Street and intending to turn east on Main Street.
(g) 
Union Street and Eagle Street and Veterans' Memorial Drive. Vehicles traveling east on Veterans' Memorial Drive and intending to turn north on Eagle Street.
(h) 
River Street and Eagle Street. Vehicles traveling north on Eagle Street and intending to turn west on River Street.
(i) 
Veterans' Memorial Drive and Holden Street. Vehicles traveling east on Veterans' Memorial Drive and intending to turn north on Holden Street.
(j) 
Veterans Memorial Drive and Holden Street. Vehicles traveling west on Veterans Memorial Drive and intending to turn south on Holden Street.
The driver of a vehicle shall not overtake and pass a vehicle proceeding in the same direction unless there is sufficient clear space ahead to permit the overtaking to be completed without impeding the safe operation of any other vehicle.
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State law reference: Overtaking vehicles, G. L., C. 89, § 2.
The driver of a vehicle when about to be overtaken and passed by another vehicle approaching from the rear shall give way to the right in favor of the overtaking vehicle, on suitable and audible signal being given by the driver of the overtaking vehicle, and shall not increase the speed of his vehicle until completely passed by the overtaking vehicle.
Upon the following streets or at the areas designated below no person shall drive a vehicle into the intersecting street by making a left turn:
Westbound on Veterans' Memorial Drive into West Main Street or High Street.
(a) 
No person shall drive in such a manner as unnecessarily to obstruct the normal movement of traffic upon any street or highway. Officers may require any driver who fails to comply with this paragraph to drive to the side of the roadway and wait until such traffic as has been delayed has passed.
(b) 
No driver shall enter an intersection or a marked crosswalk unless there is sufficient space on the other side of the intersection or crosswalk and on the right half of the roadway to accommodate the vehicle he is operating without obstructing the passage of other vehicles or pedestrians notwithstanding any traffic control signal indication to proceed.
The driver of a vehicle shall not follow another vehicle more closely than is reasonable and prudent, having due regard to the speed of such vehicle and the traffic upon and condition of the street or highway.
The following streets or parts of streets are hereby declared to be throughways under the provisions of Section 9, Chapter 89 of the General Laws and subject to the terms thereof.
Ashland Street, from Summer Street to the underpass of the Boston and Maine Railroad.
Upon roadways less than 27 feet wide and upon which vehicular traffic is permitted to operate in both directions, the driver of any slow-moving vehicle when traveling outside a business district shall not follow another slow-moving vehicle within 200 feet, but this shall not be construed to prevent such slow-moving vehicular from overtaking and passing another slowmoving vehicle. This section shall not apply to funeral or other lawful processions.
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Cross reference: Funeral processions, § 13-47.
The driver of any vehicle before starting, stopping, turning from a direct line or backing shall first see that such movement can be made in safety. If such movement cannot be made in safety, or if it interferes unduly with the normal movement of other traffic, such driver shall wait for a more favorable opportunity to make such movement.
No driver shall back or turn a vehicle so as to proceed in the direction opposite to that in which such vehicle is headed or traveling, on Main Street between its intersection with Ashland and Eagle Streets and the Phoenix bridge over the south branch of the Hoosac River and on State Street between its intersection with Main Street and its intersection with Depot Square.
The driver of a vehicle emerging from an alley, driveway, garage or gasoline station shall sound his horn and stop such vehicle immediately prior to driving onto a sidewalk or into the sidewalk area extending across such alley, driveway, garage or gasoline station.
[12-13-68; Ord. of 6-23-1987; Ord. of 9-22-1987]
(a) 
No driver shall enter or emerge from a driveway on Main Street between its intersection with Ashland and Eagle Streets and its intersection with Marshall Street and Hadley Overpass by making a left turn.
(b) 
No driver shall enter or emerge from a driveway on the easterly side of Marshall Street between its intersection with Main Street and its intersection with Center Street by making a left turn.
(c) 
No driver shall exit from a driveway on the east side of Eagle Street between its intersection with Union Street and a distance of 69 feet northerly therefrom by making a left turn.
No driver shall enter or emerge from a driveway on the easterly side of Eagle Street between its intersection with Canal and Eagle Streets and its intersection with Prospect and Eagle Street by making a left turn.
(d) 
No driver shall exit from a driveway on the north side of Union Street between its intersection with Eagle Street and a distance of 268 feet easterly therefrom by making a left turn.
(e) 
No driver shall exit from a driveway on the east side of American Legion Drive between its intersection with Summer Street and a distance of 576 feet southerly therefrom by making a left turn.
When two or more persons in a group are operating bicycles, they shall ride in single file. No bicycle shall be operated between sunset and sunrise without displaying a clear, white, properly, lighted headlight which is firmly attached thereto, and is visible under normal atmospheric conditions from the front thereof for not less than 500 feet or without a red reflector, firmly attached to the bicycle, which is clearly visible in the headlight beam of an automobile for a distance of 300 feet from the rear of the bicycle.
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Cross reference: Riding bicycles on sidewalks, § 21-25; State law reference: Operation of bicycles, G.L., C. 85, § 11B.
[Ord. of 11-13-1979; Ord. of 2-12-1980; Ord. of 8-12-1980]
Color and arrow indications in traffic-control signals shall have the commands ascribed to them in this section, and no other meanings, and every driver of a vehicle or conveyance shall comply therewith, except when otherwise directed by an officer or except as provided in section 13-47. In no case shall a driver enter or proceed through an intersection without a due regard to the safety of other persons or property within the intersection regardless of what indications may be given by traffic-control signals.
(a) 
Green. While the green lens is illuminated, drivers facing the signal may proceed through the intersection, but shall yield the right-of-way to pedestrians and vehicles lawfully within a crosswalk or the intersection at the time such signal was exhibited.
(b) 
Right, left and vertical green arrows. When a right green arrow is illuminated, drivers facing the signal may turn right. When a left green arrow is illuminated, drivers facing the signal may turn left. When a vertical green arrow is illuminated, drivers facing the signal may go straight ahead. When a green arrow is exhibited together with a red or yellow lens, drivers may enter the intersection to make the movement permitted by the arrow, but shall yield the right-of-way to vehicles and pedestrians proceeding from another direction on a green indication.
(c) 
Yellow. While the yellow lens is illuminated, waiting drivers shall not proceed and any driver approaching the intersection or a marked stop line shall stop at such point unless he is so close to the intersection that a stop cannot be made in safety; provided, however, that if a green arrow is illuminated at the same time, drivers may enter the intersection to make the movement permitted by such arrow.
(d) 
(1) 
Red. Traffic facing a steady circular red signal alone shall stop at a clearly marked stop line; or if none, before entering the crosswalk on the near side of the intersection; or if none, then before entering the intersection, and shall remain standing until an indication to proceed is shown except as allowed by Chapter 89, Section 8 of the General Laws.
(2) 
No driver of a vehicle facing a circular red signal indicator shall make a right turn where official traffic signs are installed and maintained prohibiting such turns at the following intersections:
[Ord. of 9-23-2015]
Eagle, River and Canal Streets
All approaches
Ashland and Summer Streets
Eastbound on Summer Street
Artery, Center and Holden Streets
East and westbound on Center Street
Eastbound on Artery Street
Northbound on Holden Street
(e) 
Red and yellow. While the red and yellow lenses are illuminated together, drivers shall not enter the intersection and during such time the intersection shall be reserved for the exclusive use of pedestrians.
(f) 
Flashing red. A flashing red lens shall indicate those intersections at which a driver is required by law to stop before entering.
(g) 
Flashing yellow flashing yellow lens shall indicate the presence of a hazard and drivers may proceed only with caution.
(h) 
Flashing green. A flashing green lens shall indicate an intersection or pedestrian crosswalk in use or subject to use by entering or crossing traffic. Drivers may proceed only with caution and shall be prepared to comply with a change in the signal to red or yellow indication.
[Ord. of 6-8-1999]
When traffic control signals are not in place or not in operation, the operator of a vehicle, which for purposes of this section shall also include bicycles, shall yield the right-of-way, slowing down or stopping if need be so to yield, to a pedestrian crossing the roadway within a marked crosswalk when the pedestrian is upon the half of the roadway upon which the vehicle is traveling or when the pedestrian approaches from the opposite half of the roadway to within five feet of that half of the roadway upon which the vehicle is traveling.
[4-14-1964; 6-8-1965; 8-10-1965, §§ 3, 4; 1-26-1971; 12-9-1975, § 3; Ord. of 9-9-1980; Ord. of 7-13-1982; Ord. of 2-22-1983; Ord. of 1-14-1986; Ord. of 5-27-1986; Ord. of 9-22-1987; Ord. of 11-24-1987; Ord. of 7-12-1988; Ord. of 10-24-1989; Ord. of 3-13-1990; Ord. of 4-28-1992; Ord. of 9-22-1992; Ord. of 10-27-1992; Ord. of 11-24-1992; Ord. of 12-22-1992; Ord. of 7-27-1993; Ord. of 10-12-1993; Ord. of 2-26-2002 (two); Ord. of 12-27-2005; Ord. of 4-22-2008; Ord. of 7-27-2010; Ord. of 9-8-2020]
Every driver of a vehicle, railway car or other conveyance approaching an intersection of ways where there exists facing him an official sign bearing the word 'stop," or a flashing red signal indication, such sign or signal having apart from these rules and orders the written approval of the State Department of Public Works and such approval being in effect, shall, before proceeding through the intersection, bring such vehicle, railway car or other conveyance to a complete stop at such point as may be clearly marked by a sign or line, or if a point is not so marked, then at the nearer line of crosswalk of such intersection. In the case of a line of two or more vehicles approaching such stop sign or flashing red signal indication, the drivers of the second and third vehicles in any group shall not be required to stop more than once before proceeding through the intersection. This section shall not apply when the traffic is otherwise directed by an officer or by a lawful traffic regulating sign, signal or device nor to a funeral procession as provided in Section 13-47.
In accordance with the foregoing, the erection and maintenance of an isolated stop sign or signs or flashing red signals, as the case may be, are authorized so as to face:
Angeli Street, at Greylock Avenue
Ashland Street, northbound drivers at Main Street
Bank Street, southbound drivers at Summer Street
Barbour Street, eastbound drivers at Phelps Avenue; westbound drivers at Phelps Avenue
Beaver Street, westbound drivers at Union Street
Blackinton Street, eastbound drivers at Church Street
Blackinton Street, eastbound drivers at Montana Street
Bonair Avenue, north and southbound drivers at Barbour Street
Bracewell Avenue, east and westbound drivers at North Holden Street
Brown Street, northbound drivers at River Street
Canal Street, southbound drivers at Union Street
Center Street, westbound drivers at Marshall Street; westbound drivers at Holden Street
Chantilly Avenue, north and southbound drivers at Barbour Street
Charlene Street, westbound drivers at Cliff Street
Chase Avenue, southbound drivers at River Street, southbound drivers at Bracewell Avenue, northbound drivers at Bracewell Avenue
Cliff Street, southbound drivers at Union Street
Drury High School Driveway, westbound drivers at Church Street
Eagle Street, southbound drivers at Main Street
East Main Street, westbound drivers at Miner Street and Pleasant Street
Elder Avenue, north and south drivers at East Avenue
Elmwood Avenue, eastbound drivers at Church Street; westbound drivers at Church Street
Furnace Street Bypass, eastbound drivers at State Street
Furnace Street, northbound drivers at Reservoir Road
Gallup Street, northbound drivers at Union Street
Grant Street, at Angeli Street
Gregory Avenue, northbound drivers at Cleveland Avenue
Hadley Overpass, northbound drivers at Main Street
Harris Street, northbound drivers at North Street
Harris Street, southbound drivers at River Street
Hawthorne Avenue, north and southbound drivers at Barbour Street
Holbrook Street, eastbound and westbound drivers at Meadow Street
Holden Street, northbound drivers at River Street
North Holden Street, northbound at Bracewell Avenue and southbound at Bracewell Avenue
North Holden Street, southbound drivers at River Street
Houghton Street, southbound drivers at River Street
Johnson Street, eastbound and westbound at Walker Street
Lawrence Avenue, eastbound drivers at Corinth Street
Liberty Street, eastbound and westbound drivers at North Holden Street; eastbound drivers at Eagle Street
East Main Street, westbound drivers at Church Street; eastbound drivers at Union Street
East Main Street, westbound at the intersection of Union Street and Walker Street
Marshall Street, southbound drivers at Main Street; northbound drivers at River Street
Miner Street, westbound drivers at East Main Street
Miner Street, northbound drivers at Union Street
Montana Street, northbound drivers at Blackinton Street; southbound drivers at Blackinton Street
North Street, eastbound drivers at Houghton Street
Notch Road, northbound drivers at West Main Street
Old Union Street, eastbound drivers at Union Street (Route 2)
Park Avenue, northbound drivers at East Quincy Street; southbound drivers at East Quincy Street
Phelps Avenue, northbound and southbound at Barbour Street
Pleasant Street, northbound drivers at East Main Street; westbound drivers at Church Street
Porter Street, eastbound drivers at Church Street
Quincy Street, eastbound drivers at Church Street
Rand Street, northbound drivers at Union Street
Rich Street, westbound drivers at Kemp Avenue
School Street, eastbound at the intersection of Veazie Street
West Shaft Road, southbound drivers at intersection with new section of West Shaft Road
Spring Street, eastbound drivers at Church Street
South State Street, westbound drivers at its southerly intersection with the A. M. Curran Memorial Highway
St. John's Municipal Parking Lot, eastbound drivers at Ashland Street
Summer Street, eartbound drivers at Church Street
Summer Street, eastbound drivers to K-Mart parking lot
Summit Avenue, northbound drivers at East Quincy Street; southbound drivers at East Quincy Street
Tyler Street, southbound drivers at River Street
Veazie Street, southbound drivers at River Street
Veazie Street, northbound and southbound at North Street
Versailles Avenue, north and southbound drivers at Barbour Street
Washington Avenue, eastbound drivers at Church Street
Weber Avenue, eastbound drivers at Holden Street
Williams Street, northbound and southbound at North Street
Woodlawn Avenue, eastbound drivers on Woodlawn Avenue at Notch Road
[Ord. of 11-13-1979; Ord. of 3-11-1980; Ord. of 9-9-1980; Ord. of 3-13-1990]
In accordance with the provision of Chapter 89, Section 9, of the Massachusetts General Laws, the following streets are designated as yield streets at the intersections and in the direction indicated:
(a) 
Holden Street, southbound, right turn into Route 2.
(b) 
Eagle Street, southbound, at Franklin Street.
(c) 
(Reserved)
(d) 
Roberts Drive, westbound, into Massachusetts Avenue.
[Ord. of 12-28-1971, § 3; Ord. of 4-26-1977, § 1; Ord. of 1-8-1985; Ord. of 7-27-1993; Ord. of 9-28-1993; Ord. of 11-27-2001]
Upon the following streets or parts thereof vehicular traffic shall move only in the direction indicated below:
Bank Street, southerly
Blackinton Street, easterly, from Ashland Street to Montana Street
Center Street, easterly from Marshall Street to Holden Street
Corinth Street, southerly from the College Walkway to Bond Street
Depot Square, southerly on the westerly side of the island therein; and continuing easterly to a point which is an extension of the easterly side of said island as extended in a southerly direction
Depot Square, northerly on the easterly side of the island therein
Eagle Street, southerly from Center Street to Main Street
Hoosac Street, westerly
Lawrence Street, easterly
Montana Street, southerly
North Church Street, northerly
Old Union Street, southerly from Gallup Street to Murray Avenue
Porter Street, westerly
Quincy Street, westerly
Spring Street, easterly from Chestnut Street to Church Street
Summer Street, easterly from Ashland to Church Street and from American Legion Drive a distance of 160 feet; westerly from Ashland Street a distance of 226 feet
Temple Street, easterly
West Main Street, easterly between the southerly intersecting line of Veteran's Memorial Drive and the westerly intersecting line of High Street
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State law reference: Civil liability for violation of one-way street regulations, MGL. c. 89, § 10.
[8-10-1965, § 4]
Upon any roadway divided by a parkway, grass plot, reservation, viaduct, or by any structure or area, driver shall keep to the right of such division except when otherwise directed by an officer, signals, signs or markings.
At any junction or crossing of ways where the roadway grades have been separated and where the ways are connected by ramps and at any intersection of ways in which there are traffic islands, drivers of vehicles shall proceed only as indicated by official signs, signals or markings.
No driver shall enter upon the road surface of any street or highway or section thereof, when, by reason of construction, surface treatment, maintenance or the like, or because of some unprotected hazard, such road surface is closed to travel, and one or more signals, signs or lights have been erected or placed to indicate that all or part of the road surface of the highway is not to be used, or when so advised by an officer, watchman, member of a street or highway crew or employee of the city, either audibly or by signals.
The driver of a vehicle shall not drive upon any sidewalk except at a permanent or temporary driveway.
A funeral procession shall be identified as such by means of white pennants bearing a purple symbol attached to both the first and the last vehicles.
Each driver in a funeral procession shall keep as near to the right edge of the roadway as is feasible and follow the vehicle ahead as closely as is practicable and safe.
At an intersection where a traffic-control signal is operating, the driver of the first vehicle in a funeral procession shall be the only one required to stop for a red or red and yellow indication.
At an intersection where a lawful "stop" sign exists, the driver of the first vehicle in a funeral procession shall be the only one required to stop before proceeding through the intersection.[2]
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State Law Reference: Funeral processions, MGL. C. 85, § 14A.
[2]
Cross Reference: Slow-moving vehicles, § 13-35.
[Ord. of 7-24-1979; Ord. of 2-9-1993]
The use and operation of heavy commercial vehicles having a carrying capacity of more than 2 1/2 tons are hereby restricted on the following named streets for parts thereof, and in the manner outlined and during the period of time set forth:
Massachusetts Avenue from Roberts Drive westerly to the Williamstown town line at all times. The alternate route shall be State Road (Route 2) between Roberts Drive and the Williamstown town line.
West Shaft Road from Mohawk Trail (Route 2) both entrances to Church Street at all times. The alternate route shall be Route 2 to Route 8.
This section shall not apply to heavy commercial vehicles going to or coming from places upon said streets for the purpose of making deliveries of goods, materials or merchandise to or similar collections from abutting land or buildings or adjoining streets or ways to which access cannot otherwise be gained; or to vehicles used in connection with the construction, maintenance and repair of said streets or public utilities therein; or to federal, state, municipal or public service corporation-owned vehicles.
This section shall be in effect only during such times as official traffic signs are installed and maintained.
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Editor's Note: This section was added by ordinance of 7-24-1979, as § 13-47a, which the editor has redesignated as § 13-47.1 to preserve Code format.