Town of Easton, MA
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2022-11-28
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Division 2 Bylaws
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Part II: General Legislation
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Chapter 147 Handicapped Parking
- Division 1 Charter
- Ch C Charter
- Division 2 Bylaws
- Part I: Administrative Legislation
- Ch 1 General Provisions
- Ch 3 Audit Committee
- Ch 4 Budget Subcommittee
- Ch 6 Capital Planning Committee
- Ch 8 Collector of Taxes
- Ch 11 Contracts and Purchasing
- Ch 14 Council on Aging
- Ch 16 (Reserved)
- Ch 18 Agricultural Commission
- Ch 20 Easton Affordable Housing Trust Fund
- Ch 22 Finance Committee
- Ch 26 Financial Affairs
- Ch 39 Legal Affairs
- Ch 44 Meetings
- Ch 50 Noncriminal Disposition of Violations
- Ch 56 Personal Property, Sale of
- Ch 59 Personnel
- Ch 65 Records and Reports
- Ch 73 Tree Warden
- Part II: General Legislation
- Ch 89 Advertising, Outdoor
- Ch 93 Alarms
- Ch 96 Alcoholic Beverages
- Ch 100 Amusement Devices
- Ch 104 Animals
- Ch 112 Buildings, Numbering of
- Ch 114 Building Demolition Permit Review
- Ch 117 Cable Television
- Ch 121 Cigarette Rolling Paper
- Ch 128 Earth Removal
- Ch 132 Entertainment
- Ch 136 Excavations
- Ch 141 Fire Lanes
- Ch 147 Handicapped Parking
- § 147-1 Spaces to be reserved for handicapped persons.
- § 147-2 Required number of spaces.
- § 147-3 Unauthorized use of spaces; obstruction of curb ramps.
- § 147-4 Violations and penalties.
- Ch 150 Hazardous Materials
- Ch 152 Local Historic District
- Ch 156 Junk, Old and Precious Metals and Secondhand Articles
- Ch 162 Licenses and Permits
- Ch 168 Mobile Home Parks
- Ch 175 Peddling and Soliciting
- Ch 179 (Reserved)
- Ch 183 Public Gatherings
- Ch 186 Public Property, Destruction of
- Ch 188 Marijuana
- Ch 189 Right to Farm
- Ch 193 Sales, Yard
- Ch 195 Smoking Ban
- Ch 198 Solid Waste
- Ch 200 Stormwater Management
- Ch 202 Streets and Sidewalks
- Ch 203 Stretch Energy Code
- Ch 206 Swimming Pools
- Ch 215 Vehicles, Sale of
- Ch 218 Vehicles, Unregistered
- Ch 223 Water
- Ch 224 Sewer District; Board of Sewer Commissioners
- Ch 227 Wetlands Protection
- Ch 235 Zoning
- Division 3 Board of Health
- Ch 304 Backyard Composting
- Ch 308 Body Art
- Ch 316 Floor Drains
- Ch 320 Food Service Establishments
- Ch 329 Manure and Animal Waste Management
- Ch 332 Mosquito-Borne Illnesses
- Ch 337 Pasteurization
- Ch 343 Sanitary Landfill
- Ch 346 Sanitation Facilities
- Ch 350 Sewage Disposal Systems, On-Site
- Ch 355 Solid Waste
- Ch 360 Swine
- Ch 364 Tobacco Products, Sale of
- Ch 369 Wells, Private
- Division 4 Zoning Board of Appeals
- Ch 400 Comprehensive Permits
- Ch 401 (Reserved)
- Ch 402 (Reserved)
- Division 5 Rules and Regulations
- Ch 500 Plan Approval Authority Rules and Regulations
- Ch 501 Subdivision Rules and Regulations
- Ch 502 Vehicles and Traffic
- Ch 503 Wetlands Regulations
- Ch 504 Regulations for Use of Conservation Land
- Ch 505 Sewer Use Regulations
- Ch 506 Mobile Home Park Rules and Regulations
- Ch 507 Building Demolition Review Regulations
- Ch 508 Local Historic District Rules and Regulations
- Appendix
- Ch 800 Acceptances of General Laws
- Ch 801 Special Acts
- Disposition List
- Ch DL Disposition List
[HISTORY: Adopted by the Annual Town Meeting of the Town
of Easton 4-12-1983 by Art. 38
(Art. 32 of the 1922 Bylaws). Amendments noted where applicable.]
GENERAL REFERENCES
Vehicles and traffic — See Ch. 502.
[Amended 6-2-1997 ATM
by Art. 58]
Any person or body that has lawful control of a public or private
way or of improved or enclosed property used as off-street parking
areas for businesses, shopping malls, theaters, auditoriums, sporting
or recreational facilities, cultural centers, residential dwellings
or for any other place where the public has a right of access as invitees
or licensees shall reserve parking spaces in said off-street parking
areas for any vehicle owned and operated by a disabled veteran or
handicapped person whose vehicle bears the distinguishing license
plate authorized by said MGL c. 90, § 2, or for any vehicle
transporting a handicapped person and displaying the special identification
plate authorized by MGL c. 90, § 2 or for any vehicle bearing
the official identification of a handicapped person issued by any
other state, or any Canadian province.
A.
The parking spaces reserved in said off-street parking area for § 147-1 shall be in accordance with the following formula:
B.
Total parking spaces in an off-street parking lot shall not include
those spaces that are duly posted and/or duly marked as restricted
to employees or residents.
C.
Parking spaces designated as reserved under this chapter shall be
identified by the use of above-grade signs with white lettering against
a blue background and shall bear the words "Handicapped Parking: Special
Plate Required," shall be as near as possible to a building entrance
or walkway, shall be adjacent to curb ramps or other unobstructed
methods permitting sidewalk access to handicapped persons; and shall
be 12 feet wide or two eight-foot-wide areas with four feet of cross
hatch between them.
No person shall leave an unauthorized vehicle within the parking spaces designated in § 147-2 for use by disabled veterans or handicapped persons or leave a vehicle in such a manner as to obstruct a curb ramp designed for use by handicapped persons as a means of egress to a street or public way.
[Amended 4-13-1992 ATM
by Art. 5]
The penalty for violation of this chapter shall be a fine of
$100, and, in addition, the vehicle may be removed in accordance with
the provisions of MGL c. 266, § 120D, as it may be hereinafter
amended.
