A.
Coasting is hereby prohibited upon all streets and
ways within the Town of Deerfield, except upon those as may be expressly
set aside by the Selectboard.
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B.
On those days when conditions are suitable for coasting,
vehicular traffic is hereby prohibited from using those streets, or
parts of streets which are expressly set aside for coasting by the
Selectboard.
[Amended 6-12-2021 ATM by Art. 15]
C.
The foregoing provision shall not apply to drivers
of vehicles whose residences are within such reserved areas, or, who
have legitimate business therein.
No person shall ride upon any part of a vehicle
not designed or intended for use of passengers. This provision shall
not apply to an employee engaged in the necessary discharge of his
duty, or to a person riding within truck bodies in space intended
for merchandise.
No person riding upon any bicycle, motorcycle,
sled, roller skates or any toy vehicle shall attach the same or himself
to any moving vehicle upon any roadway.
[Amended 6-12-2021 ATM by Art. 15]
For the purpose of trial, the Selectboard may
make temporary rules, regulations and orders regulating traffic, or
test under actual conditions, traffic signs, signals, markings, or
other devices. No such experimental regulation, rule or order relating
to traffic, shall remain in effect for a period longer than 60 days.
A.
No owner or occupant of land, abutting upon a townway
of Deerfield or any public way which, by statute, said Town is obligated
to repair and maintain, shall construct any private road or driveway
thereon, so as to extend into such public way, without first having
obtained a written permit therefor from the Selectboard, and approved
by the Superintendent of Highways having charge of the maintenance
and repair of such public way.
[Amended 6-12-2021 ATM by Art. 15]
B.
Whoever by himself, being such owner or occupant,
or by his agents or servants, violates this regulation, shall be punished
by a fine not to exceed $20, and be liable in tort to the Town of
Deerfield for all damages caused thereby, and for the cost and expense
of removing the obstructing material and of restoring the said public
way to its former condition.
A.
The driver of every vehicle involved in an accident,
resulting in the injury or the death of any person or to damage to
property, which damage to property shall amount apparently to at least
$25 shall within 24 hours of such accident, report in detail and in
writing such accident, to the Police Department. A driver who has
been incapacitated as a result of such accident, and to such an extent
as to make reporting impossible or unfavorable to his recovery, shall
not be required to report such accident until he has recovered sufficiently
so to do. The report shall be made upon a form furnished by the Police
Department, copies of which shall be made available at the Police
Station. Compliance with this section, however, shall not relieve
such driver from the additional responsibility of reporting to the
Registrar of Motor Vehicles, any accident in which a person is injured
or killed.
B.
The Police Department of Deerfield may require any
driver of a vehicle involved in an accident, which must be reported
under this section, to file a supplemental report, or supplemental
reports, whenever the original report is deemed, in the opinion of
the Police Department, to be insufficient.
If any vehicle is found upon any street in violation
of these provisions, rules, regulations or orders, and the identity
of the driver cannot be had or determined, the owner or the registrant
of such vehicle, shall be prima facie responsible for such violation.
A.
The provisions of these rules, orders and regulations
shall not apply to drivers actually engaged in work upon a street
or highway closed to travel or under construction or repair or to
officers when engaged in the performance of their public duties, or
to drivers of emergency vehicles while operating in an emergency,
and in the performance of public duties, whenever and wherever the
nature of the work of these necessitates departure from any part of
these rules, orders and regulations.
B.
When snow, sleet or ice accumulates alongside of any
street or roadway, preventing compliance with the rules herein as
to parking within 12 inches of the curbing, and in reference to angle
parking, compliance with the rule would unduly congest the flow of
traffic, then parallel parking may be allowed, and as near the curbing
as is practicable, but only so long as such conditions exist.
C.
These exemptions shall not, however, protect the driver
of any vehicle from the consequences of a reckless disregard of the
safety of others.
