A.
The Board of Selectmen is hereby authorized, and as
to those signs and signals required hereunder it shall be its duty,
to place and maintain or cause to be placed and maintained all official
traffic signs, signals, markings and safety zones. All signs, signals,
markings and safety zones shall conform to the standards as prescribed
by the Department of Public Works of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
B.
Sections 250-7 and 250-8 of Article II and §§ 250-36 through 250-40 relating to parking shall be effective only during such time as official signs are erected and maintained in each block designating the provision of such sections and located so as to be easily visible to approaching drivers. Sufficient number of such signs must be provided so that a car cannot be parked in a limited or prohibited parking place without having the legend side of such a sign, clearly setting forth the parking regulation thereat, visible from that location.
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 or marking 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 or marking or cause it
to be removed, without notice.
It shall be unlawful for any person to willfully
deface, injure, move, obstruct or interfere with any official traffic
sign, signal or marking.
The location of all bus stops, taxicab stands
and service zones shall be specified by the Chief of Police, and in
the case of taxicab stands the Chief of Police shall designate who
may use them as such.
No driver of any vehicle or of any street car
shall disobey the instructions of any official traffic control signal,
sign, marking, marker or legend, unless otherwise directed by a police
officer.
[Added 1-10-1990]
A.
Access and egress. Within the limits of the federal
aid project, neither additional driveways (commercial or residential)
nor relocations or alterations of existing driveways shall be permitted
unless they are in conformance with Department standards and receive
prior written approval from the Department.
B.
Traffic island. Traffic islands or median islands
and traffic devices thereon are not to be installed, altered or removed
without the prior written approval of the Department. Parking is prohibited
on and adjacent to all traffic islands and median islands within the
federal aid project.
C.
Traffic control signals.
(1)
Traffic control signals shall be operated in street
accordance with the timing sequence and layout as shown on the plans
of this project.
(2)
Changes in the sequence or operation of traffic signals
located in the federal aid project are not to be made without the
written approval of the Department.
(3)
Traffic control signals, the operation of which is
pertinent to the federal aid project area covered by the agreement,
are located to control traffic as shown on the plans and as listed
below for Federal Aid Project No. M-000S (306) for the intersections
of:
(4)
The Town of Georgetown shall have the ownership, maintenance
and operational responsibility of all traffic control signals within
this project.
D.
Miscellaneous. Traffic controls or regulations instituted
either by the Department or the town on ways or parts thereof within
the federal aid project are to remain in force and effect until proposed
future changes have been approved in writing by the Department. The
Department will not approve any future proposed traffic control changes
within the federal aid project which will, in the opinion of the Department,
lessen to any degree the efficient utilization of the highway for
traffic purposes.
E.
Maintenance. The Town of Georgetown in accordance
with the provisions of Section 109(d) and 116 of Title 23 of the United
States Code will properly maintain the way and all traffic control
devices, including signs and pavement markings under the control of
the town within the project area.
F.
Penalty. Failure on the part of the town to fulfill
its responsibility in the proper maintenance and operation and the
enforcement of the traffic regulations of the completed facility will
disqualify the town from future federal aid participation on projects
in which the town has maintenance responsibility, as provided in Title
23, United States Code. Such failure shall also result in withholding
or withdrawing of the unexpended balance of any funds assigned to
the Town of Georgetown under the provisions of MGL C. 90, § 34,
as amended by Chapter 603 of the Legislative Acts of 1962.
