[Amended 4-16-2019 by Ord. No. 2019-06]
The Police Chief and/or the Director of Public
Works, with the approval of the Town Council, shall place and maintain,
or cause to be placed and maintained, traffic control signs, signals,
and devices required or authorized under this chapter and may place
and maintain such additional traffic control devices as he or she
may deem necessary to regulate traffic under this chapter or under
state law or to guide or warn traffic, including angle parking signs
and markings, turning markers, and signs prohibiting left, right or
U-turns, the location of which he or she is authorized to determine.
All signs or signals required or authorized hereunder shall, so far
as practical, be uniform as to type and location throughout the Town.
All traffic control signs, signals and devices so erected and not
inconsistent with the provisions of state law or this chapter shall
be official traffic control devices.
The driver of any vehicle shall obey the instructions
of any official traffic control device applicable to that vehicle
and placed in accordance with this chapter, unless otherwise directed
by a police officer, subject to the exceptions granted to the driver
of an authorized emergency vehicle in this chapter. No provision of
this chapter for which signs are required shall be enforced against
an alleged violator if, at the time and place of the alleged violation,
an official sign is not in proper position and sufficiently legible
to be seen by an ordinarily observant person. Whenever a particular
section does not state that signs are required, such section shall
be effective even though no signs are erected or in place.
Whenever authorized signs are erected indicating
that no right or left or U-turn is permitted, no driver of a vehicle
shall disobey the directions of any such sign, and, when authorized
marks or other indications are placed within an intersection indicating
the course to be traveled by vehicles turning, no driver of a vehicle
shall disobey the directions of any such indication.
[Amended 4-16-2019 by Ord. No. 2019-06]
The Police Chief and/or the Director of Public
Works, with the approval of the Town Council, is hereby authorized:
A.
Crosswalks. To designate and maintain, by appropriate
devices, marks or lines upon the surface of the roadway, crosswalks
at intersections where in his or her opinion there is particular danger
to pedestrians crossing the roadway and at such other places as he
or she may deem necessary.
B.
Lanes. To mark lanes for parking and for traffic on
street pavements at such places as he or she may deem advisable consistent
with this chapter.
C.
Bikeways. To designate and maintain bikeways by appropriate
signs, devices, marks or lines upon the surface of the roadway.
A.
Authority to erect.
(1)
The Police Chief and/or the Director of Public Works
shall place and maintain a stop sign at each location designated by
this section.
[Amended 4-16-2019 by Ord. No. 2019-06]
(2)
Every such sign shall bear the word "Stop" in letters
not less than six inches in height and shall be located as near as
practicable to the line of the crosswalk furthest from the intersection
or, if no crosswalk exists, at the point nearest the intersecting
roadway.
B.
Stop required. When stop signs are erected as provided
by this section, every driver of a vehicle shall stop such vehicle
at such sign, or at a clearly marked stop line, before entering the
intersection, except when directed to proceed by a police officer
or traffic control signal.
C.
Enter through street. After the driver of a vehicle
has stopped in obedience to a stop sign at the entrance to a through
street, such driver shall then proceed cautiously, yielding the right-of-way
to vehicles which have entered the intersection from said through
street or which are approaching so closely on such through street
as to constitute an immediate hazard.
D.
Stop signs or flashing red light locations. Stop signs
or flashing red lights shall be erected and maintained on the entering
street(s) at the following intersections in accordance with the following
schedule:
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Through Way
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Entering Street
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Atlantic Avenue
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Elbow Lane
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Cottage Street
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Bridge Street
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Federal Street
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Greeley Avenue
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High Street
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Holland Avenue
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Maple Avenue
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Rodick Street
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Cromwell Harbor Road
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Glen Mary Road
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Harden Farm Road
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Kebo Street
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Rockwood Avenue
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Spring Street
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Gilbert Farm Road
[Added 4-16-2019 by Ord.
No. 2019-06] | ||
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Crooked Road
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Knox Road
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Old Norway Drive
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Eagle Lake Road
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Cleftstone Road
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Cromwell Harbor Road
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Cross Street
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Forest Street
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Norway Drive
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Prospect Avenue
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Public School Driveways
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Woodbury Road
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Eden Street
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Bowles Avenue
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Brewer Avenue
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First Highbrook Road
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Harbor Lane
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Michigan Avenue
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Prospect Avenue
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Second Highbrook Road
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West Street
[Added 5-17-2022 by Ord. No. 2022-02] | ||
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West Street Extension
[Added 5-17-2022 by Ord. No. 2022-02] | ||
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Federal Street
[Added 5-17-2022 by Ord. No. 2022-02] |
Federal Street
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First South Street
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Des Isle Avenue
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Forest Street
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Pine Street
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Glen Mary Road
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Park Street
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Ledgelawn Avenue
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Cromwell Harbor Road
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Park Street
[Added 8-15-2017 by Ord.
No. 2017-04] | ||
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Pleasant Street
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Waldron Road
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Main Street
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Albert Meadow
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Atlantic Avenue
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Center Street
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Cottage Street
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Cromwell Harbor Road
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Derby Lane
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Edgewood Street
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Firefly Lane
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First South Street
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Hancock Street
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Livingston Road
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Mount Desert Street
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Newport Drive
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Newton Way
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Oliver Street
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Park Street
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Pleasant Street
[Added 4-16-2019 by Ord.
No. 2019-06] | ||
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Rodick Place
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Schooner Head Road
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Second South Street
[Repealed 4-16-2019 by Ord. No. 2019-06] | ||
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Stanwood Place
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Stephens Lane
[Repealed 4-16-2019 by Ord. No. 2019-06] | ||
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The Field
[Repealed 4-16-2019 by Ord. No. 2019-06] | ||
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Wayman Lane
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Mount Desert Street
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Holland Avenue
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Kennebec Street
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Ledgelawn Avenue
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Roberts Avenue
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School Street
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Shannon Way
[Amended 4-16-2019 by Ord. No. 2019-06] | ||
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Spring Street
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Park Street
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Ash Street
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School Street
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Route 3
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Bayview Drive
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Breakneck Road
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Crooked Road
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Hadley Point Road
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Hamor Avenue
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Knox Road
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Ledgewood Road
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Loring Street
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Norway Drive (Old Route 3)
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Sand Point Road
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Gilbert Farm Road
[Added 4-16-2019 by Ord.
No. 2019-06] | ||
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Routes 198 and 102
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Indian Point Road
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Knox Road
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Cedar Street
[Added 4-16-2019 by Ord.
No. 2019-06] | ||
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School Street
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Edgewood Street
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Pleasant Street
[Added 4-16-2019 by Ord.
No. 2019-06] | ||
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Second South Street
[Repealed 4-16-2019 by Ord. No. 2019-06] | ||
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Slant Road
[Repealed 4-16-2019 by Ord. No. 2019-06] | ||
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Wescott Avenue
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Waldron Road
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Glen Mary Road
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Shannon Road
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Spring Street
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West Street
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Billings Avenue
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Bridge Street
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Holland Avenue
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Main Street
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Rodick Street
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West Street Extension
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Cleftstone Road
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Prospect Avenue
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Woodbury Road
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E.
Three-way stop intersections. Stop signs shall be
erected at the following intersections on the enumerated entering
streets:
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School Street, Cedar Avenue, Newton Way
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School Street, Pleasant Street, First South
Street
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Bloomfield Road (both sides), Champlain Road
[Amended 8-15-2006 by Ord. No. 2006-6] |
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Cleftstone Road, Highbrook Road at Howe's Park
[Added 8-15-2006 by Ord. No. 2006-6] |
F.
Four-way stop intersections. Stop signs shall be erected
at the following intersections on the enumerated entering streets:
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Ledgelawn Avenue, Lower Ledgelawn Avenue, Cromwell
Harbor Road
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Ledgelawn Avenue, Park Street
[Added 8-15-2017 by Ord.
No. 2017-04] |
A.
Authority to erect.
(1)
The Police Chief and/or the Director of Public Works
shall place and maintain a yield sign at each location designated
by this section.
[Amended 4-16-2019 by Ord. No. 2019-06]
(2)
Every such sign shall bear the word "Yield" in letters
not less than six inches in height. Signs shall be located as near
as practicable to the line of the crosswalk furthest from the intersection
or, if no crosswalk exists, at the point nearest the intersecting
roadway.
B.
Yield required. The driver of any vehicle approaching
a yield sign shall slow down to a speed reasonable for existing conditions
and shall yield the right-of-way to any vehicles in the intersection
or approaching on another roadway so closely as to constitute a hazard
during the time such driver is moving across or within the intersection.
C.
Yield sign locations. Yield signs shall be erected
and maintained on the entering streets at the following intersections
in accordance with the following schedule:
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Through Way
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Entering Street
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|---|---|
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Crooked Road
|
Norway Drive
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|
Eden Street
|
Mount Desert[1]
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[1]
Editor's Note: The former entry for West Street, which immediately
followed, was repealed 5-17-2022 by Ord. No. 2022-02.
A.
Signs, signals and markings. No person shall place,
maintain, or display upon or in view of any highway any unauthorized
sign, signal, marking, or device which purports to be or is an imitation
of or resembles an official traffic control device, or which attempts
to direct the movement of traffic, or which hides from view or interferes
with the effectiveness of any official traffic control device, and
no person shall place on any official traffic control device any commercial
advertising, nor shall any public authority permit upon any highway
any traffic sign or signal bearing thereon any commercial advertising.
This shall not be deemed to prohibit the erection upon private property
adjacent to highways of signs giving useful directional information
and of a type that cannot be mistaken for official signs.
B.
Public nuisance. Every such prohibited sign, signal,
or marking is hereby declared to be a public nuisance, and the authority
having jurisdiction over the highway is hereby empowered to remove
or cause to be removed each such sign, signal or marking without notice.
