CHAPTER 13.
MOTOR VEHICLES AND TRAFFIC.

As to buses, taxicabs and jobbing trucks, see Ch. 5 of this Revision. As to buses standing in streets in other than bus stands, see § 5-2. As to taxicabs standing in streets in other than designated stands, see § 5-22. As to establishment and maintenance of fire lines, see § 8-3. As to vehicles of peddlers of food, fish and meat, see § 10-6. As to streets and sidewalks generally, see Ch. 20.

Article I. In General.

§ 13-1. Definitions.

§ 13-2. Direction of traffic.

§ 13-3. Temporary closing of streets.

§ 13-3.1. Temporary closing of bridges.

§ 13-4. Temporary prohibition of parking.

§ 13-5. Experimental regulations.

§ 13-6. Zones of quiet.

§ 13-7. One-way streets.

§ 13-8. Location of bus stops, taxicab stands and service zones.

§ 13-9. Streets reserved for coasting.

§ 13-10. Pedestrians soliciting rides prohibited.

§ 13-11. Clinging to moving vehicles prohibited.

§ 13-12. Prohibited riding.

§ 13-13. Drivers to report accidents.

§ 13-14. Traffic accidents and safety reports.

§ 13-15. Exemptions from chapter.

§ 13-16. Owner of vehicle to be held responsible for violations.

§ 13-17. Penalty.

Article II. Traffic Control Devices.

§ 13-18. Responsibility for installation and maintenance; standards.

§ 13-19. When enforcement of chapter requires installation.

§ 13-20. Display of unauthorized signs, etc., prohibited.

§ 13-21. Interference with signs, signals, etc., prohibited.

§ 13-22. Obedience to traffic signs and signals.

§ 13-23. Traffic-control signal legend.

Article III. Stopping, Standing and Parking

Division 1. Generally.

§ 13-24. In general.

§ 13-24.1. Authorization of police.

§ 13-24.2. Fees.

§ 13-24.3. Liability for damage during removal or storage.

§ 13-24.4. General prohibition– Towing zones.

§ 13-24.5. Parking prohibitions– Towing zone.

§ 13-24.6. Official traffic signs.

§ 13-24.7. Police to keep record of towed vehicles.

§ 13-25. Parking for sale prohibited.

§ 13-26. All night parking.

§ 13-27. Unlighted parking.

§ 13-28. Angle parking.

§ 13-29. Handicapped parking spaces.

§ 13-30. Repealed.

§ 13-31. Repealed.

§ 13-32. Repealed.

§ 13-33. Schedule of parking fines.

Division 2. Prohibited Parking.

§ 13-34. No parking on certain streets.

§ 13-35. Safety zones.

§ 13-36. Bus stops.

§ 13-37. Taxicab stands.

§ 13-38. Service zones.

§ 13-38.1. Designated service zone areas.

Division 3. Limited Parking.

§ 13-39. Repealed.

§ 13-40. Same– Between 8:00 A.M. and 8:00 P M.

§ 13-40.1. Same– Between 8:00 A.M. and 5:00 P.M.

§ 13-40.2. Same– Between 8:00 A.M. and 6:00 P.M.

§ 13-41. Same– At all times.

§ 13-42. Same– Between 7:00 A.M. and 5:00 P.M.

§ 13-42.1. One and one-half hour parking.

§ 13-43. Two hour parking– Between 8:00 A.M. and 6:00 P.M. all days except Thursday.

§ 13-44. Same– Between 8:00 A.M. and 6:00 P.M.

§ 13-45. Same– Between 8:00 A.M. and 8:00 P.M.

§ 13-46. Same– Between 6:00 A.M. and 6:00 P.M.

§ 13-47. Same– At all times except Sunday.

§ 13-48. Same– Between 8:00 A.M. and 4:00 P.M.

§ 13-49. Same– Between 7:00 A.M. and 5:00 P.M.

§ 13-49a. Same– At all times.

§ 13-50. One-half hour parking– Between 8:00 A.M. and 6:00 P.M.

§ 13-51. Same– Between 8:00 A.M. and 8:00 P.M.

§ 13-51.1. Same– Between 8:00 A.M. and 10:00 P.M.

§ 13-51.2. Same– Between 8:00 A.M. and 5:00 P.M.

§ 13-51.3. Same– At all times.

§ 13-51.4. Same– Between 6:00 A.M. and 6:00 P.M.

§ 13-52. Fifteen-minute parking.

§ 13-52.1. Ten-minute parking.

§ 13-52.2. Repealed.

Division 4. Metered Parking.

§ 13-53. Installation, maintenance and operation of meters.

§ 13-54. Designation and marking of spaces.

§ 13-55. Parking within spaces; fees.

§ 13-55.1. Parking in unmarked areas– Prohibited in municipal or off-street parking areas.

§ 13-56. Deposit of additional coins to extend parking time prohibited.

§ 13-57. Parking outside of meter spaces.

§ 13-58. Tampering with, injuring, etc., meter; use of slugs, etc.

§ 13-59. Parking of commercial vehicles.

§ 13-60. Collection and disposition of money.

§ 13-61. Repealed.

§ 13-62. Parking meter zones– Two hours.

§ 13-62.1. Same– Two hours.

§ 13-63. Repealed.

§ 13-64. Same– Thirty minutes.

§ 13-65. Enforcement of division.

§ 13-66. Penalties.

Division 5. Off-Street Parking Zones.

§ 13-66.1. No parking two-hour parking zones established.

§ 13-66.2. One-half hour parking zones established.

§ 13-66.3. Repealed.

§ 13-66.4. Repealed.

§ 13-66.5. Repealed.

§ 13-66.6. Senior citizen parking.

§ 13-66.7. No parking outside of designated spaces.

§ 13-66.8. Handicapped parking.

§ 13-66.9. Electronic metered parking.

§ 13-66.10. Designation and marking of spaces.

§ 13-66.11. Parking within spaces; fees.

§ 13-66.12. Parking in unmarked areas– Prohibited in municipal off-street areas.

§ 13-66.13. Tampering with, injuring, etc.– Meter use of slugs, etc.

§ 13-66.14. Collection and disposition of money.

§ 13-66.15. Enforcement of division.

§ 13-66.16. Penalties.

Article IV. Operation of Vehicles.

§ 13-67. Speed.

§ 13-68. Keeping to the fight.

§ 13-69. Overtaking and passing.

§ 13-70. Driver to give way to overtaking vehicle.

§ 13-71. Obstructing traffic prohibited.

§ 13-72. Following too closely.

§ 13-73. Slow vehicles to stay two hundred feet apart.

§ 13-74. Procedure for stopping, turning, etc.

§ 13-75. Repealed.

§ 13-76. Repealed.

§ 13-77. Stop signs.

§ 13-78. Repealed.

§ 13-79. Yield signs.

§ 13-80. Emerging from alley, driveway, etc.

§ 13-81. Driving upon closed street prohibited.

§ 13-82. Driving on sidewalks.

§ 13-83. Driving through safety zones.

§ 13-84. Identification of funeral processions.

§ 13-85. Operation of vehicles in funeral or other processions.

§ 13-86. Heavy commercial vehicles excluded.

§ 13-87. Intersections with islands, ramps, etc.

§ 13-88. Left turn prohibition.

§ 13-88.1. Left lane must turn left.

§ 13-88.2. Right lane must turn right.

§ 13-88.3. Right turn restriction.

§ 13-88.4. Left turn restriction.

§ 13-89. U-turns.

Article V. Abandoned and Junked Motor Vehicles.

§ 13-90. Definitions.

§ 13-91. Abandonment prohibited.

§ 13-91A. Unregistered motor vehicles.

§ 13-92. Impoundment.

Article VI. Pedestrian Control Regulations.

§ 13-93. Definitions.

§ 13-94. Obedience to officers, signals and markings required; crosswalk markings described.

§ 13-95. Traffic-control signals– Pedestrian actuation; right-of-way of certain vehicles.

§ 13-96. Same– Color indications and legends; compliance required.

§ 13-97. Pedestrian crossings and use of roadways– Generally.

§ 13-98. Same– At nonsignalized locations.

§ 13-99. Vehicle operators to exercise due care.

§ 13-100. Permit required for solicitation of rides or business.

§ 13-101. Enforcement of article.

§ 13-102. Article not applicable to certain persons.

§ 13-103. Penalties for violation of article.

ARTICLE I.
IN GENERAL.

Sec. 13-1. Definitions.

For the purposes of this chapter, the following words and phrases shall have the meanings respectively ascribed to them by this section:

Bus stop. An area in the roadway set aside for the boarding of or alighting from the parking of buses.

Crosswalk. That portion of a roadway ordinarily included within the prolongation or connection of curb lines and property lines at intersections or that portion of a roadway clearly indicated for pedestrian crossings by lines on the road surface or by other markings or signs.

Emergency vehicle. Vehicles of the fire department, (fire patrol), police vehicles, ambulances and emergency vehicles of federal, state and municipal departments or public service corporations when the latter are responding to an emergency in relation to the police or fire departments.

Funeral. Any procession of mourners properly identified as such accompanying the remains of a human body.

Lane. A longitudinal division of a roadway into a strip of sufficient width to accommodate the passage of a single line of vehicles.

Official curb parking. That portion of a curbing, the painting of which has been authorized by the city council and which has written approval of the state department of public works.

Official street marking. Any painted line, legend, marking or marker of any description painted or placed upon any way which purports to direct or regulate traffic and which has been authorized by the city council and which has the written approval of the state department of public works.

Official traffic sign. All signs, markings and devices other than signals which are not inconsistent with this chapter, which conform to the standards prescribed by the state department of public works and which are placed or erected by authority of a public body or official having jurisdiction, for the purpose of guiding, directing, warning or regulating traffic.

Official traffic signal. All signals conforming to the standards as prescribed by the state department of public works and consistent with this chapter which are placed or erected by authority of a public body or official having jurisdiction, for the purpose of directing or warning traffic.

Officer. Any police officer, any investigator, examiner or inspector of the registry of motor vehicles and any constable or special officer; provided, that he has his badge of office displayed over his left breast and upon his outer garment.

Parking. The standing of a vehicle, whether occupied or not, otherwise than temporarily for the purpose of and while actually engaged in loading or unloading, or in obedience to an officer or traffic signs or signals or while making emergency repairs or, if disabled, while arrangements are being made to move such vehicle.

Parking meter. Any mechanical device, not inconsistent with the provisions of this chapter, which is placed or erected on any public way within the city for the regulation of parking. Each parking meter installed shall indicate by proper legend the legal parking time established by this chapter. When operated, it shall at all times indicate the balance of legal parking time permitted and at the expiration of such period shall indicate illegal or overtime parking.

Parking meter space. Any space within a parking meter zone adjacent to a parking meter which is duly designated for the parking of vehicles by lines painted on the surface of the street adjacent to or adjoining each parking meter.

Parking meter zone. Any street or portion thereof upon which parking meters are installed and in operation and upon which parking of vehicles is permitted for a limited time subject to compliance with the further provisions of this chapter.

Pedestrian. Any person afoot or riding on a conveyance moved by human power, except bicycles or tricycles.

Roadway. That portion of a street or highway between the regularly established curb lines or that part, exclusive of shoulders, improved and intended to be used for vehicular traffic.

Safety zone. Any area or space set aside within a roadway for the exclusive use of pedestrians which has been indicated by signs, lines or markings and which has the written approval of the state department of public works.

Service zone. An area in the roadway set aside for the accommodation of commercial and transient vehicular traffic.

Sidewalk. That portion of a street or highway set aside for pedestrian travel.

Street or highway. The entire width between property lines of every way open to the use of the public for purposes of travel.

Taxicab stand. An area in the roadway in which certain taxicabs are required to park while waiting to be engaged.

Traffic. Pedestrians, ridden or herded animals, vehicles, street cars or other conveyances either single or together while using any street or highway for the purpose of travel.

Traffic control area. Any area along any way, other than an intersecting way, at which drivers are to be controlled by traffic control signs.

Traffic control signal. Any device using colored lights which conforms to the standards prescribed by the state department of public works, whether manually, electrically or mechanically operated, by which traffic may be alternately directed to stop and to proceed.

Traffic island. Any area or space set aside within a roadway which is not intended for use by vehicular traffic.

U-turn. The turning of a vehicle by means of a continuous left turn whereby the direction of such vehicle is reversed.

Vehicle. Every device in, upon or by which any person or property is or may be transported or drawn upon a street or highway, except devices moved by human power or used exclusively upon stationary rails or tracts.

Vehicle, commercial. Any vehicle being used in the transportation of goods, wares or any merchandise for commercial purposes.

Vehicle, heavy commercial. Any commercial vehicle of two and one-half tons capacity or over.

(7-31-67, art. 1; 9-9-85; 4-9-07.)

Sec. 13-2. Direction of traffic.

It shall be the duty of the officer designated by the chief of police to enforce the provisions of this chapter. Officers of the police department are hereby authorized to direct all traffic either in person or by visible or audible signals in conformance with the provisions of this chapter; provided, that in the event of a fire or other emergency to expedite traffic or safeguard pedestrians, officers of the police or fire departments may direct traffic as conditions may require, notwithstanding the provisions of this chapter.

(7-31-67, art. 2, § 1.)

Sec. 13-3. Temporary closing of streets.

The chief of police is hereby authorized to close temporarily any street or highway in an impending or existing emergency or for any lawful assemblage, demonstration or procession; provided, that there is reasonable justification for the closing of such street.

(7-31-67, art. 2, § 2.)

Sec. 13-3.1. Temporary closing of bridges.

The city council is hereby authorized to close temporarily any city owned bridge in an impending or existing emergency; provided that there is reasonable justification for the closing of such bridge.

Sec. 13-4. Temporary prohibition of parking.

The chief of police is hereby authorized to temporarily prohibit parking on any street or highway or part thereof in an impending or existing emergency or for lawful assemblage, demonstration or procession; provided, there is reasonable justification for such prohibition. Vehicles parked in places where parking is prohibited temporarily may be moved by or under the direction of an officer.

(7-31-67, art. 2, § 3.)

Sec. 13-5. Experimental regulations.

For purposes of trial, the city council may make temporary rules regulating traffic or may test under actual conditions any traffic signs, signals, markings or other devices. No such experimental rule regulating traffic shall remain in effect for a period of time longer than thirty days.

(7-31-67, art. 2, § 8.)

Sec. 13-6. Zones of quiet.

All the territory within two hundred feet of the premises of each hospital in the city is hereby created and established as a zone of quiet. The chief of police is hereby authorized to erect and maintain in a conspicuous manner within this area such signs and markings as are necessary to designate it as a zone of quiet.

The chief of police may temporarily establish a zone of quiet upon any street where a person is seriously ill if requested to do so by the written statement of at least one registered physician certifying to its necessity. Such temporary zone of quiet shall embrace all territory within a radius of two hundred feet of the building occupied by the person named in the request of such physician and shall be designated by the police by placing at a conspicuous place in the street a sign or marker bearing the words "zone of quiet serious illness."

No person operating a motor vehicle within any designated and signed zone of quiet shall sound the horn or other warning device of such vehicle except in an emergency.

(7-31-67, art. 4, § 5.)

Sec. 13-7. One-way streets.

Upon the following streets and parts of streets, vehicular traffic shall move only in the direction indicated below:

Central Place, from Eden Glen to Central Street, in a westerly direction only.

Colburn Court, from Church Street in an easterly direction only.

Columbia Street, from Main Street to Depot Square in an easterly direction only.

Craven Drive, from the intersection of Norwood Avenue to Eleitin Avenue in an easterly direction only.

Cross Street, from Central Street to Lancaster Street in a northeasterly direction only.

Hamilton Street Connector, to River Street in a southerly direction only.

Haynes Court, from West Street to Monroe Street in a southerly direction only.

Howe Street, from Mt. Pleasant Avenue to Short Street in a southerly direction.

Main Street, from Wilderwood Avenue to the Lunenburg town line in a northerly direction only.

Mechanic Street cut-off, in a southerly direction only.

Merriam Avenue, from Columbia Street to Main Street in a westerly direction only.

Mt. Pleasant Avenue, from Howe Street to Pine Street in a southerly direction only.

Park Avenue, from Electric Avenue to Main Street in an easterly direction only.

Pine Grove Avenue, from Cushing Avenue to Main Street in an easterly direction only.

Prospect Avenue, from Electric Avenue to Main Street in an easterly direction only.

River Street, from the intersection of Hamilton Street and Crawford Street to Main Street in a southeasterly direction only.

River Street, from Hamilton Street in an easterly direction only.

Southerly driveway serving the Twin Cities Plaza, from Merriam Avenue into the plaza in an easterly direction only.

Stuart Avenue, from the intersection of Norwood Avenue to Electric Avenue in an easterly direction only.

Wilder Avenue, from Central Street in an easterly direction only.

(7-31-67, art. 6, § 1; 2-26-68; 3-25-68; 9-13-71; 4-23-73, § 1; 5-12-80; 4-12-82; 8-23-82; 7-25-88; 5-13-91; 6-28-93; 12-27-93; 11-13-95; 12-14-98; 2-10-04; 11-26-07.)

Sec. 13-8. Location of bus stops, taxicab stands and service zones.

The location of all bus stops, taxicab stands and service zones shall be specified by the city council. In the case of taxicab stands, the city council shall designate who may use them as such.

(7-31-67, art. 3, § 4.)

Sec. 13-9. Streets reserved for coasting.

On those streets designated by the superintendent of streets and sewers department for coasting, vehicular traffic shall proceed cautiously and at no time at a speed exceeding ten miles per hour.

(7-31-67, art. 4, § 1.)

Sec. 13-10. Pedestrians soliciting rides prohibited.

It shall be unlawful for any person to stand in a roadway for the purpose of soliciting a ride from the operator of any motor vehicle.

(7-31-67, art. 4, § 2.)

Sec. 13-11. Clinging to moving vehicles prohibited.

It shall be unlawful for any person traveling upon any bicycle, coaster, sled, roller skates or any toy vehicle to cling to or attach himself or such conveyance to any other moving vehicle or street car upon any roadway.

(7-31-67, art. 4, § 3.)

Sec. 13-12. Prohibited riding.

No person shall ride on any street car, train or bus upon any portion thereof not designed or intended for the use of passengers; provided, that this section shall not apply to any employees engaged in the necessary discharge of a duty.

(7-31-67, art. 4, § 4.)

Sec. 13-13. Drivers to report accidents.

Every person operating a motor vehicle which is in any manner involved in an accident in which any person is killed or injured or, in which there is damage in excess of one thousand dollars to any one vehicle or other property, shall report such accident within five days to the registrar and to the police department in accordance with the provisions of chapter 90, section 26, of the General Laws.

(7-31-67, art. 8, § 1; 1-14-74; 11-14-94.)

Sec. 13-14. Traffic accidents and safety reports.

(a) The chief of police shall make an annual report concerning the accident situation in the city, accompanied by his recommendations.

(b) The police shall keep a record of all operators involved in personal injury accidents within the municipality.

(c) The police shall submit an annual traffic safety report containing the following:

(1) Pertinent data on safety activities accompanied by his recommendations.

(2) The plans and recommendations for future traffic safety activities.

(7-31-67, art. 2, §§ 5 to 7.)

Sec. 13-15. Exemptions from chapter.

The provisions of this chapter shall not apply to operators actually engaged in work upon a street or highway closed to travel or under construction or repair, to officers when engaged in the performance of public duties or to drivers of emergency vehicles while operating in an emergency and in performance of public duties when the nature of the work of any of these necessitates a departure from any part of this chapter. These exemptions shall not, however, protect the driver of any vehicle from the consequences of a reckless disregard of the safety of others.

(7-31-67, art. 2, § 4.)

Sec. 13-16. Owner of vehicle to be held responsible for violations.

If any vehicle is found upon any street or highway in violation of any provisions of this chapter and the identity of the driver cannot be determined, the owner or the person in whose name such vehicle is registered shall be held prima facie responsible for such violations.

(7-31-67, art. 8, § 2.)

Sec. 13-17. Penalty.

Except as otherwise provided in this chapter, by statute, or by any commission, department or other body authorized by law to impose penalties for violations of rules, regulations and orders governing the use and operation of vehicles, any person convicted of violating any of the provisions of this chapter or any temporary or experimental rule or regulation made under authority of Section 13-5 thereof shall be punished by a fine not exceeding thirty-five dollars.

(7-31-67, art. 8, § 3; 11-14-94.)

ARTICLE II.
TRAFFIC CONTROL DEVICES.

Sec. 13-18. Responsibility for installation and maintenance; standards.

The police department is hereby authorized and 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 required by this chapter. All signs, signals, markings and safety zones shall conform to the standards as prescribed by the state department of public works.

(7-31-67, art. 3, § 1.)

Sec. 13-19. When enforcement of chapter requires installation.

Sections 13-3, 13-4, 13-9, 13-34 to 13-52 inclusive, 13-88 and 13-89 shall be effective only during such time as a sufficient number of official signs are erected and maintained in each block designating the provisions of such sections and located so as to be easily visible to approaching drivers.

Sections relating to one-way streets shall be effective only during such time as a sufficient number of official signs are erected and maintained at each of the exits for each one-way street so that at least one sign will be clearly visible for a distance of at least seventy-five feet to the drivers approaching such an exit.

(7-31-67, art. 3, § 1; 1-14-74.)

Sec. 13-20. Display of unauthorized signs, etc., prohibited.

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, marking or device 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, marking or device or cause it to be removed without notice.

(7-31-67, art. 3, § 2.)

Sec. 13-21. Interference with signs, signals, etc., prohibited.

Any person who wilfully defaces, injures, moves, obstructs or interferes with any official traffic sign, signal or marking shall be liable to a penalty not exceeding fifty dollars for each and every offense.

(7-31-67, art. 3, § 3.)

Sec. 13-22. Obedience to traffic signs and signals.

No driver of any vehicle or street car shall disobey the instruction of any official traffic-control signal, sign, marking, marker or legend unless otherwise directed by a police officer. Any person convicted of a violation of this rule shall be punished by a fine of fifty dollars.

(7-31-67, art. 3, § 5; 11-14-94.)

Sec. 13-23. Traffic-control signal legend.

Colors 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 other conveyance shall comply therewith, except when otherwise directed by an officer or by a lawful traffic regulating sign (other than a stop sign), signal or device or except as provided in section 13-85. In no case shall a driver enter or proceed through an intersection without due regard to the safety of other persons within the intersection regardless of what indications may be given by the 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. Drivers of vehicles making a right or left turn shall yield the right-of-way to pedestrians crossing with the flow of traffic.

(b) Right, left and vertical green arrows. When a right green arrow is illuminated, drivers facing such signal may turn right. When a left green arrow is illuminated, drivers facing such signal may turn left. When a vertical green arrow is illuminated, drivers facing such 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 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.

(1) 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 at a stand 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 steady red indication in a traffic control signal shall make a right turn against such red or stop indication at the following intersections when a sign is erected at such intersections prohibiting such right turn:

Main Street, southbound at Merriam Avenue.

Merriam Avenue, east and westbound at Main Street.

Main Street, southbound at North Main Street.

North Main Street, northbound at Main Street.

Railroad Square, southbound at Main and Prospect Streets.

Main, West and Mechanic Streets, all approaches.

Mechanic Street, eastbound at Whitney Street.

Lindell Avenue, eastbound at Merriam Avenue.

Whitney Street, southbound at Water Street.

Monument Square, northbound to eastbound on Mechanic Street.

Main Street, southbound to westbound on West Street.

Mechanic Street, westbound to northbound on Main Street.

Graham Street, eastbound to southbound on Central Street.

Central Street, northbound to eastbound on Graham Street.

Graham Street, westbound to northbound on Central Street.

Central Street, southbound to westbound on Graham Street.

Prospect Street, northbound to eastbound on Main Street.

Main Street, eastbound to northbound to Railroad 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 an intersection or pedestrian crosswalk in use or subject to use by entering.

(g) Flashing yellow. A 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 a red and yellow indication.

(7-31-67, art. 7, § 11; 6-23-80; 7-11-83.)

ARTICLE III.
STOPPING, STANDING AND PARKING.

Division 1.
Generally.

Sec. 13-24. In general.

In accordance with the provisions of chapter 40, section 22D of the General Laws (Tercentenary Edition) the city council of the city hereby enacts the following regulations authorizing the removal to a convenient place of vehicles parked or standing in such a manner, or in such areas as are hereinafter described on any way under the control of the city. Vehicles specifically exempt by chapter 40, section 22D shall not however be subject to such removal.

Sec. 13-24.1. Authorization of police.

The moving or towing of any vehicle under the provisions of this article shall be by and at the direction of the chief of police or such other officer(s) of the rank of sergeant or higher as he may from time to time designate.

Sec. 13-24.2. Fees.

The city council hereby imposes upon the owner of any vehicle moved or towed to a convenient place, under the provisions of this article the following fees:

(a) Removal or Towing Fee. Not to exceed that which is provided in or as authorized by statute law.

(b) Storage Fees. Not to exceed that which is provided in or as authorized by statute law.

Sec. 13-24.3. Liability for damage during removal or storage.

The contractor shall be liable to the owner for any damage arising out of negligence caused to a vehicle in the course of removal and storage.

Sec. 13-24.4. General prohibition– Towing zones.

No person shall stand or park or allow, permit or suffer any vehicle registered in his name to stand or park in any of the following places. Vehicles found in violation of the provisions of this section, except those specifically exempt by law, shall be removed to a convenient place under the direction of an officer of the police department and the owner of the vehicle so removed, or towed away, shall be liable to the cost of such removal and storage, if any, as set forth in section 13-24.2 of this article. The owner of any vehicle removed or towed away under the provisions of this section shall also be subject to the penalties provided in chapter 90, section 20A of the General Laws (Tercentenary Edition).

(a) Upon any way in such a manner as to impede the removal or plowing of snow or ice except vehicles parked in accordance with approved regulations governing all night parking.

(b) Within an intersection.

(c) Upon any sidewalk.

(d) Upon any crosswalk.

(e) Upon the roadway in a rural or sparsely settled district.

(f) Upon a roadway where parking is permitted unless both wheels on the right side of the vehicle are within twelve inches of the curb or edge of the roadway; except, that upon those streets which are designated as one-way streets vehicles shall be parked in the direction in which such vehicle is moving and with both wheels on one side of the vehicle within twelve inches of the curb. This shall not apply to streets or parts of streets where angle parking is required by this division.

(g) Upon any street or highway within twenty feet of an intersecting way, except alleys.

(h) In front of any alley, private road or driveway.

(i) Upon any street or highway within ten feet of a fire hydrant.

(j) On the roadway side of any vehicle stopped or parked at the edge or curb of the way.

(k) Upon any roadway where the parking of a vehicle will not leave a clear and unobstructed lane at least ten feet wide for passing traffic.

(l) In any municipal parking area for a period of time in excess of seventy-two consecutive hours.

Sec. 13-24.5. Parking prohibitions– Towing zone.

No person shall stand or park or allow, permit or suffer any vehicle registered in his name to stand or park on any of the ways or parts of ways hereinafter described and during the periods of time set forth. Vehicles found in violation of the provisions of this section, except those specifically exempted by law, shall be removed to a convenient place under the direction of an officer of the police department and the owner of the vehicle so removed, or towed away, shall be liable to the cost of such removal and storage, if any, as set forth in section 13-24.2 of this article. The owner of any vehicle removed or towed away under the provisions of this section shall also be subject to the penalties provided in chapter 90, section 20A of the General Laws (Tercentenary Edition).

(a) Arlington Street (east side) from the intersection of McKay Street one hundred twenty feet in a southerly direction.

(b) Arlington Street (east side) from the intersection of McKay Street one hundred twenty feet in a northerly direction.

(c) Arlington Street (west side) from the intersection of McKay Street one hundred twenty feet in a northerly direction.

(d) Main Street (east side) from Lakeside Avenue three hundred feet in a northerly direction, between the hours of 9:00 P.M. to 6:00 A.M.

(e) Main Street (east side) from the Town Line one hundred fifty feet in a southerly direction, between the hours of 2:00 A.M. to 6:00 A.M.

(f) Main Street (west side) from Ferdinand Passway to Lakeside Avenue, no parking anytime.

(g) Main Street (west side) from Chase Avenue to Pine Grove Avenue one hundred ninety-seven feet in a southerly direction, between the hours of 9:00 P.M. to 6:00 A.M.

(h) Kingman Drive (east side) from Granite Street in a southerly direction for a distance of one thousand one hundred fifty-two feet.

(12-28-81; 3-26-90; 11-22-99; 10-11-05.)

Sec. 13-24.6. Official traffic signs.

The provisions of section 13-24.5 shall be effective only during such time as a sufficient number of official traffic signs bearing the legend "Tow-Away Zone" are installed, erected, maintained and located so as to be visible to approaching drivers, said signs to be appended above or incorporated into the legend of parking prohibition signs.

Sec. 13-24.7. Police to keep record of towed vehicles.

The police department shall keep a record of all vehicles towed or removed under the provisions of this article. Such record shall be retained for one year and shall contain the following information:

(a) The registration of the vehicle;

(b) The location from which it was towed, and time and date of tow order;

(c) The location to which it was moved;

(d) The fee charged for towing;

(e) Name of towing contractor, if any;

(f) Name and rank of officer who authorized towing.

Sec. 13-25. Parking for sale prohibited.

It shall be unlawful for any person to park upon a street or highway any vehicle displayed for sale, nor shall any person stand or stop any vehicle or any device moved by human power upon any public way in the city for the purpose of selling or offering for sale any food, beverage or goods, wares or merchandise therein or therefrom; provided, that this section shall not prevent the stopping of vehicles or devices moved by human power of hawkers and peddlers at dwelling houses for the purpose of selling goods, wares or merchandise to occupants thereof in accordance with the provisions of chapter 101 of the General Laws and regulations made under authority thereof.

(7-31-67, art. 5, §§ 9, 12.)

Sec. 13-26. All night parking.

It shall be unlawful for the driver of any vehicle, other than one acting in an emergency, to park such vehicle on any street for a period of time longer than one hour between the hours of 12:00 A.M. and 6:00 A.M. of any day during the winter parking ban.

The winter parking ban commences on December first, or the date of the first snow storm with an accumulation of at least three inches, whichever comes first, and terminates on April first.

Sec. 13-27. Unlighted parking.

In accordance with the provisions of chapter 90, section 7 of the General Laws, unlighted parking is permitted, wherever parking is not prohibited by this article, within the limits of the way in the following districts:

Church Street, between West Street and Merriam Avenue.

Columbia Street.

Merriam Avenue, from Depot Square to Grove Avenue.

Monument Square, and the streets radiating from it as follows:

Central Street, to Union Street.

Main Street, to North Main Street.

Mechanic Street, to the New York, New Haven and Hartford Railroad track.

Pleasant Street, to Pearl Street.

West Street, to Gardner Place.

New Haven and Hartford Railroad track.

(7-31-67, art. 5, § 11.)

Sec. 13-28. Angle parking.

The city council shall determine upon what streets angle parking shall be permitted and shall mark or sign such streets or cause the same to be marked or signed.

(1) Angle parking allowed on Main Street (east side) from Lakeside Avenue four hundred fifty feet in a northerly direction.

(7-31-67, art. 5, § 8; 10-11-05.)

Sec. 13-29. Handicapped parking spaces.

The city council shall determine the location of parking spaces on public ways reserved for vehicles owned and operated by a disabled veteran or handicapped person whose vehicle bears the distinguishing license plate authorized by section 2, chapter 90 of the General Laws of Massachusetts. Any vehicles parked in such spaces in violation of this section shall be subject to fines as set forth in section 13-33 of the revised ordinances and removal in accordance with Massachusetts General Laws, chapter 40, section 22D.

Reserved parking spaces pursuant to this section are established at the following locations:

One reserved space on Lancaster Street in front of St. Anna Rectory at Pole No. 28.

Sec. 13-30. Repealed by Ordinance passed 12-28-81.

Sec. 13-31. Repealed by Ordinance passed 12-28-81.

Sec. 13-32. Repealed by Ordinance passed 12-28-81.

Sec. 13-33. Schedule of parking fines.

In accordance with the provisions of chapter 90, section 20A of the General Laws (Tercentenary Edition), the city council hereby establishes the following schedule of fines:

Group A.

01. Meter,

02. Overtime parking, Not to exceed ten dollars.

Group B.

03. Wheels over twelve inches from the curb,

04. Bus stop,

05. Taxi stand,

06. Service zone,

07. Sidewalk,

08. No parking zone,

09. Tow-away zone,

10. Within twenty feet on an intersecting way,

11. Double parking,

12. On a crosswalk,

13. Right wheels not at curb - over one foot from curb,

14. Parking within five feet of an alley, private road, or driveway, Not to exceed twenty-five dollars,

Group C.

15. All night parking,

16. Within an intersection,

17. Obstructing snow removal, Not to exceed twenty-five dollars.

Group D.

18. Less than a ten-foot unobstructed lane,

19. Within ten feet of a hydrant.

Group E.

20. Blocking wheelchair ramp, Not to exceed fifty dollars for each offense; and for each subsequent offense, the vehicle may be removed according to the provisions of section 120D of chapter 266 of the General Laws of Massachusetts.

21. Handicapped parking zone, One hundred dollars for each offense; after the second offense, and for each subsequent offense, the vehicle may be removed according to the provisions of section 120D of chapter 266 of the General Laws of Massachusetts.

(12-27-71; 12-12-77; 1-11-82; 1-23-84; 1-8-90; 9-23-91; 5-12-97; 9-25-06.)

Division 2.
Prohibited Parking.

Sec. 13-34. No parking on certain streets.

Upon the following streets or highways or parts thereof parking is prohibited:

Abbott Avenue (both sides), from Lindell Avenue north for one thousand fifty feet to Route 2.

Abbott Avenue (east side), from Massachusetts Electric Pole #3 to Abbott Avenue Massachusetts Electric Pole #4.

Abbott Avenue (east side), from Massachusetts Electric Pole #4 to Highland Avenue Massachusetts Electric Pole #1.

Adams Street (both sides) from Pleasant Street to Union Street.

Adams Street (north side), from Pleasant Street to Cotton Street.

Allen Street (east side), beginning at the intersection of Priest and Morton Streets in a northerly direction for a distance of one hundred eighty feet.

Allen Street (east side) from directly across from Massachusetts Electric Company Pole No. 1 northerly and then westerly for a distance of three hundred thirty-five feet.

Allen Street (west side) from directly across from Massachusetts Electric Company Pole No. 1 northerly and then westerly for a distance of three hundred three feet.

Appleton Place (east side), from West Street for one hundred twenty feet northeast.

Benjamin Street (north side), from three hundred ten feet east of Nile Street for three hundred ninety feet east.

Bernice Avenue (south side), from Main Street to the Little League Ball Field for five hundred feet.

Beth Avenue (both sides) from Central Street for a distance of three hundred seventy-five feet easterly.

Blossom Street (east side), from Stearns Avenue for twenty feet south.

Blossom Street (east side), from West Street northeasterly for a distance of twenty-five feet.

Blossom Street (west side), from Stearns Avenue for forty feet south.

Bowen Place (west side).

Buono Avenue (southeast side), from North Main Street for one hundred forty feet southwest.

Carter Place (north side), from a point two hundred ten feet from West Street for sixty-five feet north.

Carter Place (south side), from a point two hundred twenty-five feet from West Street for fifty feet north.

Carter Street (south side), from Arch Street to Johnson Street.

Central Court (north side), from Central Street westerly for a distance of three hundred feet to terminus.

Central Place (south side), from Central Street easterly for a distance of two hundred sixty-five feet.

Central Street (east side), beginning at a point seventy-five feet southerly from the intersection of Central and Graham Streets and extending to the intersection.

Central Street (east side), from Lancaster Street for eighty-five feet north.

Central Street (east side), from Lancaster Street four hundred five feet south to 112 Central Street.

Central Street (east side), from 124 Central Street eight hundred ninety-six feet south to Graham Street.

Central Street (west side), beginning at a point fifty feet northerly from the intersection of Central and Graham Streets and extending to the intersection.

Central Street (west side), from a point one hundred thirty-five feet southerly from the intersection of Central and Graham Streets and extending to the intersection.

Central Street (west side), from a point three hundred ten feet north from the intersection of Central and Union Streets to the intersection of Central and Union Streets.

Central Street (west side), from the intersection of Central and Union Streets to a point fifty-five feet south from the intersection.

Central Street (west side), from a point two hundred seventy-five feet from the intersection of Pleasant Street and Monument Square to a point three hundred forty-five feet from the intersection of Pleasant Street and Monument Square.

Central Street (west side), from one hundred twenty feet north of Chadwick Place for twenty-eight feet north.

Central Street (west side), from three hundred twenty-five feet south of Union Street southerly for two hundred thirty-five feet.

Central Street (west side), from 739 Central Street to 1123 Central Street.

Chestnut Street (north side), from Barrett Park Drive for a distance of thirty feet east.

Church Street (east side), from Merriam Avenue for sixty feet south.

Church Street (west side), north from Merriam Avenue for two hundred sixty-five feet.

Church Street (west side), from Merriam Avenue south for six hundred feet to the intersection of West Street.

Columbia Street (northwest side), from Main Street for eighty feet southeast.

Columbia Street (south side), from one hundred five feet east of Main Street for eighty feet.

Commercial Drive (east side), from Mechanic Street for a distance of four hundred thirty-five feet northerly.

Commercial Drive (west side), from a point one hundred feet north of Mechanic Street for a distance of three hundred feet northerly.

Commercial Road (both sides), from Route 2 entrance for one thousand two hundred fifty feet south.

Coolidge Place (northwest side), from West Street for two hundred eighty-three feet northeast.

Cottage Street (northwest side), from Pond Street southwesterly a distance of three hundred twenty feet.

Cotton Street (east side), from a point eighty-five feet north of Cottage Street a distance of two hundred eighty-five feet north.

Crawford Street (both sides), from Hamilton Street for a distance of ninety-seven meters northerly.

Crescent Knoll (north side), from Lancaster Street a distance of fifty feet west.

Crestfield Lane (north side) from a point one hundred six feet from West Street for one hundred twenty-nine feet west.

Cross Street (both sides), from 11 to 17 Cross Street.

Cross Street (north side), from Lancaster Street seven hundred ten feet to Central Street.

Crown Street (south side), from South Street four hundred feet east to Central Street.

Damon Street (east side), beginning at a point twenty feet southerly from the intersection of Damon and Reed Streets and extending to the intersection.

Depot Square (west side), from twenty-five feet north of Water Street to Merriam Avenue.

Derwin Street (southeast side), from one hundred feet northeast of Lancaster Street for one hundred sixty-five feet north.

Dewey Street (north side), from Schley Street westerly for a distance of seventy-five feet.

Eaton Place (both sides), from Lancaster Street to its present terminus.

Electric Avenue (west side), from the intersection of Stuart Avenue a distance of six hundred seventy-five feet south.

Elm Hill Avenue (east side), from Lancaster Street south for two hundred ten feet.

Erdmann Way (both sides), from North Main Street to its terminus.

Evans Court (east side), from Exchange Street south one hundred feet.

Exchange Street (east side), from Evans Court to West Street.

Exchange Street (east side), from a point one thousand five hundred fifty feet northwest of Birch Street, in a northwesterly direction for six hundred eighty feet.

Exchange Street (west side), from a point one thousand three hundred fifty feet northwest of Birch Street in a northwesterly direction for a distance of three hundred feet.

Fairmount Place (north side), from Fairmount Street in an easterly direction for one hundred twenty-five feet.

First Street (west side), from twenty feet south of Water Street to the intersection of Water Street.

First Street (east side), beginning twenty feet south of Water Street to the intersection of Water Street.

First Street (east side), beginning twenty feet north of Water Street to the intersection of Water Street.

First Street (west side), from twenty feet north of Water Street to the intersection of Water Street.

Florence Street (south side), beginning at a point across from New England Telephone pole No. 34 east, a distance of thirty-seven feet.

Florence Street (south side), from the corner of Viscoloid Avenue and continuing in an easterly direction for a distance of two hundred twenty feet.

Forest Street (both sides), from Hamilton Street one hundred feet northeast.

Foster Court (west side), from Merriam Avenue for three hundred twenty feet northeast.

Fourth Street (east side), from a point eighty-five feet north of Ridge Road northerly for a distance of seventy feet.

Fruit Street (north and south sides), beginning at a point one hundred twenty feet westerly from the intersection of Fruit and North Main Streets and extending to the intersection.

Fuller Street (west side), from two hundred fifty feet south of Marguerite Avenue for three hundred sixty feet.

Gardner Place (east side), from the corner of West Street and continuing in a northerly direction for a distance of thirty feet.

Graham Street (south side), from Central Street to Union Street.

Graham Street (south side), from Central Street for one hundred twenty feet east.

Graham Street (north side), from a point one hundred ten feet easterly of the intersection of Central and Graham Streets and extending to the intersection.

Graham Street (north side), from Central Street to Union Street.

Granite Street (east and west sides), beginning at the intersection of West Street northerly for a distance of seven hundred feet.

Granite Street (north and south sides), beginning at a point seven hundred feet westerly of West Street, westerly for a distance of eleven hundred feet, between the hours of 8:00 A.M. and 5:00 P.M.

Granite Street (south side), from Colonial Drive a distance of one thousand feet east.

Grant Street (west side), from 30 Grant Street southerly to 76 Grant Street for a distance of six hundred fifty-five feet.

Green Street (east side), from Grand Street three hundred thirty feet north to Doyle Field.

Grove Avenue (east side), from Washington Street a distance of one hundred seventy feet south.

Grove Avenue (west side), from Washington Street a distance of one hundred seventy feet south.

Gustavus Street (both sides), from the intersection of Granite Street north to its present terminus, between 8:00 A.M. and 5:00 P.M. weekdays.

Hamilton Street (east side), from Main Street a distance of two hundred ten feet north.

Hamilton Street (east side), from Main Street for one hundred feet north.

Hamilton Street (south side), from North Main Street for two thousand twenty feet east.

Hamilton Street (north side), from a point two hundred fifteen feet easterly of the intersection of Hamilton and North Main Streets and extending to the intersection.

Hamilton Street (west side), from Main Street for two hundred ten feet north.

Hamilton Street (both sides), from a point sixty-five meters west of Crawford Street to a point ninety-five meters east of Crawford Street.

Hammond Street (south side), from twenty-eight feet west of North Main Street (Route 12) to the intersection of North Main Street.

Haws Street (northeast side), from Mill Street a distance of two hundred fifty feet north.

Haws Street (northwest side), from Mill Street a distance of two hundred fifty feet north.

Haynes Court (east side).

High Street (northeast side), from a point beginning one hundred sixteen feet from the intersection of North Main Street, a distance of one hundred fifty-three feet in a north-westerly direction.

High Street (south side), from North Main Street a distance of sixty feet west.

High Street (southwest side), from a point beginning two hundred sixty-six feet from the intersection of North Main Street, a distance of fifty-eight feet in a southeasterly direction.

Highland Avenue (east side), from Stearns Avenue for twenty feet north.

Highland Avenue (east side), from Stearns Avenue for thirty feet south.

Highland Avenue (west side), from Massachusetts Electric Pole No. 1 to Abbott Avenue Massachusetts Electric Pole No. 3.

Hill Street (both sides), from Pleasant Street to Elm Street between the hours of 6:00 P.M. and 6:00 A.M.

Holman Avenue (south side), from North Main Street, a distance of one hundred feet.

Houghton Court (north side), from North Main Street westerly for two hundred feet.

Howard Street (east side), from Cortland Circle for a distance of fifty-four feet north.

Howard Street (east side), from Cortland Circle for a distance of one hundred twenty feet south.

Howard Street (north side), from Lancaster Street for two hundred ten feet east.

Howe Street (south side), from Mount Pleasant Avenue to Short Street.

Industrial Road (east side), from Fairview Street north to Keystone Drive for six hundred ten feet.

Industrial Road (west side), from Tolman Avenue for one thousand feet north.

Industrial Road (both sides), from Massachusetts Electric Company Pole No. 26 northerly for a distance of two hundred twenty feet.

Industrial Road (east side), from the intersection with Eastern Avenue northerly to the intersection with Jordan Way.

James Court (east side and west side), from Cross Street south a distance of two hundred forty feet.

Jerome Place (easterly side), from Mechanic Street, for two hundred ten feet south.

Jerome Place (north side), from a point two hundred ten feet southwest of Mechanic Street to the intersection of Walker Street, a distance of two hundred fifty feet east.

Johnson Street (east and west sides), from Viscoloid Avenue for a distance of one hundred feet north.

Johnson Street (north side), from Lancaster Street to Middle Street a distance of seven hundred seventy-five feet.

Johnson Street (south side), beginning at a point fifty feet from Lancaster Street for a distance of twenty-five feet in a westerly direction.

Johnson Street (west side), from Viscoloid Avenue for a distance of one hundred feet south.

Johnson Street (both sides), from the corner of Lancaster Street for a distance of twenty feet.

Kingman Drive (east side), from Granite Street southerly for a distance of one thousand one hundred fifty-two feet.

Kingman Drive (west side).

Lakeview Street (northwest side), from proposed June Street southwest to intersection of Lakeview Street and Viscoloid Avenue.

Lancaster Street (east side), beginning at a point thirty-five feet from the southerly corner of intersection with Eaton Place and continuing northerly for a distance of three hundred ten feet to the point of tangency with Central Street.

Lancaster Street (east side), from Johnson Street south a distance of fifty feet.

Lancaster Street (east side), from Johnson Street north a distance of fifty feet.

Lancaster Street (north side), from Ash Street a distance of one hundred twelve feet west.

Lancaster Street (north side), from Fallbrook Avenue to Ash Street a distance of three hundred feet west.

Lancaster Street (north side), from one hundred feet from Johnson Street for one hundred twenty-five feet east.

Lancaster Street (north side), from opposite the intersection of the east side of Elm Hill Avenue with Lancaster Street east to a driveway leading to 488 Lancaster Street, twenty-three feet from the east side of a crosswalk.

Lancaster Street (north side), from Viscoloid Avenue for thirty-five feet north.

Lancaster Street (south side), from Elm Hill Avenue to Sage Avenue for three thousand one hundred fifty feet south.

Lancaster Street (west side), from Central Street for one hundred sixty-six feet south.

Lancaster Street (west side), from Marguerite Avenue for fifty feet north.

Lancaster Street (west side), in front of 199 Lancaster Street, a distance of one hundred seventy-five feet south.

Lancaster Street (north side), from the corner of Sixth Street travelling in an easterly direction for a distance of five feet.

Lancaster Street (south side), from Litchfield Street for a distance of one hundred thirty-five feet in a westerly direction.

Laurel Street (east side), from Spruce Street northerly for two hundred feet.

Laurel Street (east side), from Spruce Street for fifty feet south.

Laurel Street (west side), approximately four hundred feet between Water Street and Spruce Street.

Laurel Street (west side), from Spruce Street for thirty feet south.

Leominster Connector (both sides), from Commercial Drive for a distance of six hundred feet easterly.

Liberty Street (east side), from a point one hundred feet north of Hamilton Street northerly for a distance of one hundred fifteen feet to Benjamin Street, between the hours of 8:00 A.M. and 5:00 P.M.

Liberty Street (east side), from Hamilton Street for one hundred feet.

Liberty Street (west side), from Hamilton Street two hundred fifteen feet north to Benjamin Street.

Lincoln Terrace (east side), for approximately one hundred feet in front of 80 Lincoln Terrace.

Lincoln Terrace (east side), from three hundred sixty feet south of Miller Street south for one hundred twenty-five feet.

Lincoln Terrace (west side), from two hundred ninety feet south of Miller Street south for one hundred feet.

Lincoln Terrace (west side), from the southerly part of lot number 75 Lincoln Terrace south to the end of it.

Litchfield Street (east side), from a point two hundred five feet easterly of the intersection of Central and Litchfield Streets and extending to the intersection.

Litchfield Street (north side), from a point eighty feet easterly of the intersection of Central and Litchfield Streets and extending to the intersection.

Litchfield Street (north side), from a point one hundred fifteen feet westerly from the intersection of Central and Litchfield Streets and extending to the intersection.

Litchfield Street (south side), from a point two hundred forty feet westerly from the intersection of Central and Litchfield Streets and extending to the intersection.

Longwood Avenue (north and south sides), from Lakeview Street for a distance of one hundred feet west.

Lowe Street (both sides), from Pleasant Street for four hundred feet southwest.

Main Street (east side), from High Street a distance of two hundred twenty feet south.

Main Street (east and west sides), beginning at a point one hundred feet from the intersection of Main and Mechanic Streets and proceeding to the intersection of Main and Mechanic Streets.

Main Street (east side), beginning at a point eighty feet southerly from the intersection of Main and Merriam Avenue and proceeding one hundred eighty-five feet to a point which is seventy feet northerly of the intersection of Main Street and Merriam Avenue.

Main Street (east side), from Mill Street for four hundred feet south.

Main Street (east side), from North Street a distance of one hundred eighty feet south.

Main Street (east side), from Pierce Street for one hundred five feet south.

Main Street (east side), in front of 633 Main Street a distance of ninety feet north.

Main Street (northeast side), from Columbia Street on the southeast side for one hundred feet.

Main Street (south side), from Mill Street a distance of one hundred fifty feet east.

Main Street (south side), from Nashua Street for ninety feet west.

Main Street (south side), from a point three hundred feet east from the intersection of Main and Prospect Streets and extending to the intersection.

Main Street (west side), from two hundred ninety-one feet north of Merriam Avenue for a distance of fifty-eight feet.

Main Street (west side), from High Street for two hundred twenty feet south.

Main Street (west side), from Marcello Avenue for three hundred feet south to Marshall Street.

Main Street (west side), beginning at a point eighty feet southerly from the intersection of Main Street and Merriam Avenue and proceeding two hundred feet to a point which is northerly seventy-five feet from the intersection of Main Street and Merriam Avenue.

Main Street (west side), from North Street a distance of one hundred eighty feet south.

Main Street (west side), for a distance of one hundred thirty feet in a southerly direction from Fairview Street.

Main Street (both sides) from the intersection with Haws Street in general northerly/northeasterly direction to the intersection with Pierce Street.

Manning Avenue (south side).

Marshall Street (north side), from Main Street westerly for seventy feet.

Meadowpond Drive (north side), beginning at a point at the intersection of Litchfield Street and Meadowpond Drive westerly for a distance of one hundred thirty feet.

Meadowpond Drive (south side), beginning at a point at the intersection of Litchfield Street and Meadowpond Drive westerly for a distance of one hundred thirty feet.

Mechanic Street (east side), from the Leominster Connector southerly for a distance of eighty-five feet.

Mechanic Street (north side), beginning at a point two hundred ninety feet from the intersection of Main and Mechanic Streets and extending to the intersection of Main and Mechanic Streets.

Mechanic Street (north side), beginning at the intersection of Whitney Street easterly to the intersection of Laurel Street for a distance of six hundred feet.

Mechanic Street (north side), beginning at the intersection of Laurel Street easterly to the intersection of Third Street for a distance of four hundred twenty feet.

Mechanic Street (north side), from Spruce Street to Whitney Street.

Mechanic Street (south side), from Monument Square for eight hundred seventy-eight feet east.

Mechanic Street (north side), from Commercial Drive for a distance of four hundred thirty feet westerly.

Mechanic Street (south side), from Second Avenue for a distance of sixty-five feet west.

Mechanic Street (south side), from Viscoloid Avenue for nine hundred ninety-five feet east to Vinton Street.

Mechanic Street (south side), from a point one hundred fifty feet west of Commercial Drive for a distance of two hundred seventy-five feet westerly.

Mechanic Street (south side), from a point one hundred fifty feet west of Commercial Drive for a distance of four hundred feet southeasterly.

Mechanic Street (west side), beginning at a point three hundred eighty feet north of Whitney Street northerly for a distance of one hundred thirty-five feet.

Mechanic Street (west side), from Whitney Street a distance of one hundred fifteen feet south.

Mechanic Street (west side), from Whitney Street a distance of one hundred fifty feet north.

Mechanic Street (south side), for a distance of twenty feet at the corner of Fifth Street.

Mechanic Street (north side), beginning at a point two hundred forty feet, more or less, from the intersection of Main Street and Mechanic Street in an easterly direction.

Mechanic Street (north side), from Mt. Pleasant Avenue, easterly for two hundred twenty feet, more or less.

Mechanic Street (south side), opposite Spruce Street, easterly for one hundred thirty-two feet, more or less.

Mechanic Street (north side), from 97 Mechanic Street easterly for one hundred forty feet, more or less.

Mechanic Street (south side), beginning at the intersection with Vinton Street in an easterly direction for a distance of twenty feet.

Memorial Drive traffic rotary (both sides), at the terminus of Memorial Drive.

Memorial Drive (east side), from Hospital Road south to the present terminus of the road for two hundred twenty-nine feet.

Memorial Drive (west side), from one hundred forty-five feet south of Hospital Road for one hundred thirty feet.

Merriam Avenue (north side), from Blossom Street and Vine Street.

Merriam Avenue (north side), beginning at the intersection of Merriam Avenue and Columbia Street and extending westerly along the northerly side of Merriam Avenue to a point which is one hundred fifty feet westerly of the intersection of Main Street and Merriam Avenue.

Merriam Avenue (northeast side), from twenty feet east of Orchard Street for a distance of forty feet.

Merriam Avenue (south side), from the intersection of Main Street proceeding along Merriam Avenue to Church Street.

Middle Street (northeast side), from Sixth Street for forty-five feet northwest.

Millett Avenue (southeast side), from Nichols Street southeasterly for three hundred eighty feet.

Millett Avenue (southwest side), from Nichols Street southeasterly for three hundred eighty feet.

Mill Street (north side), from Tremaine Street a distance of fifty feet west.

Mill Street (north side), from Whitney Street east for one thousand five hundred feet to Hawes Street.

Mill Street (south side), from Hawes Street a distance of two hundred fifty feet west.

Mill Street (south side), from Tremaine Street a distance of fifty feet.

Mill Street (south side), for a distance of eight hundred fifty feet to Hawes Street.

Mohawk Drive (both sides), west of Lock Drive to the end.

Mohawk Drive (north side).

Monument Square (west side), from the intersection of Pleasant Street and Monument Square, southerly for a distance of one hundred feet.

Monument Square (west side), beginning at the intersection of Main and West Streets and extending to the intersection of Main and Park Streets.

Monument Square (east side), beginning at a point twenty-five feet from the intersection of Central Street and Manning Avenue and proceeding along the easterly side of Central Street to the point of intersection of Central Street and Monument Square.

Mount Pleasant Avenue (west side), beginning twenty feet northeasterly of Massachusetts Electric Company Pole No. 1 for a distance of eighty-one feet southwesterly.

Mount Pleasant Avenue (west side), from one hundred thirty-five feet south of Mechanic Street for eighty-five feet south.

Nashua Street (east side), from Main Street for one hundred fifty feet south.

Nashua Street (east side), from nine hundred fifty feet north of Lawrence Street for one hundred ten feet north.

Nashua Street (west side), from Main Street for three hundred feet south.

Nashua Street (west side), from one thousand one hundred feet north of Lawrence Street for eighty-five feet north.

Nashua Street (east side), in front of 36 Nashua Street directly across from a building occupied by Quebeco printing.

Nelson Street (south side), from North Main Street for one hundred eighty-five feet west.

Nichols Street (north side).

Nichols Street (south side), from North Main Street for five hundred forty-five feet southwest to Princeton Street.

Nile Street (east side), from Hamilton Street for a distance of seventy-five feet north.

Norman Road (west side), from Wilder Road for seventy-eight feet south.

North Main Street (east side), from 531 North Main Street to the Fitchburg-Leominster line.

North Main Street (east side), from High Street a distance of one hundred seventy feet north.

North Main Street (east side), from Priest Street southerly for one thousand sixty-five feet, from 8:00 A.M. to 6:00 P.M.

North Main Street (east side), from the state highway south of Hamilton Street for one thousand six hundred feet south.

North Main Street (east side), from Washington Street, a distance of two hundred seventy feet south.

North Main Street (northwest side), from Buono Avenue for four hundred forty feet northwest.

North Main Street (northwest side), from Buono Avenue for sixty-five feet southeast.

North Main Street (west side), from the north side of Raymond Place for one hundred thirty feet north.

North Main Street (west side), from High Street a distance of one hundred twenty feet north.

North Main Street (west side), from the state highway south of Hamilton Street for one thousand three hundred feet south.

North Main Street (west side), from Washington Street a distance of two hundred seventy feet south.

North Street (north side), from Main Street a distance of one hundred seventy feet east.

North Street (north side), from Main Street three hundred fifty-five feet west to Elmwood Avenue.

North Street (south side), from Main Street a distance of three hundred fifty-five feet west.

North Street (south side), from Main Street a distance of one hundred seventy feet east.

Oak Avenue (east side), for one hundred feet.

Oak Avenue (north side), from Water Street for ninety feet north.

Oak Street at terminus with Water Street.

Old Farm Road (east and west sides), from Granite Street for a distance of eight hundred thirty feet north.

Park Street (south side), beginning at a point two hundred five feet from the intersection of Park and Main Streets to a point four hundred fifty feet from the intersection of Park and Main Streets.

Park Street (west side), from a point one hundred feet from the intersection of Park and Pleasant Streets to the intersection of Park and Pleasant Streets.

Park Street (north side), beginning at a point fifty feet from the intersection of Park and Main Streets and extending to the intersection of Main and Park Streets.

Pearl Street (south side), in front of the Leominster Home for Old Ladies at 16 Pearl Street.

Phillips Street (north side), from Colburn Street for a distance of one hundred fifty feet.

Pierce Street (south side), from Main Street for two hundred thirty-seven feet east.

Pierce Street (both sides), from Crystal Avenue to Blanchard Street.

Pierce Street (south side), starting at Watson Avenue for a distance of seven hundred ninety-seven feet to the intersection of Blanchard Street.

Pierce Street (north side), starting at Blanchard Street for a distance of seven hundred ninety-seven feet to the intersection of Watson Avenue.

Pine Street (both sides), from Lancaster Street to Mount Pleasant Avenue.

Pine Grove Avenue (both sides).

Pioneer Drive (both sides), in a southerly direction for a distance of one thousand four hundred fifty feet.

Pioneer Industrial Park, in front of 175 Pioneer Industrial Park.

Pleasant Street (east side), beginning at the intersection of Adams Street northerly for a distance of three hundred sixty-eight feet.

Pleasant Street (east side), from Pole No. 52 for a distance of two hundred fourteen feet south.

Pleasant Street (east side), from the intersection of Woodland Road a distance of one hundred seventy-nine feet south.

Pleasant Street (south side), from Monument Square to Adams Street.

Pleasant Street (southeast side), beginning at a point five hundred thirty feet from the intersection of Franklin Street northeasterly a distance of five hundred seventy feet.

Pleasant Street (north side), from a point ninety feet from the intersection of Pleasant and Park Streets to the intersection of Pleasant and Park Streets.

Pleasant Street (west side), beginning at a point one hundred ninety-five feet south of Cottage Street southerly for a distance of one hundred ninety-three feet.

Pleasant Street (west side), from Chestnut Street southerly for one hundred eighty-five feet.

Pleasant Street (west side), from Pleasant Place to Morse Place.

Pleasant Street, in front of 75 and 79 Pleasant Street.

Pond Street (westerly side), beginning at the intersection of Pleasant Street in a northerly direction for a distance of four hundred feet.

Pond Street (west side), from a hydrant located on the west side for two hundred forty-five feet south opposite Rockwells Mill.

Prescott Street (east side), from Water Street north for three hundred sixty-five feet.

Priest Street (north side), from Allen Street a distance of four hundred forty-two feet northwesterly.

Prospect Street (northeasterly side), from Haskell Avenue northwesterly for a distance of four hundred fifty feet to the intersection of Main Street.

Prospect Street (south side), west of 15 Prospect Street to the intersection of Main Street.

River Street (west side), from Main Street for two hundred ten feet north.

River Street (east side), from Main Street for one thousand one hundred eighty feet north to Hamilton Street.

River Street (both sides), from Hamilton Street for a distance of fifty-five meters.

Schley Street (east side), from Dewey Street northerly for a distance of seventy-five feet.

School Street (east side), from West Street north to Merriam Avenue for five hundred seventy-one feet.

Seventh Street (west side), from Water Street a distance of ninety-two feet south.

Short Street (south side), from seventy-eight feet west of Howe Street to Mount Pleasant Avenue.

Sixth Street (northwest side), from Middle Street southwesterly for fifty feet.

Sixth Street (southeast side), from Middle Street northwesterly for fifty feet.

Sixth Street (northwest side), from Carter Street for a distance of forty feet north.

Sixth Street (east side), from the corner of Lancaster Street travelling in a northerly direction for a distance of five feet.

Spruce Street (north side), from Mechanic Street to a point opposite the southwest corner of a building now occupied by W. A. Fuller Lumber Company.

Spruce Street (south side), from driveway of Fuller Lumber Company for twenty-five feet east.

State Street (north side), beginning at the intersection of North Main Street in an easterly direction for a distance of two hundred eighty-five feet.

State Street (south side), beginning at the intersection of North Main Street in an easterly direction for a distance of two hundred eighty-five feet.

Stearns Avenue (north side), from Highland Avenue to Blossom Street, between the hours of 7:30 A.M. to 3:30 P.M.

Stearns Avenue (south side), from Highland Avenue to Blossom Street, between the hours of 7:30 A.M. to 3:30 P.M.

Summer Street (west side), north from Water Street.

Summer Street (south side), beginning at a point between 60 and 68 Summer Street and continuing to Massachusetts Electric Pole No. 6.

Summer Street (east side), from the corner of the ninety-degree bend bordering Carter Park for a distance of approximately one hundred eighty-seven feet heading towards Water Street.

Summer Street (north side), from the corner of the ninety-degree bend bordering Carter Park for a distance of approximately forty-five feet heading west towards Main Street.

Third Street (east side), from Mechanic Street to Spruce Street.

Tremaine Street (northeast side), from Mill Street a distance of eighty feet southeast.

Tremaine Street (southwest side), from Mill Street a distance of eighty feet southeast.

Union Street (east side), from Graham Street for eighty feet north and eighty feet south.

Union Street (north side), from Central Street for one hundred forty-five feet west.

Union Street (south side), from Central Street for one hundred forty-five feet west.

Union Street (south side), from Grant Street for one thousand four hundred feet west.

Union Street (west side), from Sylvan Avenue four hundred twenty-five feet south to Dupont Circle.

Vinton Street (both sides), from intersection with Mechanic Street in a southwesterly direction for a distance of twenty feet.

Viscoloid Avenue (east side), from Johnson Street for one hundred feet north.

Viscoloid Avenue (east side), from Johnson Street one hundred fifty feet south.

Viscoloid Avenue (east side), from Lancaster Street ninety feet north to entrance to parking area.

Viscoloid Avenue (west side), from forty-five feet south of the intersection of Crossman Avenue north to Johnson Street for a distance of one thousand two hundred seventy-five feet.

Viscoloid Avenue (west side), from Lancaster Street for fifty-eight feet north.

Wachusett Street (north side), from Pleasant Street for one hundred thirty-two feet west.

Walker Street (east side), from the intersection of Mechanic Street a distance of two hundred twenty-nine feet to Carter Street.

Walnut Street (north side), from Main Street to Walnut Court.

Washington Street (east side), from a point eighty feet south of Grove Avenue a distance of four hundred feet north.

Washington Street (east side), from Merriam Avenue for one hundred sixty-five feet south.

Washington Street (west side), from a point eighty feet south of Grove Avenue a distance of four hundred feet north.

Washington Street (west side), from Merriam Avenue for one hundred sixty-five feet north.

Washington Street (both sides), from in front of 95 Washington Street to the corner of Walnut Street.

Water Street (east side), beginning at a point one hundred forty feet from the intersection of Mechanic and Water Streets and extending to the intersection of Mechanic and Water Streets.

Water Street (north side), from a point six hundred eighty-two feet east of Summer Street to Whitney Street.

Water Street (north side), from Oak Avenue for fifty feet west.

Water Street (north side), from Summer Street a distance of five hundred thirty-two feet east.

Water Street (north side), from Summer Street to the intersection of Whitney Street.

Water Street (north side), from Whitney Street for thirty feet east.

Water Street (north side), from Whitney Street eighty feet from the present terminus of the present restricted area.

Water Street (north side), from 200 Water Street sixty feet to the intersection of Third Street.

Water Street (north side), from twenty feet east of First Street to the intersection of First Street.

Water Street (north side), from twenty feet west of First Street to the intersection of First Street.

Water Street (south side), from twenty feet west of First Street to the intersection of First Street.

Water Street (south side), from twenty feet east of First Street to the intersection of First Street.

Water Street (south side), from Conrail Crossing to the intersection of Whitney Street.

Water Street (south side), from Whitney Street for seven hundred seventy-five feet east to Second Street.

Water Street (west side), beginning at a point one hundred twenty feet from the intersection of Mechanic and Water Streets and extending to the intersection of Mechanic and Water Streets.

Water Street (west side), from Mechanic Street for sixty feet northeast.

Water Street (west side), from two hundred fifty-seven feet northeast of Mechanic Street for thirty feet northeast.

Water Street (north side), east and west of Oak Avenue and on Oak Avenue at its terminus with Water Street.

Water Street (north side), for a distance of twenty feet east and west of Oak Avenue.

Westland Avenue (north side), from North Main Street a distance of one hundred ten feet west.

West Street (northeast side), from Hall Street for twenty feet southeast and thirty feet northwest.

West Street (north side), beginning at a point sixty feet easterly of the intersection of West and Church Streets and extending westerly one hundred thirty-five feet to a point forty-three feet westerly of the intersection of West and Church Streets.

West Street (north side), beginning at a point eighty-five feet from the intersection of Main and West Streets and extending to the intersection of Main and West Streets.

West Street (north side), beginning five feet from a driveway at 221 West Street for a distance of seventy feet east.

West Street (north side), from School Street for one hundred forty-seven feet east.

West Street (north side), from School Street a distance of fifty feet west.

West Street (north side), from Vine Street four hundred fifty feet west.

West Street (south side), beginning at a point ninety-five feet from the intersection of Main and West Streets and extending to the intersection of Main and West Streets.

West Street (south side), from Exchange Street for one hundred feet east.

West Street (south side), from two hundred forty feet west of the intersection of Cotton Street west to Pond Street.

West Street (west side), from the north side of Exchange Street for fifty-two feet north.

Whitney Street (east side), from Water Street to Power Street.

Whitney Street (east side), from a point one hundred sixty-two feet north of Powers Street northerly to the intersection of Bishop Street.

Whitney Street (east side), one hundred ten feet north from Water Street.

Whitney Street (north side), from Mechanic Street a distance of one hundred sixty-five feet east.

Whitney Street (north side), from Mechanic Street a distance of one hundred thirty-five feet west.

Whitney Street (south side), from Mechanic Street a distance of one hundred sixty-five feet east.

Whitney Street (south side), from Mechanic Street a distance of one hundred thirty-five feet west.

Whitney Street (west side), from Water Street for two hundred feet south.

Whitney Street (west side), from Water Street a distance of two hundred thirty-five feet north.

Wilder Street (both sides).

Wilderwood Avenue (north side), beginning at the end of the parking lot of All Saint's Chapel and continuing to the municipal boundary with the Town of Lunenburg.

Wilderwood Avenue (southern side), beginning at the intersection of Wilderwood Avenue and Main Street and continuing to the municipal boundary with the Town of Lunenburg.

Willard Street (northwest side), from Francis Street southwesterly for a distance of nine hundred fifteen feet.

Willard Street (south side), beginning at a point at the intersection of Central Street and Willard Street easterly for a distance of two thousand six hundred forty feet to the railroad tracks.

Willard Street (southeast side), from Francis Street southwesterly for a distance of nine hundred fifteen feet.

(7-31-67, art. 5, § 2; 9-11-67; 10-23-67; 2-26-68; 3-25-68; 5-13-68; 5-27-68; 6-24-68; 7-8-68; 10-28-68; 11-12-68; 1-27-69; 2-10-69; 2-24-69; 3-10-69; 5-2-69; 5-27-69; 7-28-69; 8-25-69; 10-14-69; 11-24-69; 1-26-70; 4-27-70; 5-11-70; 5-26-70; 6-22-70; 7-27-70; 8-10-70; 9-28-70; 12-14-70; 1-11-71; 3-10-71; 4-26-71; 6-14-71; 7-12-71; 8-9-71; 9-13-71; 9-27-71; 11-22-71; 2-14-72; 3-13-72; 3-27-72; 4-10-72; 4-24-72; 5-22-72; 6-12-72; 7-10-72; 7-24-72; 8-28-72; 10-24-72; 11-27-72; 1-22-73; 3-12-73; 4-9-73; 4-23-73; 5-22-73; 6-25-73; 7-23-73; 10-23-73; 11-12-73; 1-14-74; 4-22-74; 5-13-74; 7-22-74; 9-9-74; 2-24-75; 10-14-75; 1-12-76; 5-10-76; 6-14-76; 9-13-76; 11-22-76; 3-28-76; 10-24-77; 6-26-78; 8-20-79; 4-14-80; 10-14-80; 7-11-83; 8-22-83; 9-9-85; 11-12-85; 1-26-87; 10-26-87; 2-8-88; 10-11-88; 12-12-88; 2-13-89; 6-12-89; 12-11-89; 1-8-90; 1-22-90; 2-12-90; 3-12-90; 3-26-90; 12-10-90; 1-14-91; 3-25-91; 5-13-91; 10-15-91; 2-10-92; 3-23-92; 5-26-92; 12-14-92; 1-25-93; 6-28-93; 7-12-93; 7-26-93; 8-22-94; 9-26-94; 11-28-94; 2-26-96; 7-8-96; 10-28-96; 11-12-96; 5-12-97; 9-22-97; 1-26-98; 5-11-98; 5-26-98; 6-22-98; 9-28-98; 12-14-98; 4-12-99; 11-22-99; 12-27-99; 2-14-00; 7-10-00; 11-26-01; 12-9-02; 1-27-03; 9-13-04; 11-8-04; 2-14-05; 3-14-05; 6-13-05; 8-14-06; 5-14-07; 10-9-07.)

(4-28-08; 7-28-08; 9-22-08; 1-12-09)

Sec. 13-35. Safety zones.

No person shall park a vehicle within twenty feet of either end of a safety zone which is located within thirty feet of the curb or edge of the roadway.

(7-31-67, art. 5, § 3.)

Sec. 13-36. Bus stops.

No person shall park a vehicle other than a bus in a bus stop, nor shall any person park a bus upon any street within a business district at any place other than a bus stop.

(7-31-67, art. 5, § 4.)

Sec. 13-37. Taxicab stands.

No person shall park a vehicle other than a taxicab upon any street within a business district in any taxicab stand for a period of time longer than five minutes except while actually engaged in loading or unloading; provided, that such loading and unloading does not exceed a period of time longer than fifteen minutes.

No person shall park a taxicab upon any street within a business district at any place other than the taxicab stands designated for the use of his taxicabs.

(7-31-67, art. 5, § 5.)

Sec. 13-38. Service zones.

No person shall park a vehicle upon any street in any service zone for a period of time longer than fifteen minutes except while actually engaged in loading or unloading; provided, that such loading and unloading does not exceed a period of time longer than one-half hour.

(7-31-67, art. 5, § 6.)

Sec. 13-38.1. Designated service zone areas.

The following areas are designated as service zones:

Columbia Street (south side), at a point beginning sixty-five feet east of Main Street for a distance of forty feet.

Merriam Avenue (south side), from seventy feet east of Main Street to the intersection of Main Street. Water Street, on the westbound side directly in front of 300 Water Street.

(5-23-79; 11-12-96; 8-13-01.)

Division 3.
Limited Parking.

Sec. 13-39. Repealed by ordinance passed 7-11-83.

Sec. 13-40. One-hour parking– Between 8:00 A.M. and 8:00 P.M.

No person shall park a vehicle for longer than one hour at any time between the hours of 8:00 A.M. and 8:00 P.M. on any of the following streets or parts of streets:

Central Street (westerly side), beginning at a point five hundred sixty feet south of Union Street southerly for a distance of one hundred thirty feet.

Central Street (westerly side), beginning at a point one hundred twenty feet south of Union Street southerly for a distance of two hundred five feet.

Fifth Street (easterly side), beginning at the intersection of Mechanic Street northerly for a distance of one hundred thirty feet.

(10-24-72; 9-9-74.)

Sec. 13-40.1. Same– Between 8:00 A.M. and 5:00 P.M.

No person shall park a vehicle for longer than one hour in the following streets or parts of streets:

Cross Street (north side), from Lancaster Street, westerly for a distance of seven hundred ten feet.

Gustavus Street (both sides), from Granite Street northerly for three hundred thirty feet.

Howe Street (northerly side), from Massachusetts Electric pole No. 3 westerly to New England Telephone pole No. 1.

Nathaniel Street, from Hamilton Street for two hundred twenty feet north.

(6-24-68; 8-25-69; 10-14-69; 11-28-94.)

Sec. 13-40.2. Same– Between 8:00 A.M. and 6:00 P.M.

No person shall park a vehicle for longer than one hour at any time between the hours of 8:00 A.M. and 6:00 P.M. on any of the following streets or parts of streets:

Mechanic Street (west side), beginning at a point four hundred fifteen feet north of Whitney Street northerly for a distance of one hundred twelve feet.

Mechanic Street (west side), beginning at a point one hundred fifty feet north of Whitney Street northerly for a distance two hundred thirty feet.

Sec. 13-41. Same– At all times.

No person shall park a vehicle for longer than one hour at any time in the following streets or parts of streets:

Benjamin Street (north side), from Nile Street for three hundred ten feet east.

Cottage Street (both sides) from Pleasant Street for two hundred thirty feet west.

Cotton Street (east side), from Cottage Street for eighty-five feet north.

Spruce Street (south side), beginning at a point twenty feet east of Third Street for a distance of sixty feet.

(7-31-67, art. 5, § 7L; 10-14-69; 2-13-89; 12-10-90.)

Sec. 13-42. Same– Between 7:00 A.M. and 5:00 P.M.

No person shall park a vehicle for longer than one hour at any time between 7:00 A.M. and 5:00 P.M. on any of the following streets or parts of streets:

Benjamin Street (south side), from Nile Street for seven hundred feet.

Hamilton Street (north side), from North Main Street for one thousand eight hundred eighty feet east to the Route 2 overpass.

Sec. 13-42.1. One and one-half hour parking.

No person shall park a vehicle for a period longer than one and one-half hours between the hours of 10:00 A.M. and 8:00 P.M. on the following streets or parts thereof:

School Street (west side), two hundred fifty feet southerly starting from the corner of Merriam Avenue.

(7-31-67, art. 5, § 7A.)

Sec. 13-43. Two-hour parking– Between 8:00 A.M. and 6:00 P.M. all days except Thursday.

No person shall park a vehicle for longer than two hours at any time between 8:00 A.M. and 6:00 P.M. except on Thursday when the hours shall be from 8:00 A.M. to 9:00 P.M. on any day except Sunday and legal holidays in the following streets or parts of streets:

Columbia Street (north side), opposite buildings numbered 8 to 16.

Spruce Street (north side), one hundred fifty feet east from the right-of-way to Tilton and Cook Company.

Water Street (north side), for two hundred ten feet southwest from the bridge.

(7-31-67, art. 5, § 7A; 9-27-82; 11-8-82.)

Sec. 13-44. Same– Between 8:00 A.M. and 6:00 P.M.

No person shall park a vehicle for longer than two hours at any time between 8:00 A.M. and 6:00 P.M. on any of the following streets or parts of streets:

First Street (east side), from Spruce Street to Water Street.

Lancaster Street (north side), from in front of 488 Lancaster Street to and including the front of 508 Lancaster Street.

Pleasant Street (west side), from six hundred sixty-two feet north of Cottage Street south to Pearl Street.

Spruce Street (south side), from Laurel Street to Wells Court.

(7-31-67, art. 5, §§ 7B, 7C.)

Sec. 13-45. Same– Between 8:00 A.M. and 8:00 P.M.

No person shall park a vehicle on the north side of Spruce Street, from the driveway west of the factory of Guy P. Harvey and Son Corporation east to Whitney Street for any longer than two hours at any time between 8:00 A.M. and 8:00 P.M.

No person shall park a vehicle for longer than two hours at any time between 8:00 A.M. and 8:00 P.M. on both sides of Spruce Street, from Fourth Street to Fifth Street.

No person shall park a vehicle for longer than two hours at any time between 8:00 A.M. and 8:00 P.M. on the north side of Water Street from a point five hundred thirty-two feet east of Summer Street for one hundred fifty feet east.

(7-31-67, art. 5, § 7D; 12-13-82; 7-26-93.)

Sec. 13-46. Same– Between 6:00 A.M. and 6:00 P.M.

No person shall park a vehicle for longer than two hours at any time between 6:00 A.M. and 6:00 P.M. on Central Street (east side), from four hundred five feet south of Lancaster Street for a distance of two hundred thirty-four feet south.

Sec. 13-47. Same– At all times except Sunday.

No person shall park a vehicle on the east side of Lancaster Street, from Viscoloid Avenue south to Howard Street for any longer than two hours on any day except Sunday.

(7-31-67, art. 5, § 7F.)

Sec. 13-48. Same– Between 8:00 A.M. and 4:00 P.M.

No person shall park a vehicle for a period longer than two hours between 8:00 A.M. and 4:00 P.M. on both sides of West Street, from School Street to Gardner Place.

(7-31-67, art. 5, § 7I.)

Sec. 13-49. Same– Between 7:00 A.M. and 5:00 P.M.

No person shall park a vehicle for longer than two hours at any time between 7:00 A.M. and 5:00 P.M. on any of the following streets or parts of streets:

Church Street (east side), beginning at the intersection of Merriam Avenue northerly for a distance of one hundred feet.

Nelson Street (both sides), from North Main Street to Memorial Drive.

(7-31-67, art. 5, § 7J; 6-9-80.)

Sec. 13-49a. Same– At all times.

No person shall park a vehicle for longer than two hours at any time in the following streets or parts of streets:

Water Street (north side) beginning thirty feet west of the Water Street Bridge and continuing in a westerly direction for a distance of one hundred eighty-two feet.

Sec. 13-50. One-half hour parking– Between 8:00 A.M. and 6:00 P.M.

No person shall park a vehicle for longer than one-half hour at any time between 8:00 A.M. and 6:00 P.M. on any of the following streets or parts of streets:

(7-31-67, art. 5, § 7G; 7-28-69; 6-26-78; 1-23-84; 9-9-85; 7-14-86.)

Sec. 13-51. Same– Between 8:00 A.M. and 8:00 P.M.

No person shall park a vehicle for longer than one-half hour at any time between 8:00 A.M. and 8:00 P.M. on any of the following streets or parts of streets:

Lancaster street (northeast side), from one hundred eighty-five feet northwest of Cross Street.

Pleasant Street (west side), beginning at the intersection of Cottage Street southerly for a distance of four hundred five feet to the intersection of Franklin Street.

Walnut Street (north side), from three hundred thirty feet west of Grove Avenue for one hundred feet west.

West Street (northeast side), from Coolidge Place for three hundred twenty feet northwest.

(1-27-69; 4-27-70; 7-27-70; 5-10-71; 6-24-74.)

Sec. 13-51.1. Same– Between 8:00 A.M. and 10:00 P.M.

No person shall park a vehicle for longer than one-half hour at any time between 8:00 A.M. and 10:00 P.M. on any of the following streets or parts of streets:

Fourth Street (east side), from Mechanic Street for fifty-eight feet north.

Fourth Street (west side), from Mechanic Street for one hundred twenty-five feet north.

Mechanic Street (north and south side), from Fifth Street for two hundred sixty-eight feet west to Fourth Street.

Sec. 13-51.2. Same– Between 8:00 A.M. and 5:00 P.M.

No person shall park a vehicle for longer than one-half hour at any time between 8:00 A.M. and 5:00 P.M. on any of the following streets or parts of streets:

Adams Street (south side), from Pleasant Street for one hundred twenty-five feet in a southeasterly direction.

Sec. 13-51.3. Same– At all times.

No person shall park a vehicle for longer than one-half hour at any time in the following streets or parts of streets:

Church Street (east side), beginning at the intersection of Colburn Court northerly for a distance of one hundred feet.

First Street (west side), from Water Street to Spruce Street.

Mechanic Street, beginning at pole #2 easterly for one hundred twenty feet, more or less.

Mechanic Street (north side), from one hundred forty feet west of Spruce Street for one hundred five feet west.

Mechanic Street (south side), from seventy-five feet east of Spruce Street for fifty feet.

Mechanic Street (south side), beginning at a point fifty feet east of telephone pole #1 and continuing easterly to a point ten feet west of the existing fire hydrant across from Spruce Street.

Mechanic Street (southeast side), from Jerome Place to Walker Street for three hundred three feet.

Pleasant Street (southeast side), beginning at a point three hundred fifty-five feet from the intersection of Franklin Street northeasterly a distance of one hundred seventy-five feet.

Prospect Street (southwest side), beginning at a point two hundred feet from the intersection of Main Street southeasterly for a distance of one hundred five feet.

Spruce Street (north side), from Third Street a distance of seventy-seven feet west.

Water Street (south side), beginning at a point twenty feet east from the intersection of Third Street and continuing easterly for twenty-five feet.

(6-26-78; 3-14-83; 11-12-85; 7-14-86; 2-13-89; 1-22-90; 7-12-93; 8-12-96; 11-10-97; 11-8-04.)

Sec. 13-51.4. Same– Between 6:00 A.M. and 6:00 P.M.

No person shall park a vehicle for longer than one-half hour at any time between 6:00 A.M. and 6:00 P.M. on the easterly side of Grove Avenue beginning two hundred ten feet from the intersection of Merriam Avenue for a distance of ninety feet in a northerly direction.

Sec. 13-52. Fifteen-minute parking.

No person shall park a vehicle for longer than fifteen minutes at any time between 8:00 A.M. and 8:00 P.M. on the southeast side of Sixth Street, from Middle Street for fifty-five feet southwest.

No person shall park a vehicle for longer than fifteen minutes at any time between 8:00 A.M. and 8:00 P.M. on the northeasterly side of High Street, beginning thirty-eight feet from the intersection of North Main Street for a distance of forty-eight feet in a northwesterly direction.

No person shall park a vehicle for longer than fifteen minutes at any time between 8:00 A.M. and 8:00 P.M. on the southwesterly side of Lancaster Street, beginning at a point forty feet from the intersection of Florence Street for a distance of forty-two feet in a northwesterly direction.

No person shall park a vehicle for longer than fifteen minutes at any time between 8:00 A.M. and 8:00 P.M. on the west side of Main Street between the intersection of Merriam Avenue and Main Street and the driveway of the post office on the west side of Main Street.

No person shall park a vehicle for longer than fifteen minutes at any time during the drop-off and pick-up times opposite the business at 420 Lancaster Street, on the south side of Lancaster Street between the intersections with Litchfield Street and Elm Hill Avenue.

(7-31-67, art. 5, § 7M; 1-12-76; 10-24-77; 5-11-81; 12-10-90; 8-12-96; 8-14-06.)

Sec. 13-52.1. Ten-minute parking.

No person shall park a vehicle for longer than ten minutes at any time between 8:00 A.M. and 8:00 P.M. on the southerly side of Merriam Avenue, from one hundred seventy-one feet east of Main Street for seventy feet.

Sec. 13-52.2. Repealed by ordinance passed 9-9-85.

Division 4.
Metered Parking.

Sec. 13-53. Installation, maintenance and operation of meters.

The mayor is hereby authorized and empowered to contract in accordance with provisions of chapter 40 of the General Laws for the acquisition, installation and maintenance of parking meters provided for by this article.

The mayor shall also be authorized and empowered to install parking meters within the areas described in this division or cause the same to be installed. The meters shall be placed at intervals of not less than twenty feet apart and not less than fourteen inches from the face of the curb adjacent to individual meter spaces. Meters shall be so constructed as to display a signal showing legal parking upon deposit therein of the proper coin or coins of the United States as indicated by instructions on such meters and for such period of time as is or shall be indicated by this division. Such signal shall remain in evidence until expiration of the parking period designated, at which time a dropping of a signal automatically or some other mechanical operation shall indicate expiration of such parking period.

(7-31-67, art. 5, § 13.)

Sec. 13-54. Designation and marking of spaces.

The mayor is hereby authorized and empowered to establish or cause to be established parking meter spaces in such parking meter zones as are specified in this division or as may be hereafter fixed by ordinance and to indicate the same by white markings upon the surface of the highway. Nothing contained in this section shall be construed to prohibit the city council from making provisions for bus stops, taxicab stands, service zones and loading zones as authorized by other sections of this chapter on any street or portion of a street which has been or may hereafter be designated herein as a parking meter zone.

(7-31-67, art. 5, § 13.)

Sec. 13-55. Parking within spaces; fees.

Whenever any vehicle shall be parked adjacent to a parking meter, the owner or operator of such vehicle shall park within the space designated by street marking lines, upon entering such space shall immediately deposit or cause to be deposited in such meter the required coin of the United States for the maximum legal parking period or proportional period thereof as indicated or shown on the meter and, if so required, shall set the mechanism in motion.

The fee for the maximum time shall be in the amount designated on each meter.

(7-31-67, art. 5, § 13.)

Sec. 13-55.1. Parking in unmarked areas– Prohibited in municipal or off-street parking areas.

Whenever any vehicle shall be parked in a municipal or off-street parking area, such vehicle shall park within the spaces designated by marked pavement lines. Such lines will be drawn on a plan by the city engineer under the approval of the chief of police or his designee.

Any vehicle not so parked or parked in any other part of these areas where there are no pavement markings shall be in violation and shall be considered to be parked in a no parking zone.

Sec. 13-56. Deposit of additional coins to extend parking time prohibited.

It shall be unlawful for any person to deposit or cause to be deposited in a parking meter any coin for the purpose of permitting the vehicle of which he is in charge to remain in a parking meter space beyond the maximum period of time allowed in a particular zone.

(7-31-67, art. 5, § 13.)

Sec. 13-57. Parking outside of meter spaces.

It shall be unlawful for any person to park a vehicle within a parking meter space unless such vehicle is wholly within the painted lines adjacent to such meter.

(7-31-67, art. 5, § 13.)

Sec. 13-58. Tampering with, injuring, etc., meter; use of slugs, etc.

It shall be unlawful for any unauthorized person to tamper with, break, injure or destroy any parking meter or to deposit or cause to be deposited in such meter any slug, device or metallic substance or any other substitute for the coins required.

(7-31-67, art. 5, § 13.)

Sec. 13-59. Parking of commercial vehicles.

Operators of commercial vehicles may park in a metered space without depositing a coin for a period not to exceed thirty minutes for the purpose of loading or unloading. Parking in excess of this time limit without depositing the proper coin shall be deemed a violation of the provisions of this division.

(7-31-67, art. 5, § 13.)

Sec. 13-60. Collection and disposition of money.

It shall be the duty of the mayor to designate a person or persons to make regular collections of the money deposited in the parking meters, and it shall be the duty of such member so designated to remove from the parking meters the sealed containers therein containing the coins so deposited and to deliver such sealed containers with the seals unbroken to the city treasurer in a separate account to be known as the city parking meter account and designated in the ledger as parking meter fees.

All fees received by the city from the operation and use of parking meters shall be used as provided by chapter 40 of the General Laws.

(7-31-67, art. 5, § 13; 9-9-85.)

Sec. 13-61. Repealed by ordinance passed 6-24-74.

Sec. 13-62. Parking meter zones– Two hours.

No person shall park a vehicle in a parking meter space for longer than two hours between 8 A.M. and 6 P.M. on any of the following streets or parts of streets on any day except Saturdays, Sundays and legal holidays: Central Street (west side), from a point one hundred feet southerly from the intersection with Pleasant Street to a point two hundred seventy-five feet from the intersection with Pleasant Street.

Central Street (west side), from a point three hundred forty-five feet from the intersection of Pleasant Street and Monument Square to a point three hundred ten feet from the intersection of Central and Union Streets.

Central Street (east side), from a point two hundred seventy-five feet from the southerly corner of Eaton Place and Lancaster Street and proceeding northerly along the easterly side of Central Street to a point thirty feet southerly from the intersection of Central Street and Manning Avenue.

Church Street (east side), from West Street to the police station.

Depot Square (west side), from twenty-five feet from Water Street north to Merriam Avenue.

Main Street (east and west sides), beginning at a point one hundred feet from the intersection of Main and Mechanic Streets and proceeding to a point eighty feet southerly from the intersection of Main Street and Merriam Avenue.

Main Street (east side), from a point seventy feet north from the intersection of Main Street and Merriam Avenue to a point twenty-five feet south from the intersection of Main and Columbia Streets.

Main Street (west side), from a point eighty feet northerly from the intersection of Main Street and Merriam Avenue and extending northerly along Main Street to a point one hundred forty-five feet from the intersection of Main Street and Merriam Avenue.

Mechanic Street (north side), from three hundred sixty feet easterly from the intersection of Main Street and Mechanic Street to Conrail Railroad.

Merriam Avenue (north side), to a point twenty feet from corner of Church Street and to a point twenty feet from Grove Avenue, running westerly for a distance of five hundred and thirty-five feet.

Merriam Avenue (south side), from a point seventy feet easterly of the intersection of Main Street and Merriam Avenue and extending in an easterly direction to a point which is opposite to the intersection of the westerly side of Columbia Street and Merriam Avenue.

Park Street (west side), from a point one hundred feet from the intersection of Park and Pleasant Streets to a point two hundred five feet from the intersection of Park and Pleasant Streets.

Park Street (east side), from a point fifty feet from the intersection of Park Street and Monument Square to a point two hundred sixty-five feet from the intersection of Park Street and Monument Square.

Pearl Street (north side) to a point two hundred twenty-six feet westerly of the intersection of Pleasant Street and Pearl Street.

Pearl Street (south side) to a point eighty-two feet westerly of the intersection of Pleasant Street with Pearl Street.

Pleasant Street (north side), from a point ninety feet from the intersection of Pleasant and Park Streets to a point one hundred sixty feet from the intersection of Pleasant and Park Streets.

West Street (north side), from a point eighty-five feet from the intersection of West and Main Streets and extending westerly along West Street to a point sixty feet from the intersection of West and Park Streets.

West Street (north side), from a point forty-three feet west of Church Street and extending westerly forty-two feet.

West Street (north side), from a point twenty feet west from the intersection of School Street westerly to a point twenty feet east from Gardner Place.

West Street (north side), to a point four hundred ninety-five feet westerly of the intersection of West Street with Main Street.

West Street (south side), to a point five hundred forty-eight feet westerly of the intersection of West Street with Main Street.

West Street (south side), from a point ninety-five feet from the intersection of West and Main Streets and proceeding in a westerly direction to a point which is two hundred sixty-five feet from the intersection of Main and West Streets.

West Street (south side), from a point ninety feet from the intersection of Park and West Streets and extending westerly eighty feet.

(7-31-67, art. 5, § 13; 7-8-68; 4-27-70; 4-22-74; 5-13-74; 7-12-79; 7-11-83; 9-9-85; 6-12-89, 3-26-90.)

Sec. 13-62.1. Same– Two hours.

No person shall park a vehicle in a parking meter space for longer than two hours between 8:00 A.M. and 6:00 P.M., except on Thursday when the hours shall be from 8:00 A.M. to 9:00 P.M.. on any of the following streets or parts of streets on any day except Sundays and legal holidays:

Pleasant Street (west side), beginning at a point fifty-five feet north of Adams Street northerly for a distance of three hundred thirteen feet.

Sec. 13-63. Repealed by ordinance passed 6-24-74.

Sec. 13-64. Same– Thirty minutes.

No person shall park a vehicle in a parking meter space for longer than one-half hour between 8:00 A.M. and 6:00 P.M., except on Thursday when the hours shall be from 8:00 A.M. to 9:00 P.M., on the south side of Columbia Street, from twenty feet east of Main Street for forty-five feet east.

No person shall park a vehicle in a parking meter space for longer than one-half hour between 8:00 A.M. and 6:00 P.M., except on Thursday when the hours shall be from 8:00 A.M. to 9:00 P.M. on the north side of Mechanic Street, from twenty feet east of the intersection of Water and Mechanic Streets for one hundred fifty-two feet east.

(2-24-69; 5-23-79; 10-11-88.)

Sec. 13-65. Enforcement of division.

It shall be the duty of the mayor's designee and the Leominster police chief to enforce any provisions of this division.

(7-31-67, art. 5, § 13; 9-9-85.)

Sec. 13-66. Penalties.

Any person who violates any parking provisions of this article shall be subject to the penalties provided by section 13-33.

(7-31-67, art. 5, § 13; 1-14-74.)

Division 5.
Off-Street Parking Zones.

Sec. 13-66.1. No-parking and two-hour parking zones established.

(a) A no-parking zone is hereby established in the area described in this section during the hours of 7:00 A.M. to 9:30 A.M., Monday through Friday.

(b) Two-hour parking is established in the Manning Avenue Municipal Parking Area.

(c) Two-hour parking is hereby established in the Merriam Avenue-Colbum Court off-street parking area, Monday through Friday, and unrestricted parking during Saturdays and from June 15th to August 30th, inclusive.

(6-24-74; 11-25-74; 12-18-75; 9-13-76; 12-12-77; 1-14-80; 9-9-85; 6-22-87; 4-24-95; 7-8-96.)

Sec. 13-66.2. One-half hour parking zones established.

(a) One-half hour parking is hereby established for six vehicles in the municipal parking area, West Street, adjacent to City Hall, Monday through Friday, and unrestricted parking during Saturdays.

Sec. 13-66.3. Repealed by ordinance passed 9-9-85.

Sec. 13-66.4. Repealed by ordinance passed 9-9-85.

Sec. 13-66.5. Repealed by ordinance passed 9-9-85.

Sec. 13-66.6. Senior citizen parking.

No person, other than senior citizens, shall park in the following described area of the Manning Avenue off-street parking lot between the hours of 8:00 A.M. and 5:00 P.M.:

"Beginning at a point 10 feet east of an angle in the southerly sideline of Mechanic Street, said angle being opposite Water Street; thence South 61° 30' East 104 feet along the southerly sideline of said Mechanic Street to an angle; thence South 28° 30' West 60 feet to an angle; thence North 61° 30' West 104 feet to an angle; thence North 28° 30' East 60 feet to the place of beginning."

Sec. 13-66.7. No parking outside of designated spaces.

No person shall park a motor vehicle in an off-street parking area outside of a space designated by marked pavement lines approved by the chief of police.

Sec. 13-66.8. Handicapped parking.

(a) 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 be required to 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 section 2 of chapter 90 of the General Laws of Massachusetts and according to the following formula:

If the number of parking spaces in any such area is more than fifteen but not more than twenty-five, one parking space; more than twenty-five but not more than forty, five percent of such spaces but not less than two; more than forty but not more than one hundred, four percent of such spaces but not less than three; more than one hundred but not more than two hundred, three percent of such spaces but not less than four; more than two hundred but not more than five hundred, two percent of such spaces but not less than six; more than five hundred but not more than one thousand, one and one-half percent of such spaces but not less than ten; more than one thousand but not more than two thousand, one percent of such spaces but not less than fifteen; more than two thousand but less than five thousand, three-fourths of one percent of such spaces but not less than twenty; and more than five thousand, one-half of one percent of such spaces but not less than thirty.

(b) Parking spaces designated as reserved under the provisions of paragraph (a) 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. Unauthorized Vehicles May be Removed at Owner's Expense"; 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 a handicapped person; and shall be twelve feet wide or two eight-foot wide areas with four feet of cross hatch between them.

(c) No person shall leave an unauthorized vehicle within parking spaces designated for use by disabled veterans or handicapped person or in such manner as to obstruct a curb ramp designed for use by handicapped persons as a means of egress to a street or public way.

(10-11-83; 1-23-84.)

Sec. 13-66.9. Electronic metered parking.

The mayor is hereby authorized and empowered to contract in accordance with provisions of chapter 40 of the General Laws for the acquisition, installation and maintenance of parking meters provided for by this article.

The mayor shall be also authorized and empowered to install electronic parking meters within the area described in this division or cause the same to be installed. The meters shall be placed in spaces designated by the mayor in that part of the Merriam Avenue and Colburn Court parking area, bounded and described as follows:

Beginning at a point on the northeasterly sideline of Colburn Court, said point being North 50° 12' west 135.59 feet from the northwesterly sideline of Main Street; thence south 40° 03' west 140.00 feet to an angle; thence north 47° 02' east 50.00 feet to an angle; thence north 40° 03' east 140.00 feet to an angle; thence south 50° 12' east 50.00 feet to the place of beginning.

The mayor is also hereby authorized and empowered to establish a plan for permit parking within the parking area bounded and described in the preceding paragraph.

(9-9-85; 8-12-91.)

Sec. 13-66.10. Designation and marking of spaces.

The mayor is hereby authorized and empowered to establish or cause to be established parking meter spaces within the Colburn and Merriam Avenue area as specified in this division or as may be hereafter fixed by ordinance and to indicate the same by white markings upon the surface of the highway. Nothing contained in this section shall be construed to prohibit the city council from making provisions for bus stops, taxicab stands, service zones and loading zones as authorized by other sections of this chapter on any portion of the enclosed parking.

(7-31-67, art. 5, § 13; 9-9-85.)

Sec. 13-66.11. Parking within spaces; fees.

Whenever any vehicle shall enter that part of the Merriam Avenue and Colburn Street parking area the owner or operator of such vehicle shall park within the space or spaces designated by street marking lines. Upon entering said parking area shall immediately deposit or cause to be deposited in such meter the required coin of the United States for the legal parking period or proportional period thereof as indicated or shown on the meter and, if so required, shall set the mechanism in motion.

The fee for the selected time shall be in the amount designated on each meter.

Such a meter deposit shall not be required if the owner or operator of the vehicle has been issued a permit to park in said area and the permit is conspicuously displayed upon the vehicle, in accordance with the plan for permit parking established by the mayor.

(7-13-67, art. 5, § 13; 9-9-85; 8-12-91.)

Sec. 13-66.12. Parking in unmarked areas– Prohibited in municipal off-street areas.

Whenever any vehicle shall be parked in a municipal or off-street parking area known as the Colburn and Merriam Avenue area or within the spaces designated by marked pavement lines. Such lines will be drawn on a plan by the city engineer under the approval of the chief of police or his designee.

Any vehicle not so parked or parked in any other part of those areas where there are no pavement markings or signs shall be in violation and shall be considered to be parked in a no parking zone.

(11-14-77; 9-9-85.)

Sec. 13-66.13. Tampering with, injuring, etc.– Meter use of slugs, etc.

It shall be unlawful for any unauthorized person to tamper with, break, injure or destroy any parking meter or to deposit or cause to be deposited in such meter any slug, device or metallic substance or any other substitute for the coins required.

(7-31-67, art. 5 § 13; 9-9-85.)

Sec. 13-66.14. Collection and disposition of money.

It shall be the duty of the mayor to designate a person or persons to make regular collections of the money deposited in the parking meters, and it shall be the duty of such members so designated to remove from the parking meters the sealed containers therein containing the coins so deposited and to deliver such sealed containers with the seals unbroken to the city treasurer or designated bank in a separate account to be known as the city parking meter account and designated in the ledger as parking meter fees.

All fees received by the city from the operation and use of parking meters shall be used as provided by chapter 40 of the General Laws.

(7-13-67, art. 5 § 13; 9-9-85.)

Sec. 13-66.15. Enforcement of division.

It shall be the duty of the mayor's designee and Leominster police chief to enforce any provision of this division.

(7-13-67, art. 5 § 13; 9-9-85.)

Sec. 13-66.16. Penalties.

Any person who violates any parking provision of this article shall be subject to the penalties provided by section 13-33.

(7-13-67, art. 5 § 13; 1-14-74; 9-9-85.)

ARTICLE IV.
OPERATION OF VEHICLES.

Sec. 13-67. Speed.

No person operating a motor vehicle on any way shall run it at a rate of speed greater than is reasonable and proper, having regard to traffic and the use of the way and the safety of the public. Unless a way is otherwise posted in accordance with Massachusetts General Laws, chapter 90, section 18, it shall be prima facie evidence of a rate of speed greater than is reasonable and proper as aforesaid (1) on any other way outside a thickly settled or business district at a rate of speed exceeding forty miles per hour for a distance of one-quarter of a mile, or (2) inside a thickly settled or business district at a rate of speed exceeding thirty miles per hour for a distance of one-eighth of a mile, or (3) within a school zone established by the city as provided in Massachusetts General Laws, chapter 85, section 2, at a rate of speed exceeding twenty miles per hour. If a speed limit has been duly established upon any way, operation of a motor vehicle at a rate of speed in excess of such limit shall be prima facie evidence that such speed is greater than reasonable and proper.

Sec. 13-68. Keeping to the right.

Upon all roadways the driver of a vehicle shall drive in the lane nearest the right side of the roadway when such lane is available for travel except when overtaking another vehicle or when preparing for a left turn.

Upon such roadways as are divided by a parkway, grass plot, preservation viaduct, subway or any other structure or area, drivers shall keep to the right of such a division except when otherwise directed by an officer, signs, signals or markings.

(7-31-67, art. 7, §§ 2, 13.)

Sec. 13-69. Overtaking and passing.

The driver of a vehicle shall not overtake and pass a vehicle proceeding in the same direction unless there is sufficient clear space ahead on the right side of the roadway to permit the overtaking to be completed without impeding the safe operation of any vehicle ahead. Any person convicted of a violation of this rule shall be punished by a fine of fifty dollars for each offense.

(7-31-67, art. 7, § 3; 11-14-94.)

Sec. 13-70. Driver to give way to overtaking vehicle.

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.

(7-31-67, art. 7, § 4.)

Sec. 13-71. Obstructing traffic prohibited.

No person shall drive in such a manner as to obstruct unnecessarily the normal movement of traffic upon any street or highway. Officers are hereby authorized to require any driver who fails to comply with this section to drive to the side of the roadway and wait until such traffic as has been delayed has passed.

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.

(7-31-67, art. 7, § 5.)

Sec. 13-72. Following too closely.

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.

(7-31-67, art. 7, § 6.)

Sec. 13-73. Slow vehicles to stay two hundred feet apart.

Upon roadways less than twenty-seven feet wide and upon which vehicular traffic is permitted to operate in both directions, the driver of any slow moving vehicle when travelling outside of a business or residential district shall not follow another slow moving vehicle within two hundred feet; provided, that this section shall not be construed to prevent such slow moving vehicle from overtaking and passing another slow moving vehicle; provided further, that this section shall not apply to funerals or other lawful processions.

(7-31-67, art. 7, § 7.)

Sec. 13-74. Procedure for stopping, turning, etc.

The driver of any vehicle before starting, stopping, or turning from a direct line or backing shall first see that such movement can be made in safety. If the operation of another vehicle should be affected by a stopping or turning movement, the driver of such vehicle shall be given a plainly visible signal as required by the following section.

(7-31-67, art. 7, § 8.)

Sec. 13-75. Repealed by ordinance passed 1-14-74.

Sec. 13-76. Repealed by ordinance passed 6-12-79.

Sec. 13-77. Stop signs.

In accordance with the provisions of chapter 89, section 9, of the General Laws of Massachusetts, the following streets are designated as stop streets at the intersections and in the direction indicated:

Abbott Avenue, against north and southbound drivers at Lindell Avenue.

Abbott Avenue, against southeast bound drivers at Blossom Street.

Adams Street, against northwest and southeast bound drivers at Cotton Street.

Adams Street, against northwest and southeast bound drivers at Pleasant Street.

Adams Street, against southeast bound drivers at Union Street. Anthony Street, against westbound drivers at Pleasant Street.

Amidio Drive, against eastbound drivers at the intersection with Antonia Court.

Argentine Street, against northbound drivers at Grant Street.

Arlington Street, against north and southbound drivers at Steams Avenue.

Arlington Street, against north and southbound drivers at Walnut Street.

Barnes Street, against southwest bound drivers at Lancaster Street.

Barrett Park Drive, against southbound drivers at Chestnut Street.

Bel Air Heights, against eastbound drivers at Old Mill Road.

Bel Air Heights, against northeast bound drivers at Old Mill Road.

Bella Villa Avenue, against westbound drivers at Main Street.

Bernice Avenue, against westbound drivers at Main Street.

Beth Avenue, against southbound drivers at Willard Street.

Beth Avenue (north side), against westbound drivers at Central Street.

Bicentennial Avenue, against westbound drivers at Legate Hill Road.

Bicentennial Drive, against northeast bound drivers at Old Mill Road.

Birch Street, against northbound drivers at Exchange Street.

Birch Street, against southbound drivers at Elm Street.

Birchcroft Road, against southbound drivers at Union Street.

Biscayne Street, against northbound drivers at Union Street.

Biscayne Street, against southbound drivers at Grant Street.

Blanchard Street, against northwest bound drivers at Crystal Avenue.

Blanchard Street, against southeast bound drivers at Crystal Avenue.

Blossom Extension, against northbound drivers at Steams Avenue.

Blossom Street, against northeast and southwest bound drivers at Merriam Avenue.

Blossom Street, against southwest bound drivers at West Street.

Boutelle Street, against northbound drivers at West Street.

Bowen Place, against northbound drivers at West Street.

Braeburn Circle, against southbound drivers at Rumbrook Road.

Brook Street, against northbound drivers at Lindell Avenue.

Buono Avenue, against northbound drivers at North Main Street.

Burrage Avenue, against westbound drivers at Main Street.

Burrage Avenue, against eastbound drivers at Pierce Street.

Campbell Avenue, against eastbound drivers at Washington Street.

Campbell Avenue, against westbound drivers at Arlington Street.

Carter Street, against northbound drivers at Sixth Street.

Carter Street, against northwest and southeast bound drivers at the intersection of Cedar Street and Fifth Street.

Carter Street, against southeast bound drivers entering Sixth Street.

Carter Street, against southeast bound drivers at Johnson Street.

Carter Street, against westbound drivers at Walker Street.

Cedar Street, against westbound drivers at Lancaster Street.

Central Court, against northbound drivers at Central Street.

Central Place, against southbound drivers at Central Street.

Chalmers Street, against northbound drivers at Abbott Avenue.

Chapman Place, against northeast bound drivers at Central Street.

Cheryl Drive, against eastbound drivers at Central Street.

Chestnut Street, against eastbound drivers at Pleasant Street.

Church Street, against north and southbound drivers at Merriam Avenue.

Church Street, against southbound drivers at West Street.

Clark Street, against east and westbound drivers at Hall Street.

Clark Street, against eastbound drivers at Abbott Avenue.

Clubhouse Drive, against westbound drivers at Overlook Drive.

Colburn Street, against northbound drivers at Pleasant Street.

Colburn Street, against north and southbound drivers at Manchester Street.

Columbia Street, against eastbound and westbound drivers at the intersection of Depot Square and Merriam Avenue.

Constitution Drive, against northbound drivers at Granite Street.

Cottage Street, against northeast bound drivers at Pond Street.

Cottage Street, against southbound drivers at Pleasant Street.

Cotton Street, against northbound drivers at West Street.

Cotton Street, against southbound traffic at Cottage Street.

Country Lane, against southbound drivers at Granite Street.

Crawford Street, against southbound drivers at Hamilton Street.

Crestfield Lane, against eastbound drivers at West Street.

Crimson Court, against southbound drivers at Litchfield Street.

Crisci Street, against northeast bound drivers at Central Street.

CroShee Lane, against southbound drivers at Lowe Street.

Cross Street, against northbound drivers at Lancaster Street.

Cross Street, against westbound drivers at Central Street.

Crown Street, against eastbound drivers at Central Street.

Crown Street, against westbound drivers at Union Street.

Cumberland Road, against northwest bound drivers at Fairfield Road.

Currier and Ives Road, against northbound drivers at Jamestown Road.

Currier and Ives Road, against southbound drivers at Weathervane Drive.

Dale Avenue, against northbound drivers at Rumbrook Road.

Dale Avenue, against northbound drivers at Judy Drive.

Daley Street, against southbound drivers at Exchange Street.

Day Street, against southwest bound drivers at Main Street.

Debbie Drive (west side), against westbound drivers at Beth Avenue.

Depot Square, against southbound drivers at Water Street.

Dettling Avenue, against northbound drivers at North Main Street.

Dogwood Road, against southbound drivers at Grant Street.

Dogwood Road, against northbound drivers at Litchfield Street.

Drummer Lane, against northbound drivers at Indian Ridge Drive.

Dudley Street, against southwest bound drivers at Lancaster Street.

Eastern Avenue, against westbound drivers at Main Street.

Eden Glen, against northeast bound drivers at Lancaster Street.

Eden Glen, against southeast bound drivers at Miller Street.

Eighth Street, against northbound drivers at Water Street.

Eighth Street, against northeast bound drivers at Water Street.

Eighth Street, against southbound drivers at Mechanic Street.

Eleventh Street, against north and southbound drivers at Spruce Street.

Eleventh Street, against north and southbound drivers at Water Street.

Eleventh Street, against northeast bound drivers at Spruce Street.

Eleventh Street, against southwest bound drivers at Spruce Street.

Elm Street, against eastbound drivers at Pond Street.

Elm Hill Avenue, against northbound drivers at Lancaster Street.

Eugene Street, against westbound drivers at Pleasant Street.

Exchange Street, against eastbound drivers at West Street.

Fairview Street, against eastbound drivers at Main Street.

Fall Brook Avenue, against eastbound and westbound traffic on Lancaster Street.

Fifth Street, against north and southbound drivers at Water Street.

Fifth Street, against northbound drivers at Water Street.

Fifth Street, against northeast bound drivers at Spruce Street.

Fifth Street, against northeast and southwest bound drivers at Mechanic Street.

Fifth Street, against southbound drivers at Spruce Street.

First Street, against north and southbound drivers at Water Street.

Flagger Road, against eastbound drivers at Day Street.

Flintlock Road, against southbound drivers at Bicentennial Avenue.

Florence Street, against westbound drivers at Lancaster Street.

Florence Street, against westbound drivers at Viscoloid Avenue.

Forsythia Road, against westbound drivers at Main Street.

Fourth Street, against northbound drivers at Water Street.

Fourth Street, against north and southbound drivers at Spruce Street.

Fourth Street, against southwest bound drivers at Mechanic Street.

Fourth Street, against southwest bound drivers at Water Street.

Franklin Street, against eastbound drivers at Union Street.

Franklin Street, against westbound drivers at Pleasant Street.

Fruit Street, against northbound drivers at Lindell Avenue.

Fruit Street, against northwest bound drivers at Lindell Avenue.

Fruit Street, against southeast bound drivers at North Main Street.

Garfield Street, against southwest bound drivers at Lancaster Street.

George Street, against southeast bound drivers at Blossom Street.

George Terrace, upper and lower intersections against southbound drivers at West Street.

Glenwood Drive, against westbound drivers at Birchcroft Road.

Gordon Avenue, against east and westbound drivers at Ninth Street.

Gordon Avenue, against westbound drivers at Eighth Street.

Gordon Street, against southbound drivers at Ringer Road.

Graham Street, against east and westbound drivers at Central Street.

Graham Street, against northbound drivers at Lancaster Street.

Grand Street, against westbound drivers at Green Street.

Grand Street, against eastbound drivers at Priest Street.

Grand Street, against northeast bound drivers at Priest Street.

Grant Street, against northbound drivers at Union Street.

Green Street, against eastbound drivers at Grand Street.

Grove Avenue, against northbound drivers at Washington Square.

Grove Avenue, against southbound drivers at Merriam Avenue.

Hall Street, against northeast bound drivers at Abbott Avenue.

Hall Street, against east and westbound drivers at Merriam Avenue.

Hall Street, against southwest bound drivers at West Street.

Hamilton Street, against eastbound drivers at Main Street.

Hammond Street, against eastbound drivers at North Main Street.

Hanover Street, against northbound drivers at Chestnut Street.

Harlan Street, against northwest bound drivers at Crystal Avenue.

Harrison Street, against northeast bound drivers at Priest Street.

Harrison Street, against northwest and southeast bound drivers at Morton Street.

Haskell Avenue, against southeast bound drivers at Vista Avenue.

Hayes Street, against southwest bound drivers at Lancaster Street.

Helena Street, against southbound drivers at Granite Street.

Hickory Road, against westbound drivers at Pleasant Street.

High Street, against east and westbound drivers at Grove Avenue.

High Street, against eastbound and westbound drivers at Winter Street.

Highland Avenue, against northbound drivers at Lindell Avenue.

Highland Avenue (west side), against southbound drivers at Abbott Avenue.

Hill Street, against eastbound drivers at Pleasant Street.

Hillcrest Avenue (east side), against northbound drivers at Westland Avenue.

Hingham Court, against eastbound drivers at Pleasant Street.

Holman Street, against northbound drivers at North Main Street.

Hospital Road, against eastbound drivers at North Main Street.

Howard Street, against northbound drivers at Florence Street.

Howard Street, against southbound drivers at Lancaster Street.

Hudson Street, against southwest bound drivers at Lancaster Street.

Illiad Street, against southbound drivers at Merriam Avenue.

Illiad Street, against southwest bound drivers at Merriam Avenue.

Independence Drive, against northbound drivers at Bicentennial Avenue.

Indian Ridge Drive, against northbound drivers at Bicentennial Avenue across from Flintlock Road.

Indian Ridge Drive, against northbound drivers at Bicentennial Avenue across from 104 Bicentennial Avenue.

Industrial Road, against southbound drivers at Tolman Avenue.

Jamestown Road, against southeast bound drivers at 44 Weathervane Drive.

Jamestown Road, against eastbound drivers at Willard Street.

Jerome Place, against westbound drivers at Walker Street.

Johnson Street, northeast bound entering Mechanic Street.

Johnson Street, northwest bound entering Viscoloid Avenue.

Johnson Street, southwest bound entering Viscoloid Avenue.

Johnson Street, against westbound drivers at Lancaster Street.

Joslin Street, against eastbound drivers on Pierce Street.

Joslin Street, against northeast and southwest bound drivers at Day Street.

Joslin Street, against northbound drivers at Lincoln Street.

Judy Drive, against westbound drivers at Day Street.

Judy Drive, against eastbound drivers at Dale Avenue.

June Street, against eastbound drivers at Lakeview Street.

June Street, against eastbound drivers at Viscoloid Avenue.

June Street, against westbound drivers at Viscoloid Avenue.

June Street, against westbound drivers at Dudley Street.

Jytek Drive, against eastbound drivers at Willard Street.

Jytek Road, against eastbound drivers at Willard Street.

Karen Street, against southbound drivers at Jamestown Road.

Karen Street, against northbound drivers at Argentine Street.

Karen Street, at the intersection of Patricia Drive.

Keystone Drive, against eastbound drivers at Main Street.

King Avenue, against eastbound and westbound drivers at Norwood Avenue.

Kingman Drive, against southbound drivers at Exchange Street.

Kingman Drive, against northbound drivers at Granite Street.

Lantern Lane, against westbound drivers at 98 Jamestown Road.

Lantern Lane, against southbound drivers at 22 Jamestown Road.

Laurel Street, against northbound and southbound drivers at Spruce Street.

Laurel Street, against southbound drivers at Mechanic Street.

Laurie Drive, against northbound drivers at Pond Street.

Lawrence Street, against northbound drivers at Prospect Street.

Legate Hill Road, against northbound drivers at Central Street.

Leland Avenue, against northeast bound drivers at Princeton Street.

Leland Avenue extension, against eastbound drivers at Abbott Avenue.

Leland Avenue, against westbound drivers at Abbott Avenue.

Liberty Street, against southbound drivers at Ellen Street.

Lincoln Street, against southbound drivers at Main Street.

Lincoln Terrace, against eastbound drivers at Marguerite Avenue.

Lindell Avenue, against eastbound drivers at Maple Avenue.

Lindell Avenue, against eastbound drivers at Maple Avenue on both sides of street.

Lindell Avenue, against eastbound and westbound drivers at Merriam Avenue.

Lindell Avenue, against eastbound drivers at North Main Street.

Lindell Avenue, against westbound drivers at West Street.

Lisa Drive, against westbound drivers at Pleasant Street.

Litchfield Pines Drive, against northbound drivers at Litchfield Street.

Litchfield Street, against southbound drivers at Elm Hill Avenue.

Litchfield Street, against southwest bound drivers at Central Street.

Lowe Street, against eastbound drivers at Pleasant Street.

Lynnhaven Drive, against eastbound drivers at Dogwood Road.

Lynnhaven Road, against northbound drivers at Litchfield Street.

Malburn Street, against northeast bound drivers at Lancaster Street.

Malburn Terrace, against northbound drivers at Malburn Street.

Manchester Street, against east and westbound drivers at Colburn Street.

Manchester Street, against westbound drivers at Pleasant Street.

Manchester Street, against southeast bound drivers at Union Street.

Manning Avenue, against northbound drivers at Mechanic Street.

Marcello Avenue, against eastbound drivers at Main Street.

Marguerite Avenue, against northeast bound drivers at Lancaster Street.

Marguerite Avenue, against westbound drivers at Central Street.

McKay Street, against eastbound drivers at Washington Street.

McKay Street, against westbound drivers at Arlington Street.

Memorial Drive, against northbound drivers at Nelson Street.

Merriam Parkway, against westbound drivers at Merriam Avenue.

Merritt Street, against northeast bound drivers at West Street.

Middle Street, against northbound and southbound drivers at Cedar Street.

Middle Street, against southeast bound drivers at Johnson Street.

Middle Street, against northwest bound drivers at Whitney Street.

Middle Street, against northwest and southeast bound drivers at Sixth Street.

Mill Street, against eastbound drivers at Commercial Road.

Mill Street, against eastbound drivers at Whitney Street.

Mill Street, against westbound drivers at Haws Street.

Mill Street, against westbound drivers entering Haws Street.

Mockingbird Lane, against southbound drivers at Litchfield Street.

Monarch Street, against northbound and southbound drivers at Moore Street.

Monoosnock Avenue, against westbound drivers at Main Street.

Monroe Street, against eastbound drivers at Merritt Street.

Moore Street, against southbound drivers at North Main Street.

Mooreland Avenue, against eastbound drivers at Main Street.

Morton Street, against eastbound drivers at Priest Street.

Morton Street, against northbound and southbound drivers at Grand Street.

Mt. Pleasant Avenue, against southbound drivers at Pine Street.

Naples Street, against eastbound drivers at Union Street.

Nashua Street, against northbound and southbound drivers at Mechanic Street.

Newton Street, against eastbound drivers at Pond Street.

Nichols Street, against northbound drivers at North Main Street.

Nichols Street, against southwest bound drivers at Abbott Avenue.

Ninth Street, against northbound and southbound drivers at Water Street.

Ninth Street, against southbound drivers at Mechanic Street.

North Street, against east and westbound drivers at Main Street.

Norwood Avenue, against northbound drivers at Stuart Avenue.

Old Farm Road, against southbound drivers at Granite Street.

Old Mill Road, against northbound drivers at Willard Street.

Old Tavern Road at the intersection of West Street.

Old Willard Road, against eastbound drivers at Lancaster Street.

Old Willard Road, against westbound drivers at Willard Street.

Orchard Street, against northeast and southwest bound drivers at Merriam Avenue.

Overlook Drive, against eastbound drivers at Willard Street.

Park Street, against northbound drivers at West Street.

Park Street, against southbound drivers at Monument Square.

Pearl Street, against eastbound drivers at Cotton Street.

Penn Street, against northeast bound drivers at Princeton Street.

Phillips Road, against northbound drivers at Sylvan Terrace.

Pierce Street, against westbound drivers at Main Street.

Pleasant Street, against northbound drivers at Monument Square.

Pond Street, against north and northeast bound drivers at West Street.

Pond Street, against southbound drivers at Pleasant Street.

Powderhouse Lane, against eastbound drivers at Weathervane Drive.

Priest Street, against eastbound drivers at Main Street.

Priest Street, against westbound drivers at North Main Street.

Princeton Street (west side), against southbound drivers at Westland Avenue.

Prospect Terrace, against southbound drivers at Prospect Street.

Queens Road, against westbound drivers at Sharimar Drive.

Regina Drive, against eastbound drivers at Pleasant Street.

Richardson Street, against eastbound drivers at North Main Street.

Ridgewood Drive, against eastbound drivers at White Street.

Ringer Road, against eastbound drivers at Union Street.

River Street, against northwest bound drivers at Hamilton Street.

River Street, against southeast bound drivers at Main Street.

Rose Avenue, against eastbound drivers at Veronica Street.

Rose Avenue, against westbound drivers at Veronica Street.

Rumbrook Road, against northwest bound drivers at Day Street.

Rustic Drive, against east and westbound drivers at Smith Street.

Saddlebred Drive, against northbound drivers at Bridlecross Road.

School Street, against northbound drivers at Merriam Avenue.

School Street, against southbound drivers at West Street.

Second Street, against northbound and southbound drivers at Water Street.

Second Street, against northeast bound drivers at Water Street.

Seventh Street, against northbound and southbound drivers at Mechanic Street.

Seventh Street, against northbound and southbound drivers at Water Street.

Seventh Street, against northeast bound and southbound drivers at Spruce Street.

Shadowlawn Drive, against westbound drivers at Merriam Avenue.

Sharimar Drive, against westbound drivers at Grant Street.

Sixth Avenue, against northbound drivers at Mechanic Street.

Sixth Avenue, against southwest bound drivers entering Florence Street.

Sixth Street, against northbound drivers at Water Street.

Sixth Street, against northbound and southbound drivers at Mechanic Street.

Sixth Street, against northeast and southwest bound drivers at Spruce Street.

Sixth Street, against southwest bound drivers at Florence Street.

Sixth Street, against westbound drivers at Lancaster Street.

Smith Street, against southwest bound drivers at Merriam Parkway.

Spring Street, against east and westbound drivers at the intersection with Fourth Street.

Spruce Street, against eastbound and westbound drivers at Ninth Street.

Spruce Street, against eastbound and westbound drivers at Whitney Street.

Spruce Street, against northwest and southwest bound drivers at Eighth Street.

Spruce Street, against southwest bound drivers at Mechanic Street.

Stagecoach Road, against northwest bound drivers at Prospect Street.

Stagecoach Road, against westbound drivers at Prospect Street.

St. Asaph Street, against northeast bound drivers at Princeton Street.

St. Asaph Street, against southbound drivers at Abbott Avenue.

St. Cecelia Street, against northbound drivers at Mechanic Street.

St. Cecelia Street, against southbound drivers at Florence Street.

St. Jean Avenue, against northbound drivers at Lindell Avenue.

St. Jean Avenue, against southbound drivers at Nelson Street.

Starling Way, against southbound drivers at Litchfield Street.

Stearns Avenue, against eastbound drivers at Washington Street.

Stearns Avenue, against westbound drivers at Highland Avenue.

Stephens Road, against westbound drivers at Pleasant Street.

Summer Street, against westbound drivers at Main Street.

Summer Street, against southbound drivers at Water Street.

Sunrise Avenue, against southbound drivers at Prospect Street.

Sylvan Avenue, against eastbound drivers at Union Street.

Sylvan Avenue, against westbound drivers at Pleasant Street.

Sylvan Terrace, northbound entering Sylvan Avenue.

Tanagers Lane, against southbound drivers at Litchfield Street.

Tenth Street, against north and southbound drivers at Water Street.

Tenth Street, against northeast and southwest bound drivers at Spruce Street.

Thayer Street, against northeast bound drivers at Smith Street.

Thayer Street, against southwest bound drivers at Smith Street.

Theresa Avenue, against northeast bound drivers at Eva Drive.

Third Street, against east and southwest bound drivers at Water Street.

Third Street, against east and westbound drivers at Spring Street.

Third Street, against east and westbound drivers at Spruce Street.

Third Street, against northbound drivers at Mechanic Street.

Tisdale Street, against eastbound and westbound drivers at Union Street.

Tisdale Street, against eastbound drivers at Central Street.

Tolman Avenue, against eastbound drivers at Main Street.

Tremaine Street, against westbound drivers at Mill Street.

Tremaine Street, against northbound drivers entering Mill Street.

Twelfth Street, against southbound drivers at Mechanic Street.

Union Street, against northeast bound drivers at Central Street.

Union Street, against westbound drivers at Pleasant Street.

University Street, against westbound drivers at West Street.

Valley View Road, against southeast bound drivers at North Street.

Veronica Street, against southwest bound drivers at Eva Drive.

Veronica Street, against northeast bound drivers at Anthony Road.

Vezina Avenue, against eastbound and westbound drivers at Ninth Street.

Vezina Avenue, against northwest bound drivers at Eighth Street.

Vezina Avenue, against northwest bound drivers entering Sixth Street.

Vezina Avenue, against northwest and southwest bound drivers entering Seventh Street.

Vezina Avenue, against southeast bound drivers at Eighth Street.

Vine Street, against northeast and southwest bound drivers at Merriam Avenue.

Vine Street, against northeast bound drivers at Walnut Street.

Vine Street, against southwest bound drivers at West Street.

Viscoloid Avenue, against northbound drivers at Mechanic Street.

Viscoloid Avenue, against southbound drivers at Lancaster Street.

Wachusett Street, against eastbound drivers at Pleasant Street.

Wachusett Street, against westbound drivers at Elm Street.

Walcott Street, against eastbound drivers at Merriam Avenue.

Walker Street, against northeast bound drivers at Mechanic Street.

Walker Street, against southwest bound drivers at Middle Street.

Walnut Street, against eastbound and westbound drivers at Grove Avenue.

Walnut Street, against eastbound and westbound drivers at Washington Street.

Walnut Street, against eastbound drivers at Main Street.

Walnut Street, against eastbound drivers at Arlington Street.

Walnut Street, against westbound drivers at Arlington Street.

Warren Street, against eastbound drivers at Main Street.

Washington Street, against northbound drivers at Washington Square.

Washington Street, against northeast and southwest bound drivers at Merriam Avenue.

Washington Street, against northeast bound drivers at Walnut Street.

Washington Street, against southwest bound drivers at Walnut Street.

Washington Street, against southwest bound drivers at West Street.

Watson Avenue, against northwest bound drivers at Crystal Avenue.

Watson Avenue, against southeast bound drivers at Crystal Avenue.

Weathervane Drive, against northbound drivers at Grant Street.

Weathervane Drive, against westbound drivers at 122 Jamestown Road.

Wekepeke Way, against westbound drivers at Legate Hill Road.

Wekepeke Way, against eastbound drivers at Independence Drive.

West Street, against southbound drivers at Maple Avenue.

Westland Avenue, against northbound drivers at North Main Street.

Wheeler Street, against southbound drivers at Lancaster Street.

White Street, against northbound drivers at Harvard Street.

Whitman Street, against northbound drivers at Grand Street.

Whitney Street, against northeast and southwest bound drivers at Mechanic Street.

Whitney Street, against northeast and southwest bound drivers at Water Street.

Wildflower Road, against southbound drivers at Lincoln Street.

Willard Street, against northeast bound drivers at Lancaster Street.

William Street, against southeast bound drivers at Whitney Street.

Willow Street, against northwest bound drivers at Hall Street.

Willow Street, against southbound drivers at Blossom Street.

Willow Street, against southeast bound drivers at Hall Street.

Winter Street, against northbound drivers at Richardson Street.

Woodland Road, against westbound drivers at Pleasant Street.

(7-31-67, art. 7, § 12; 10-23-67; 11-27-67; 2-26-68; 5-13-68; 6-24-68; 11-12-68; 3-10-69; 5-27-69; 9-8-69; 1-26-70; 7-13-70; 7-27-70; 8-10-70; 9-28-70; 12-14-70; 5-10-71; 7-24-72; 8-28-72; 9-25-72; 10-24-72; 4-23-73; 6-11-73; 4-8-74; 4-22-74; 9-9-74; 2-10-75; 6-23-75; 9-22-75; 11-10-75; 1-12-76; 3-22-76; 7-12-76; 6-13-77; 5-8-78; 6-12-79; 5-12-80; 12-13-82; 3-14-83; 8-8-83; 4-23-84; 11-26-84; 11-12-85; 3-10-86; 7-14-86; 8-25-86; 9-22-86; 10-14-86; 1-26-87; 5-11-87; 8-10-87; 10-28-87; 6-13-88; 11-14-88; 11-28-88; 12-12-88; 2-13-89; 7-24-89; 9-25-89; 12-11-89; 4-23-90; 9-10-90; 12-10-90; 10-15-91; 2-10-92; 3-23-92; 12-14-92; 1-25-93; 6-28-93; 5-9-94; 8-22-94; 4-10-95; 2-26-96; 8-12-96; 9-22-97; 11-10-97; 1-26-98; 7-20-98; 7-27-98; 1-11-99; 1-25-99; 4-12-99; 7-26-99; 9-13-99; 12-13-99; 12-27-99; 2-14-00; 7-10-00; 10-23-00; 12-11-00; 10-22-01; 7-8-02; 12-9-02; 1-13-03; 10-15-03; 11-26-03; 10-25-04; 11-22-04; 9-12-05; 11-28-05; 5-22-06; 8-14-06; 8-28-06; 3-26-07; 5-29-07; 8-13-07.)

Sec. 13-78. Repealed by ordinance passed 6-12-79.

Sec. 13-79. Yield signs.

In accordance with the provisions of chapter 89, section 9 of the General Laws of Massachusetts, the following streets are designated as yield streets at the intersections and in the direction indicated:

Granite Street, facing southbound drivers turning right onto West Street.

Hamilton Street, facing southeast bound drivers turning right onto Main Street.

Mechanic Street, southwesterly across the street from the most southerly point of the Mechanic Street delta island.

Mill Street, facing westbound drivers turning northeasterly onto Haws Street.

North Street, facing eastbound drivers turning right onto Main Street.

North Street, facing westbound drivers turning right onto Main Street.

Old South Street, facing eastbound drivers turning right onto Merriam Avenue.

Pierce Street, for drivers turning left at Massachusetts Electric pole No. 8 facing southbound drivers.

Washington Street, facing westbound drivers making a left turn onto Washington Street.

Williams Street, facing westbound drivers turning left onto Mill Street.

(7-31-67, art. 7, § 12A; 4-23-73; 2-10-75; 6-12-79; 12-13-82; 5-13-91; 12-27-93; 1-25-99; 7-10-00.)

Sec. 13-80. Emerging from alley, driveway, etc.

The driver of a vehicle emerging from an alley, driveway or garage shall stop such vehicle immediately prior to driving onto a sidewalk or sidewalk area extending across such alley or driveway or the exit from such garage. Any person convicted of a violation of this rule shall be punished by a fine of fifty dollars for each offense.

(7-31-67, art. 7, § 21; 11-14-94.)

Sec. 13-81. Driving upon closed street prohibited.

No operator 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 signs, lights or signals have been erected to indicate that all or part of the road surface of the street or 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.

(7-31-67, art. 7, § 15.)

Sec. 13-82. Driving on sidewalks.

The driver of a vehicle shall not drive upon any sidewalk except at a permanent or temporary driveway. Any person convicted of a violation of this rule shall be punished by a fine of fifty dollars for each offense.

(7-31-67, art. 7, § 16; 11-14-94.)

Sec. 13-83. Driving through safety zones.

It shall be unlawful for the driver of a vehicle, except on signal from a police officer, to drive such vehicle over or through a safety zone.

(7-31-67, art. 7, § 17.)

Sec. 13-84. Identification of funeral processions.

A funeral composed entirely or partly of a procession of vehicles shall be identified as such by means of black pennants bearing a purple cross or other suitable insignia attached to both the first and the last vehicles.

(7-31-67, art. 7, § 18.)

Sec. 13-85. Operation of vehicles in funeral or other processions.

(a) It shall be the duty of each driver in a funeral or other procession to keep as near to the right edge of the roadway as is feasible and to follow the vehicle ahead as closely as is practicable and safe.

(b) At an intersection where a traffic control signal is operating, the driver of the first vehicle in a funeral or other procession shall be the only one required to stop for a red or red and yellow indication.

(c) At an intersection where a lawful stop sign exists, the driver of the first vehicle in a funeral or other procession shall be the only one required to stop before proceeding through the intersection.

(d) At an intersection where a lawful yield sign exists, the driver of the first vehicle in a funeral or other procession shall be the only one to yield the right-of-way before proceeding through the intersection as provided in section 13-78.

(7-31-67, art. 7, § 19.)

Sec. 13-86. Heavy commercial vehicles excluded.

The use and operation of heavy commercial vehicles having a carrying capacity of more than two and one-half tons is hereby excluded on the following named streets or parts thereof:

Harvard Street, between Stagecoach Road and Orchard Hill Park Drive Stagecoach Road, between Harvard Street and Prospect Street.

Exemptions. This section shall not apply to heavy commercial vehicles going to or coming from locations 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 or repair of said streets or public utilities therein, or to federal, state, municipal or public service corporation owned vehicles.

The provisions of this section shall apply only when sufficient standard signs have been erected.

Sec. 13-87. Intersections with islands, ramps, etc.

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.

(7-31-67, art. 7, § 14.)

Sec. 13-88. Left turn prohibition.

No driver of a vehicle shall make a left turn at the intersections listed below and in the direction specified:

Granite Street, eastbound to West Street westbound via cutoff.

Main Street, southbound to Mechanic Street eastbound.

Main Street, northbound to Merriam Avenue westbound.

(9-13-71; 4-23-73; 7-11-83; 10-25-04.)

Sec. 13-88.1. Left lane must turn left.

A driver of a vehicle in the left lane of a street must make a left turn at the intersections listed below and in the direction specified:

Commercial Drive, southbound onto the Leominster Connector.

Leominster Connector, westbound onto Mechanic Street.

Mechanic Street, eastbound onto Commercial Drive.

Merriam Avenue, southbound onto the Route 2 eastbound on-ramp.

Merriam Avenue, southbound to the southerly entrance to the Twin Cities Plaza.

Merriam Avenue, northbound onto Old South Street.

Southwesterly at Monument Square to southbound on Central Street.

(7-11-83; 5-13-91; 12-27-93.)

Sec. 13-88.2. Right lane must turn right.

A driver of a vehicle in the right lane of a street must make a right turn at the intersections listed below and in the direction specified:

Crawford Street, southbound onto Hamilton Street.

Hamilton Street, northbound onto North Main Street.

Hamilton Street, eastbound to River Street.

Hamilton Street, westbound to Crawford Street.

Leominster Connector, westbound onto Commercial Drive.

(7-11-83; 5-13-91; 12-14-98.)

Sec. 13-88.3. Right turn restriction.

No driver of a vehicle traveling northbound on Exchange Street shall make a right hand turn on to Boutelle Street during the hours of 2:00 P.M. to 3:00 P.M., Monday through Friday.

Sec. 13-88.4. Left turn restriction.

No driver of a vehicle traveling northbound on Exchange Street shall make a left hand turn on to View Street during the hours of 2:00 P.M. to 3:00 P.M., Monday through Friday.

No driver of a vehicle traveling westbound on Hamilton Street shall make a left hand turn on to River Street.

(9-9-96; 12-14-98.)

Sec. 13-89. U-turns.

No driver shall back or turn a vehicle so as to proceed in the direction opposite to that in which such vehicle is heading or traveling on the following streets:

Lakeside Avenue, from Main Street to the Lunenburg line.

Main Street, from the Lunenburg line south to Wilder Road.

Main Street, from West Street to Summer Street.

(7-31-67, art. 7, § 10.)

ARTICLE V.
ABANDONED AND JUNKED MOTOR VEHICLES.

Sec. 13-90. Definitions.

For the purposes of this article, the following words and phrases shall have the meanings respectively ascribed to them by this section:

Property. Any real property within the city which is not a street or highway.

Street or highway. The entire width between the boundary lines on every way publicly maintained when any part thereof is open to the use of the public for purposes of vehicular travel.

Vehicle. A machine propelled by power other than human power which is designed to travel along the ground by use of wheels, treads, runners or slides and to transport persons or property or pull machinery. The word "vehicle" shall include without limitation any automobile, truck, trailer, motorcycle, tractor, buggy or wagon.

Sec. 13-91. Abandonment prohibited.

(a) Except as to vehicles for which other provisions are made under the laws of the commonwealth, no person shall abandon any vehicle or leave any vehicle at any place within the city for such time and under such circumstances as to cause such vehicle reasonably to appear to have been abandoned, nor shall any person leave any partially dismantled, nonoperating, wrecked or junked vehicle on any street or highway within the city.

(b) No person in charge or control of any property within the city, whether as owner, tenant, occupant, lessee or otherwise, shall allow any partially dismantled, nonoperating, wrecked, junked or discarded vehicle to remain on any property within the city for more than a period of thirty days after he has received a notice from the office of the building inspector of the existence of such partially dismantled, nonoperating, wrecked, junked or discarded vehicle, such notice to be given in hand or by registered mail, return receipt requested; except to a vehicle in an enclosed building; a vehicle on the premises of a business enterprise operated in a lawful place and manner, when necessary to the operation of such business enterprise; or a vehicle in an appropriate storage place or depository maintained in a lawful place and manner by the city. This section shall not apply to Class three licenses under General Laws, chapter 140, section 58.

(9-27-65; 6-28-71.)

Sec. 13-91A. Unregistered motor vehicles.

(a) Not more than one unregistered motor vehicle, assembled or disassembled, shall be kept, stored or allowed to remain on a parcel of land except by a person duly licensed under Massachusetts General Laws, chapter 140, section 59, or except as provided in subsection (b) of this section. For purposes of this section all contiguous lots of land in common ownership shall be considered one parcel of land.

(b) One additional unregistered motor vehicle, assembled or disassembled, may be kept, stored, or allowed to remain on a parcel, provided that not more than one such additional unregistered motor vehicle may be kept, stored, or allowed to remain on a parcel for more than a total of thirty days in any one calendar year.

(c) Violation of this chapter shall be punished by a fine of fifty dollars for the first offense, and one hundred dollars for each subsequent offense. Each day that a violation exists or continues on a parcel shall be deemed a separate offense. This chapter may be enforced by any police officer of the city of Leominster.

Sec. 13-92. Impoundment.

The chief of police or any member of his department designated by him, upon notice from the building inspector or superintendent of streets, is hereby authorized to remove or have removed any vehicle left at any place within the city which reasonably appears to be in violation of this article, lost, stolen or unclaimed. Such vehicle shall be impounded until lawfully claimed or disposed of in accordance with General Laws, chapter 135 relative to unclaimed and abandoned property.

ARTICLE VI.
PEDESTRIAN CONTROL REGULATIONS.

Sec. 13-93. Definitions.

For the purposes of this article, the following words and phrases shall have the meanings respectively ascribed to them herein, unless the text clearly indicates otherwise:

Intersection. The area embraced within the extensions of the lateral curb lines, or if none, then the lateral boundary lines, of intersecting ways as defined in section 1 of chapter 90 of the General Laws of the state, including divided ways.

The rules and regulations herein contained governing and restricting the movement of vehicles at and near intersecting ways shall apply at any place along any way at which drivers are to be controlled by traffic-control signals, whether or not such place is an intersection as herein defined.

Vehicle. Every device in, upon or by which any person or property is or may be transported or drawn upon a highway, including bicycles when the provisions of these rules are applicable to them, except other devices moved by human power or used exclusively upon stationary rails or tracks and devices which derive their power for operation from stationary overhead wires.

(9-11-72, § 12.)

Sec. 13-94. Obedience to officers, signals and markings required; crosswalk markings described.

Pedestrians shall obey the directions of police officers directing traffic, and whenever there is an officer directing traffic, a traffic-control signal or a marked cross walk within three hundred feet of a pedestrian, no such pedestrian shall cross a way or roadway except within the limits of a marked crosswalk and as hereinafter provided in these regulations. For the purpose of these regulations, a marked crosswalk shall only be construed to be that area of a roadway reserved for pedestrian crossing located between two solid white reflectorized twelve-inch pavement markings in rural areas or markings not less than six inches wide in urban areas, such markings or lines being no less than six feet apart.

(9-11-72, § 1.)

Sec. 13-95. Traffic-control signals– Pedestrian actuation; right-of-way of certain vehicles.

(a) At a traffic-control signal location where pedestrian indications are provided but which are shown only upon actuation by means of a pedestrian push button, no pedestrian shall cross a roadway unless or until the pedestrian-control signal push button has been actuated, and then cross only on the proper pedestrian signal indication. At traffic-control signal locations where no pedestrian indication is provided, pedestrians shall cross only on the green indication. If necessary, the green indication shall be actuated by the pedestrian by means of a push button.

(b) At a traffic-control signal location, pedestrians shall yield the right-of-way to vehicles of a funeral or other procession or authorized emergency vehicle while in performance of emergency duties regardless of the signal indication given, and they shall not attempt to cross the roadway until such vehicles or procession has passed at which time pedestrians shall then cross the roadway only as provided in these regulations.

(9-11-72, § 2.)

Sec. 13-96. Same– Color indications and legends; compliance required.

Traffic-control signal color indications and legends shall have the commands ascribed to them in this section and no other meanings, and every pedestrian shall comply therewith, except when otherwise directed by an officer.

(a) Red and yellow or the word "walk." Whenever the red and yellow lenses are illuminated together or the single word "walk" is illuminated, pedestrians facing such indication may proceed across the roadway and in the direction of such signal only.

(b) Red alone or "don't walk." Whenever the words "don't walk" or any indication other than red and yellow shown together are illuminated in a traffic control signal where pedestrian indications are provided, pedestrians approaching or facing such indication shall wait on the sidewalk, edge of roadway or in the pedestrian refuge area of a traffic island and shall not enter upon or cross a roadway until the proper indication is illuminated in the traffic control signal; but any pedestrian who has partially completed his crossing on the "walk" indication shall proceed or return to the nearest sidewalk or safety island on the yellow indication, the red indication or when the words "don't walk" are illuminated by rapid intermittent flashes.

(c) Green alone. At traffic-control signal locations where no pedestrian indication is given or provided, pedestrians facing the signal may proceed across the roadway within any marked crosswalk in the direction of the green indication.

(d) Yellow alone, red alone or flashing "don't walk." Pedestrians approaching or facing a yellow, red or flashing "don't walk" illuminated indication shall not start to cross a roadway.

(e) Flashing red, yellow or green. At any traffic control signal location where a flashing red, flashing yellow or flashing green indication is being given facing a crosswalk, pedestrians shall actuate, where provided, the pedestrian signal indication and cross the roadway only on the red-yellow or "walk" indication when such indication is in operation. If no pedestrian signal is provided, pedestrians shall cross within crosswalks with due care.

(9-11-72, § 3.)

Sec. 13-97. Pedestrian crossings and use of roadways– Generally.

(a) No pedestrian shall suddenly leave a sidewalk or safety island and walk or run into the path of a vehicle which is so close that it is impossible for the driver to yield the right-of-way.

(b) Pedestrians shall attempt, at all times, to use the right half of crosswalks when crossing a roadway.

(c) Where sidewalks are provided, it shall be unlawful for any pedestrian to walk along and upon an adjacent roadway whenever the sidewalk is open to pedestrian use.

(d) Where sidewalks are not provided, any pedestrian walking along and upon a highway shall, when practicable, walk only on the left side of the roadway on its unfinished shoulder facing traffic which may approach from the opposite direction.

(e) Persons alighting from the roadway side of any vehicle parked at the curb or edge of roadway shall proceed immediately to the sidewalk or edges of roadway adjacent to vehicle, and shall cross the roadway only as authorized by these regulations.

(f) It shall be unlawful for any person to actuate a pedestrian control signal or to enter a marked crosswalk unless a crossing of the roadway is intended.

(9-11-72, § 4.)

Sec. 13-98. Same– At nonsignalized locations.

Every pedestrian crossing a roadway at any point other than within a marked crosswalk shall yield the right-of-way to all vehicles upon the roadway. At a point where a pedestrian tunnel or overpass has been provided, pedestrians shall cross the roadway only by the proper use of the tunnel or overpass.

(9-11-72, § 5.)

Sec. 13-99. Vehicle operators to exercise due care.

The provisions of these regulations shall in no way abrogate the provisions of chapter 90, sections 14 and 14A of the General Laws of the state (ter. ed.) which provide: "Precautions for Safety of Other Travelers" and for the "Protection of Blind Persons Crossing Ways." Furthermore, notwithstanding the provisions of these regulations, every operator of a vehicle shall exercise due care to avoid colliding with any pedestrian upon the roadway and shall give warning by sounding the horn when necessary and shall exercise proper precautions which may become necessary for safe operation.

(9-11-72, § 6.)

Sec. 13-100. Permit required for solicitation of rides or business.

No person shall stand in a roadway for the purpose of soliciting a ride, employment or business from the operator or occupant of any vehicle without the written permission of the board or officers having control of such roadway or highway.

(9-11-72, § 7.)

Sec. 13-101. Enforcement of article.

This article shall be enforced by all officers of the city.

(9-11-72, § 8.)

Sec. 13-102. Article not applicable to certain persons.

The provisions of this article shall not apply to pedestrians actually engaged in work upon a roadway closed to travel or under construction or repair, to municipal, state, federal or public service corporation employees while in the performance of their duties, to police officers engaged in the performance of their public duties or to pedestrians acting in an emergency when such emergency necessitates departure from any part of these rules and regulations.

(9-11-72, § 9.)

Sec. 13-103. Penalties for violation of article.

(a) It shall be the duty of the mayor, or his designee relative to parking, the chief of police and the officers of the police department to enforce the provisions of this chapter. Any person convicted of a violation of any provision of this article relative to the operation of vehicles shall be punished by a fine consistent with the penalty provisions of this chapter.

(b) Any person convicted of a violation of section 67, shall be punished by a fine of not less than fifty dollars. Where said conviction is for operating a vehicle at a rate of speed exceeding ten miles per hour over the speed limit for the way upon which the person was operating, an additional fine of ten dollars for each mile per hour in excess of the ten miles per hour shall be assessed.

(c) The chief of police and the officers of the police department may, as an alternative to initiating criminal proceedings, seek the noncriminal disposition of any violation, by following the procedures set forth in section 21D of chapter 40 of the General Laws.

(9-11-72, § 10; 11-14-94.)