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SECTION 3. Police May Prohibit Parking Temporarily. The Chairman of the Board of Selectmen is hereby authorized to prohibit, temporarily, parking on any street or highway or part thereof in an impending or existing emer- gency, or for a lawful assemblage, demonstration or procession provided there is a reasonable justification for such prohibition. Vehicles parked in places where parking is prohibited temporarily may be moved by or under the direc- tion of an officer.
SECTION 4. Exemptions. The provisions of these Rules and Orders 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, nor to drivers of emergency and in per- formance of public duties when the nature of the work of any of these neces- sitates a departure from any part of these Rules and Orders. These exemp- tions shall not, however, protect the driver of any vehicle from the conse- quences of a reckless disregard of the safety of others.
ARTICLE III Traffic Signs, Signals, Markings and Zones
SECTION 1. Traffic Signs and Signals.
(a) The Superintendent of Streets is hereby authorized and as to those signs and signals required hereunder, it shall be its duty to place and main- tain or cause to be placed and maintained all official traffic signs, signals, markings and safety zones. All signs, signals, markings and safety zones
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shall conform to the standards as prescribed by the Department of Public Works of the Commonwealth of Mass.
(b) Sections 2 and 3 of Article II and Sections 2 and 3 of Article V relat- ing to parking 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 approach- ing drivers.
SECTION 2. Display of Unauthorized Signs, Signals and Markings Pro- hibited. It shall be unlawful for any person to place or maintain or to dis- play 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 move- ment 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.
SECTION 3. Interference with Signs, Signals and Markings 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 exceed- ing twenty (20) dollars for each and every offense.
SECTION 4. Obedience to Traffic Signs and Signals. No driver of any vehicle or of any street car shall disobey the instructions of any official traffic con- trol signal sign, marking, marker or legend, unless otherwise directed by a police officer.
ARTICLE IV Zones of Quiet
SECTION 1. Zones of Quiet.
(a) All of the territory within two hundred feet of the premises of each hospital in this town is hereby created and established as a Zone of Quiet. The Chief of Police is hereby authorized to erect and maintain in a con- spicuous manner within this area such signs and markings as are necessary to designate it as a zone of quiet.
(b) The Board of Selectmen may temporarily establish a zone of quiet upon any street where a person is seriously ill or requested to do so by the written statement of at least one registered physician certifying to its neces- sity. Said temporary zone of quiet shall embrace all territory within a radius of two hundred (200) feet of the building occupied by the person named in the request of said physician. Said temporary zones of quiet shall be desig- nated by the police by placing at a conspicuous place in the street a sign or marker bearing the words "Zone of Quiet."
(c) No person operating a motor vehicle within any designated and signed zone of quiet shall sound the horn or other warning device of said vehicle except in an emergency.
ARTICLE V Parking
SECTION 1. General Prohibitions. No person shall park a vehicle in any of the following places and vehicles found parked in violation of the provi- sions of this section may be moved by or under the direction of an officer and at the expense of the owner to a place where parking is permitted.
(a) Within an intersection.
(b) Upon any sidewalk.
(c) Upon any crosswalk.
(d) Upon the roadway in a rural or sparsely settled district.
(e) Upon a roadway where parking is permitted unless both wheels on the right side of the vehicle are within twelve (12) inches of the curb or edge of the roadway, except upon those streets which are designated as one-way streets. On such one-way streets, vehicles shall be parked in the direction in which said vehicle is moving and with both wheels within twelve (12) inches of the curb. This shall not apply to streets or parts of streets where angle park- ing is required by these regulations.
(f) Upon any roadway where the parking of a vehicle will not leave a clear and unobstructed lane at least ten (10) feet wide for passing traffic.
(g) Upon any street or highway within ten (10) feet of a fire hydrant.
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(h) Upon or in front of any private road or driveway.
(i) Upon any street or highway within twenty (20) feet of an inter- secting way, except alleys.
SECTION 2. Prohibited on Certain Streets. Upon the following streets or highways or parts thereof, parking is hereby prohibited. Main St., west side from Faculty St. southerly for a distance of four hundred (400) feet.
SECTION 3. Time Limited in Designated Places. Parking prohibited on south side of Faculty Street to Springfield Street and approximately 650 feet on the north side beginning 50 feet in from Main Street.
SECTION 4. Parking Vehicles for Sale Prohibited. It shall be unlawful for any person to park upon a street or highway any vehicle displayed for sale.
SECTION 5. No All Night Parking. It shall be unlawful for the driver of any vehicle, other than one acting in an emergency to park said vehicle on any street for a period of time longer than one (1) hour between the hours of 1:00 A. M. and 7:00 A. M. of any day.
ARTICLE VI Operation of Vehicles
SECTION 1. Drive Within Marked Lanes. When any roadway has been divided into lanes, a driver of a vehicle shall drive so as to be entirely within a single lane and shall not move from the lane in which he is driving until he has first ascertained if such movement can be made with safety.
SECTION 2. Use Right Lane. Upon all roadways the driver of a vehicle shall drive in the lane nearest the right side of the roadway when said lane is available for travel, except when overtaking another vehicle or when pre- paring for a left turn.
SECTION 3. Overtake Only When There is a Space Ahead. The driver of a vehicle shall not overtake and pass a vehicle proceeding in the same direc- tion unless there is sufficient clear space ahead on the right side of the road- way to permit the overtaking to be completed without impeding the safe operation of any vehicle ahead.
SECTION 4. Driver to Give Way to Overtaking Vehicle. The driver of a vehicle when about to be overtaken and passed by another vehicle approach- ing 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 over- taking vehicle, and shall not increase the speed of his vehicle until completely passed by the overtakng vehicle.
SECTION 5. Obstructing Traffic.
(a) 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.
(b) No driver shall enter an intersection or a marked crosswalk unless there is sufficient space on the other side of the intersection or cross walk and on the right half of the roadway to accommodate the vehicle he is oper- ating without obstructing the passage of other vehicles or pedestrians not- withstanding any traffic control signal indication to proceed.
SECTION 6. Following Too Closely. The driver of a vehicle shall not follow another vehicle more closely than is reasonable and prudent having due re- gard to the speed of such vehicle and the traffic upon the condition of the street or highway.
SECTION 7. Slow Vehicles to Stay Two Hundred (200) Feet Apart. Upon roadway less than twenty-seven (27) feet wide and upon which vehicular traffic is permitted to operate in both directions, the driver of any slow moving vehicle, when traveling outside of a business or residential district shall not follow another slow moving vehicle within two hundred (200) feet, but this shall not be construed to prevent such slow moving vehicle from overtaking and passing another slow moving vehicle. This section shall not apply to funerals or other lawful processions.
SECTION 8. Care in Starting, Stopping, Turning or Backing. The driver of any vehicle before stopping, starting, turning from a direct line or back-
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ing, shall first see that such movement can be made in safety. If the opera- tion of another vehicle shall 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.
SECTION 9. Stopping and Turning Signals.
(a) Any signal herein required shall be given sufficient time in advance of the movement indicated to give ample warning to any person who may be affected by said movement, and shall be given either by means of the hand and arm in the manner specified, or by a suitable mechanical or electrical device except that when a vehicle is so constructed or loaded as to prevent the hand and arm signal from being made or from being visible both to the front and rear, the signal shall be given by a suitable device.
(b) Hand and arm signals, as required herein, shall be made as follows:
1. An intention to stop shall be indicated by extending the arm horizon- tally to the left of and beyond the side of the vehicle.
2. An intention to turn to the left shall be indicated by extending the arm horizontally to the left of and beyond the side of the vehicle, and by pointing to the left with the index finger.
3. An intention to turn to the right shall be indicated by extending the arm horizontally to the left of and beyond the side of the vehicle and by moving the hand in a circle.
SECTION 10. Obedience to Isolated Stop Signs. Every driver of a vehicle, railway car or other conveyance approaching an intersection of ways where there exists facing him an official sign bearing the word "stop" and author- ized by this section, said sign having apart from this regulation the written approval of the Department of Public Works, Commonwealth of Massachu- setts, and such approval being in effect, shall, before proceeding through the intersection, bring such vehicle, railway car or other conveyance to a complete stop at such point as may be clearly marked by a sign or line, or if a point is not so marked, then at a place between the said "stop" sign and the nearer line of the street intersection. In the case of a line of two or more vehicles approaching such "stop" sign, the drivers of the second and third vehicles in line in any group shall not be required to stop more than once before proceeding through the intersection. This section shall not apply when the traffic is otherwise directed by an officer or by a lawful traffic regu- lating sign, signal or device.
In accordance with the foregoing, the erection and maintenance of an offi- cial "stop" sign or signs are authorized so as to face:
North and South bound drivers on Stony Hill Road at Springfield Street. North and South bound drivers on Stony Hill Road at Tinkham Road.
West bound drivers on Glendale Road at North Main Street.
West bound drivers on Monson Road at South Main Street.
West bound drivers on Church Road at North Main Street.
East bound drivers on Springfield Street at South Main Street. South bound drivers on River Road at Old Boston Road. East bound drivers on Faculty Street at Main Street.
West bound drivers on Old Boston Road at Bridge Street and Stony Hill Road.
North and South bound drivers on Weston Street at Acton Street.
Southwest bound drivers on Faculty Street at Springfield Street.
South bound drivers on Bridge Street at Old Boston Road and Stony Hill Road.
SECTION 11. Keep to the Right of Roadway Division. Upon such roadways as are divided by a parkway, grass plot, reservation, viaduct, subway, or by any structure or area, drivers shall keep to the right of such a division except when otherwise directed by an officer, signs, signals or markings.
SECTION 12. Operation at Under or Overpasses and at Intersections with Islands. 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 inter- section of ways in which there are traffic islands, drivers of vehicles shall proceed only as indicated by official signs, signals or markings.
SECTION 13. Driving on Road Surfaces under Construction or Repair. No operator shall enter upon the road surface of any street or highway or sec-
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tion thereof, when by reasons of construction, surface treatment, mainte- nance 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 town, either audibly or by signals.
SECTION 14. No Driving on Sidewalks. The driver of a vehicle shall not drive upon any sidewalk except at a permanent or temporary driveway.
ARTICLE VII Accident Reports, Responsibility, Penalties and Repeals
SECTION 1. Drivers Must Report Accidents. The driver of any vehicle involved in an accident resulting in the injury or death of any person or property damage to an apparent total extent of twenty-five (25) dollars or more shall, within twenty-four (24) hours, make a full and complete report in writing of such accident to the police headquarters in this town. A driver who has been incapacitated as a result of such accident, and to such extent as to make reporting impossible or unfavorable to his recovery, shall not be required to report such accident until he has recovered sufficiently to be able to do so. The report shall be made on a form furnished by the police depart- ment, copies of which shall be available at the police station. Compliance with this section, however, shall not relieve such driver from the additional responsibility of reporting to the Registrar of Motor Vehicles any accident in which a person is killed or injured.
SECTION 2. Owner Prima Facie Responsible for Violations. If any vehicle is found upon any street or highway in violation of any provisions of these Rules and Orders 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.
SECTION 3. Penalties. Any person violating any provision of any rule, regulation or order regulating the parking of motor vehicles made by any- body authorized to make same, shall be dealt with as provided in Chapter 176 of the Legislative Acts of 1935, amending Section 20A of Chapter 90 of the General Laws, and any person violating any of the rules and regulations applicable to State Highways made by the Department of Public Works, Commonwealth of Mass. under authority of Chapter 85, Section 2 of the General Laws, shall be subject to the penalty provided in said rules and regulations.
Any person convicted of a violation of any rule, regulation or order made hereunder except as otherwise provided, shall be punished by a fine not ex- ceeding twenty (20) dollars for each offense.
SECTION 4. Repeal. These rules are adopted with the intent that each of them shall have force and effect separately and independently of every other except insofar as by express reference or necessary implication any rule or any part of a rule is made dependent upon another rule or part thereof.
The provisions of these rules so far as they are the same in effect as those of any existing valid rules, orders or regulations heretofore made by the Selectmen of the Town of Wilbraham relative to or in connection with official signs, lights, markings, signal systems or devices shall be construed as a continuation thereof, but all other existing rules, orders and regulations so made for the regulation of vehicles are hereby expressly repealed. This repeal however, shall not affect any punishment or penalty imposed or any com- plaint or prosecution pending at the time of the passage hereof for an offense committed under any of the valid rules, orders or regulations hereby re- pealed. (November 29, 1938.)
Camps and Cabins
The following Rules and Orders regulating Recreational Camps, Overnight Camps, or Cabins and Trailer Camps, as suggested by the Department of Public Health, are hereby enacted by the Board of Selectmen of the Town of Wilbraham.
SECTION 1. Registration and License. The management of any organized camp in the Town of Wilbraham covered by Chapter 416 of the Acts of 1939
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shall annually apply for a license in writing to the Board of Health of Wil- braham. This application shall state the location and type of camp, the approxi- mate maximum number of persons by whom it is to be used, the probable duration of occupancy, the proposed sources of water and milk supply for the camp and the proposed method of sewage and garbage disposal. If the camp is used the year around, such application shall be made annually not later than January 1, or if used during only a portion of the year, at least thirty (30) days in advance of the date when the requested license is desired to take effect.
SECTION 2. Camp Site. The camp site shall be such that it is practicable to provide and maintain proper sanitary facilities. The location shall be on porous, well draining soil, and shall afford facilities for obtaining a good water supply and a safe method of sewage disposal.
It shall be of adequate size to prevent over-crowding. Each camping unit shall contain not less than four hundred (400) square feet of usable space, and no unit shall be permitted to accommodate more than one overnight cabin or tent.
No camp shall be established on the watershed of a public water supply until proper sanitary facilities have been provided and all sanitary facilities shall be in accordance with the rules and regulations for the sanitary pro- tection of public water supplies made by the State Department of Public Health under the provisions of Section 160, Chapter 111, General Laws.
SECTION 3. Plan of Camp. Every camp shall have available for inspection a plan or sketch indicating the location of all local sources of water supply and other sanitary facilities including all toilets, cesspools and receptacles for garbage and refuse, and signs shall be posted indicating the location of such facilities.
SECTION 4. Water Supply. Every camp shall have a water supply of safe, sanitary quality and sufficient in quantity for the maximum population using the camp at any time. Such water supply shall be easily obtainable from its source or from faucets or bubblers on a pipe distribution system. Dipping of receptacles into the source of supply shall not be permitted. Common drinking vessels shall not be provided or permitted. Drinking fountains shall be of sanitary design and construction. Any source of water supply, the water of which is found to be polluted or questionable quality shall be posted as unsafe.
SECTION 5. Sewage and Waste Water Disposal. No camp shall be operated without facilities adequate for the proper disposal of the sewage and waste water. There shall be separate accommodations for each sex so located as to be easily accessible to all parts of the camp.
Camps, so located and equipped that water under suitable pressure and public sewers are available, shall be equipped with flush toilets and connected with the public sewage system. Camps not so located shall be provided with equipment adequate for the disposal of the sewage and waste water in a sanitary manner.
There shall be at least one toilet seat for each fifteen (15) campers when the camp is operating to full capacity, and one urinal of vitreous material shall also be provided for each twenty-five (25) men.
No privy shall be located within fifty (50) feet of any kitchen, dining room, mess hall or other place where food is prepared or served.
Toilet structures shall be fly-tight, well lighted and ventilated.
In cleaning septic tanks, cesspools, chemical toilets, privy vaults or pits, the contents shall be removed and disposed of in a manner satisfactory to the Board of Health of Wilbraham so that they will not become a menace to the public health, create a nuisance, or contaminate any water supply or bathing place. Vault contents shall be treated frequently by sprinkling with chloride of lime or a compound equally effective for preventing nuisances.
SECTION 6. Disposal of Garbage and Rubbish. Every camp shall be provided with metal tight covered receptacles for garbage, placed at a suitable point or points at the camp and sufficient in number to contain all such garbage. All garbage shall be deposited in them. The contents of these covered recep- tacles shall be removed daily when the camp is in use and, under proper supervision, buried or disposed of in a sanitary manner so as not to create
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a nuisance. Garbage shall not be thrown or deposited in any ravine, ditch or gutter, or any street or highway, into any waters, or be permitted to remain exposed upon the surface of the ground. Garbage receptacles shall be thoroughly washed at frequent intervals. Every camp shall be provided with suitable receptacles with tight covers for rubbish and all waste papers, bot- tles and tin cans shall be placed in them. The contents shall be removed at least twice a week, when the' camp is in use and burned, or otherwise dis- posed of in a sanitary manner under proper supervision.
SECTION 7. Food. The quality and handling of all foods sold or offered for sale on the camp premises shall conform to the regulations of the Board of Health of Wilbraham and to the Tercentenary Edition of the General Laws as amended or as may hereafter be amended.
SECTION 8. Bathing Places. No bathing place shall be established or used which is subject to dangerous contamination. Swimming and wading pools and bathing places shall be operated and maintained in accordance with the recommendations of the Joint Committee on Bathing Places of the Confer- ence of State Sanitary Engineers and the American Public Health Association.
SECTION 9. Shower Baths. Camps provided with shower baths shall have separate compartments for each sex. A minimum of one shower head for each sex shall be provided for camps up to twenty (20) persons, and one additional head for each additional twenty (20) persons or fraction thereof. Concrete floors and suitable waste water disposal shall also be installed.
SECTION 10. Living Quarters. Living quarters, including dormitories, din- ing rooms, kitchens, bath and toilet rooms, laundries, and other shelters shall be properly screened, well ventilated and lighted, free from vermin and in- sects, and the floors raised not less than twelve (12) inches from the ground. Screen door shall be of the self-closing type. The floors of all kitchens, din- ing rooms, bath, toilet and wash rooms and laundries shall be water tight. No windows shall open directly into any enclosed garage space.
All plumbing fixtures shall be properly trapped and vented and made sanitary in every particular and all piping conditions shall be in accordance with the Plumbing Rules, formulated by the State Examiners of Plumbers as required by Section 8 of Chapter 142 of the General Laws.
SECTION 11. Caretaker and Maintenance of Sanitary Conditions. The camp shall be supervised by a capable manager or caretaker who shall reside at the camp or visit it every day when it is occupied. It shall be the duty of the manager or caretaker to keep the camp and its equipment in a clean and sanitary condition. The owner or management of each camp shall assume responsibility for maintaining the camp in proper sanitary condition in accordance with these rules and regulations, copies of which shall be posted at a conspicuous place in the camp. The camp when closed for the season shall be left clean and in a sanitary condition.
SECTION 12. Communicable Disease. Whenever a case of disease danger- ous to the public is discovered or any unusual amount of illness occurs in any camp, the person in charge shall at once notify the Board of Health of Wilbraham. The patient shall be isolated and not removed from the camp except by order of the board of health.
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