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Sec. 46-1. - Definitions.#
The following words, terms and phrases, when used in this chapter, shall have the meanings ascribed to them in this section, except where the context clearly indicates a different meaning:
Commercial vehicle means any vehicle registered for commercial purposes and designed and used primarily for the transportation of goods, wares and merchandise.
Crosswalk means that part of a roadway at an intersection included within the connections of the lateral lines of the sidewalks on opposite sides of the highway measured from the curb, or in the absence of curbs, from the edges of the traversable roadway or any portion of a roadway at an intersection or elsewhere distinctly indicated for pedestrian crossing by lines or other marking on the surface.
Official curb marking means that portion of the curbing, the painting of which has been authorized by the traffic control officer of the town.
Official street marking means 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 traffic control officer of the town.
Parking or park means the stopping or standing of a vehicle on a roadway, whether occupied or not, other than temporarily for the purpose of and while actually engaged in loading or unloading, or in obedience to a police officer, the traffic control officer or traffic signs or signals, or while making emergency repairs or, if disabled, while arrangements are being made to move such a vehicle.
Whenever in this chapter words or phrases, other than the foregoing, which are defined in the state motor vehicle code G.L. 1956, § 31-1 et seq. are used, they shall have the meanings respectively ascribed to them in the state motor vehicle code.
(Ord. of 6-2-97, § 1-1)
Cross reference— Definitions generally, § 1-2.
State Law reference— Definitions, G.L. 1956, § 31-1-2 et seq.
Sec. 46-2. - Defacing or damaging parking or traffic control devices.#
A person shall not willfully deface, injure, move, remove, obstruct or interfere with any official sign, signal, marking or device.
(Ord. of 6-2-97, § 1-2)
State Law reference— Injury to signs and traffic-control devices, G.L. 1956, § 31-13-11.
Sec. 46-3. - Unofficial parking or traffic control devices.#
The location of all parking or traffic control signs shall be under the director of public works, and no person, unless so directed, shall place, maintain or 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, mark or device, or which attempts to direct or regulate the movement of traffic, or which obstructs or hides from view any official sign or signal.
(Ord. of 6-2-97, § 1-3)
State Law reference— Unauthorized signs and devices, G.L. 1956, § 31-13-10.