Town Of Bridgton, Maine Snow Plowing Notice

TOWN OF BRIDGTON

TRAFFIC ORDINANCE

Enacted: January 10, 1995. Revised: August 27, 1996, January 2002, March 2002

AN ORDINANCE REGULATING TRAFFIC UPON THE PUBLIC STREETS OF THE TOWN OF BRIDGTON AND REPEALING ALL OTHER ORDINANCES AND SECTIONS OF ORDINANCES IN CONFLICT HEREWITH.

Be it enacted by the Board of Selectmen for the Town of Bridgton as follows:

Sec. I STOPPING, STANDING OR PARKING PROHIBITED IN SPECIFIED PLACES

No person shall stop, stand or park a vehicle, except when necessary to avoid conflict with other traffic, or in compliance with law, or the directions of a Police Officer, or traffic controlled device, in any of the following places:

1. On a sidewalk;

2. In front of a public or private driveway or alley way;

3. Within an intersection;

4. Within ten feet of a fire hydrant;

5. On a crosswalk;

6. Within 15 feet of the near corner of the curbs at intersection, except where otherwise designated;

7. Within 15 feet upon the approach to any stop sign located at the side of a roadway;

8. Within Fire Lane where signs are erected giving notice thereof as described in Schedule III, included in this ordinance;

9. On the roadway side of any vehicle stopped or parked at the edge of a curb or street;

10. Upon any bridge;

11. At any place where official signs, white painted curbs or other curb painting or other road painting or markings so prohibit.

Sec. II

No person shall stop, stand, park or leave his vehicle on any street in such a manner or under such condition so as to obstruct the free passage of other vehicles in either direction unless specifically permitted by a Police Officer, or so as to leave available less than fifteen feet of the width of the roadway for free movement of vehicular traffic.

Sec. III

No person shall allow, permit or suffer any vehicle in his possession to stand or park on any street, headed in the direction of lawful traffic movement a distance greater than 12 inches from the curb or edge of the roadway or to stand or park on any street facing oncoming traffic.

Sec. IV PARKING TIME LIMITED ON STREETS

Between November 1st and April 15th no vehicle shall be parked on any public street or way from 11:00p.m. to 7:00a.m., so as to interfere with or hinder the removal of snow from said street or way by the Town plowing or loading and hauling. Parking may be prohibited with notification to facilitate daytime snow removal.

The Chief of Police or his designee may cause any vehicle so parked on any street or way to be moved and placed in a suitable parking space off of the street, at the expense of the owner of such vehicle, and without the Town being liable for any damage that may be caused by such removal.

Sec. V

When signs are erected giving notice thereof, no person shall park a vehicle at any time upon any of the streets or parts of streets described in Schedule I & II included in this Ordinance.

When signs have been erected giving notice thereof, parking will be limited to those with appropriate handicap identification in the two spaces provided at the main entrance to the Bridgton Municipal Complex, 1 Chase Common, Bridgton, Maine.

When signs have been erected giving notice thereof, parking will be limited to thirty minutes in the four spaces provided at the main entrance to the Bridgton Municipal Complex, 1 Chase Common, Bridgton, Maine. This is for the purpose of allowing parking for people to conduct short term business at either the Town Office or the District Court Office. (rev. 8-27-96)

Sec. VI

When signs are erected giving notice thereof, no person shall park a vehicle for longer than the period of time specified in Section XI, between the hours of 9:00a.m. to 10:00p.m., except Sundays and Legal Holidays, upon any of the streets or parts described in Section X of this Ordinance.

Sec. VII SCHEDULE OF STREETS AND WAYS AND SECTIONS THEREOF PROHIBITING PARKING AT ANY TIME

SCHEDULE I. The northeasterly side of Main Street from the

easterly side of the driveway at 90 Main

Street to Chase Street; from Hayes Block (ie;

Bridgton News) to Tannery Bridge;

SCHEDULE II. The southerly side of Main Street from Walker

Street to Cottage Street; from west side of

Church Street to Tannery Bridge; from Renys

parking lot to lower intersection of Gibbs Avenue.

SCHEDULE III. The easterly side of Gibbs Avenue to Fire

Station; the northerly and southerly side of

lower section of Gibbs Avenue from the Fire

Station to Main Street.

SCHEDULE IV. The northeasterly and southeasterly sides of

North High Street from the Civil War Monument

to Fire Lane #241.

SCHEDULE V. No Parking Zone on Route 302, Moose Pond Cause-

way, on the southeast side of Route 302 from Moose

Pond boat launch for a distance of 550 feet west

of that point of origin. (1/02)

SCHEDULE VI. No Parking Zone on the West side of Chase Street

between Main Street and Bennett Street for a dis-

tance of 425 feet. (3/02)

Sec. VIII SCHEDULE OF STREET AND SECTIONS OF STREETS PERMITTING PARKING WHERE SIGNS ARE ERECTED GIVING NOTICE THEREOF AND TIME LIMIT

SCHEDULE I. The southerly side of Main Street from the

east side of the parking lot of 17 Main

Street to Walker Street; from Cottage

Street to Church Street; from Depot Street to

the Cool Moose; from lower intersections of

Gibbs Avenue to Portland Street.

SCHEDULE II. The northeasterly side of Main Street from

the Easterly side of Bacon Street to Hayes

Block; from Tannery Bridge to Flint Street.

Sec. IX

The provisions of this Ordinance prohibiting the standing or parking of a vehicle shall apply at all times or at those times herein specified or as indicated on official signs except when it is necessary to stop a vehicle to avoid conflict with other traffic or in compliance with the directions of a police officer or official traffic-control device.

Sec. X

When signs are erected giving notice thereof, no person shall park a vehicle at any time upon any of the streets described in Section VII, Schedule I, II, III, IV, V and VI included in this Ordinance.

Sec. XI

When signs are erected giving notice thereof, no person shall park a vehicle for longer than the time specified between the hours of 9:00a.m. and 10:00p.m. of any day except Sundays and public holidays upon any of the streets described in Section VIII, Schedule IV and V included in this Ordinance.

Sec. XII

Whenever by this or any other ordinance of this Town any parking time limit is imposed or parking is prohibited on designated streets it shall be the duty of the Town Manager or his designee to erect appropriate signs giving

notice thereof and no such regulations shall be effective unless said signs are erected and in place at the time of any alleged offense.

Sec. XIII

The Town Manager with the approval of the Board of Selectmen shall place and maintain, or cause to be placed and maintained, traffic-control signs, signals and devices when and as required or authorized under this Ordinance, and may place and maintain such additional traffic-control devices as he may deem necessary to regulate traffic under this Ordinance or under State Law, or to guide or warn traffic, including angle parking signs, and markings, turning markers, and signs prohibiting left, right or U turns, the location of which he is authorized to determine. All traffic control devices so erected and not inconsistent with the provisions of the State Law or this Ordinance shall be official traffic control devices.

Sec. XIV GENERAL PENALTY

Unless another penalty is expressly provided by State Law, any person convicted of a violation of any provisions of this Ordinance shall be punished by a fine of not more than $100.00 except as otherwise provided in the following subsections of this section; and any such fines or penalties shall accrue to the Town.

Any person violating any parking provisions of this Ordinance shall be subject to the general penalty imposed for violation of this Ordinance; however, such person may elect, in lieu of such penalty, to pay the sum of $10.00 for the first offense of such violation, and $20.00 for the second and subsequent offenses. Such payment shall in no event be construed as an enforced imposition of a fine or penalty, but on the other hand shall be construed to be an amount which an offender may voluntarily contribute towards the cost and expense of furnishing to the public a less expensive alternative method of regulating and administering traffic law violations. If, however such payment is not made at the Town Office or Office of the Chief of Police within 72 hours after notice of such violation is served,

by traffic ticket or otherwise, this alternative method is not available or applicable, and the penalty provided by this Ordinance shall be imposed.

After one hour if a vehicle is still parked in violation after being cited for a first offense, the second offense penalty will apply and the vehicle shall be subject to being towed at the owner's expense.

Sec. XV

If any part or parts of this Ordinance are for any reason held to be invalid, such decision shall not affect the validity of the remaining portions of this Ordinance.

Sec. XVI

All former traffic ordinances of this Town are hereby repealed except that this repeal shall not affect or prevent the prosecution or punishment of any person for any act done or committed prior to the enactment of this Ordinance.

Sec. XVII

The Town Clerk shall certify to the passage of this Ordinance and cause the same to be published in the Bridgton News.

Sec. XVIII

This Ordinance may be known and cited as the Traffic Ordinance.

Sec. XIX

This Ordinance shall take effect upon its adoption by the Board of Selectmen.

This Ordinance was adopted on January 10, 1995 following the public hearing held for that purpose under the authority granted by 30A MRSA 3009.