Code of Massachusetts Regulations › 700 CMR - DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION › Title 700 CMR 5.000 - Regulation Of Certain Roadways And Bridges › Section 5.502 - Violations

Current through Register 1525, July 5, 2024
Violations of the following parking provisions shall be
				considered a violation of
				700 CMR 5.000.
(1)
Parking Rules During Snow
			 Accumulation
. Notwithstanding any provisions of
			 700 CMR 5.000 permitting the
			 parking of vehicles, whenever snow or ice accumulates to a depth of two inches
			 or more, no person shall allow, permit or suffer any vehicle registered in
			 their name to stand or to remain upon a Metropolitan way or service way until
			 the Metropolitan way or service way or section thereof used for vehicular
			 travel has been cleared of snow or ice to within 12 inches of the curb or edge
			 of the roadway.
(2) Double Parking
			 is prohibited on the roadway side of any vehicle stopped or parked at the edge
			 or curb of a street.
(3) Parking
			 within ten feet of a fire hydrant is prohibited.
(4) Parking within an intersection is
			 prohibited as defined in
			 700 CMR
			 5.501.
(5) Parking in any Metropolitan way or
			 service way of the Department of Conservation and Recreation or part thereof
			 where signs have been placed for the purpose of facilitating the plowing or
			 removal of snow, the cleaning of streets or the maintenance of streets is
			 prohibited.
(6) Obstructing Public
			 Transportation is Prohibited. Parking in such a manner as to obstruct the
			 movement of any street car, trackless trolley, bus or railroad train is
			 prohibited.
(7)
Fire
			 Station Exit or Entrance
. Parking within 20 feet of the driveway
			 entrance or exit of any fire station or on the side of the Metropolitan way
			 opposite the entrance or exit of any fire station, within 75 feet of said
			 entrance or exit as posted is prohibited.
(8)
Railroad or Street Railway
			 Crossing
. Parking within 20 feet of the nearest rail of any grade
			 crossing is prohibited.
(9)
Crosswalk or Sidewalk
. Stop, stand or park a vehicle,
			 whether occupied or not, on any crosswalk, except momentarily to pick up or
			 discharge a passenger or passengers, nor upon any sidewalk is
			 prohibited.
(10)
Bus or
			 Trackless Trolley Stop
. Stop, stand or park a vehicle, other than
			 a bus or trackless trolley, in a bus or trackless trolley stand or stop when
			 such stand or stop has been officially designated by signs, except that the
			 driver of a passenger vehicle may temporarily stop therein for the purpose of
			 and while actually engaged in loading or unloading passengers when such
			 stopping does not interfere with any bus waiting to enter or about to enter
			 such zone is prohibited.
(11)
Parking in the Wrong Direction is Prohibited
. Persons
			 shall park in the direction of the flow of traffic pertaining to that side of
			 the street on which the vehicle is parked.
(12)
Emergency
			 Areas
. The Commissioner or the Commissioner's designee is hereby
			 directed to designate by signs places in which the stopping, standing or
			 parking of vehicles would create an emergency condition or would cause unusual
			 delay to traffic.
(13)
Bridge, Viaduct, Underpass, Tunnel
. No person shall
			 stop, stand or park a vehicle upon any bridge or viaduct or in any underpass or
			 tunnel or the approaches thereto or exists therefrom unless signs permitting
			 parking have been installed.
(14)
Restricted Area
. No person shall allow, permit or
			 suffer any vehicle registered in their name to stand, stop or park at any place
			 where official traffic signs have been placed or erected prohibiting stopping,
			 standing or parking.
(15)
Obstructing Driveways is Prohibited
. No person shall
			 stop, stand or park a vehicle, whether occupied or not, except momentarily to
			 pick up or discharge a passenger or passengers in front of a public driveway or
			 private driveway or road without the consent of the owner of the
			 driveway.
(16)
Obstructing Traffic Control Signals is Prohibited
. No
			 person shall stop, stand or park a vehicle so as to obstruct or hide from view
			 a traffic control signal except in compliance with a traffic signal
			 indication.
(17)
Parking in a No Passing Zone is Prohibited
. No person
			 shall stop, stand or park a vehicle upon any Metropolitan way in a rural or
			 sparsely settled district within any area designated either by signs or
			 pavement markings as a "No Passing Zone".
(18) Parking on Metropolitan Way with less
			 than ten feet passing clearance is prohibited.
(19) Angle Parking is permitted only upon
			 Metropolitan ways or service ways of the Department of Conservation and
			 Recreation or parts thereof which have been marked and signed for angle
			 parking, persons parking shall park with one wheel within 12 inches from the
			 curb or edge of the road and within the markings provided.
(20) Parking outside of the marked lines for
			 areas designated angle parking only is prohibited on Metropolitan ways or
			 service ways of the Department of Conservation and Recreation.
(21)
Parking More Than One Foot
			 Away from the Curb is Prohibited
. Except as otherwise provided in
			 700 CMR
			 5.501 and 5.502, every person stopping or
			 parking upon a Metropolitan way or service way of the Department of
			 Conservation and Recreation shall so stop or park with both wheels on the side
			 of the vehicle adjacent to the curb or edge of the roadway within 12 inches of
			 the curb or edge of the roadway.
Upon any parkway or boulevard where snow, ice, debris or other
				obstruction prevents the parking of a vehicle as specified above, any vehicle
				parked so as to obstruct the free flow of traffic shall be considered in
				violation of
				700 CMR
				5.501 and 5.502.
(22)
Parking in a Loading Zone is
			 Prohibited
. N o person shall stop, stand or park a vehicle for any
			 purpose or length of time except as provided below, other than for the
			 expeditious unloading and delivery or pick-up and loading of materials in any
			 place marked as a curb loading zone during the hours when the provisions
			 applicable to such zones are in effect.
In no case shall the stop for loading and unloading of
				materials exceed 30 minutes. The driver of a passenger vehicle may stop
				temporarily at a place marked as a curb loading zone for the purpose of and
				while actually engaged in loading or unloading passengers when such stopping
				does not interfere with any motor vehicle used for transportation of materials
				which is waiting to enter or about to enter such zone.
(23)
Angle Loading or Unloading
			 Rules
. The Commissioner and or the Commissioner's designee is
			 hereby authorized to issue special permits to allow the backing of a vehicle to
			 a curb for the purpose of loading or unloading merchandise or materials subject
			 to the terms, conditions, times and dates of such permits. Such permits may be
			 issued either to the owner or lessee of real property or the owner of the
			 vehicle, and shall grant to such person the privilege as therein stated and
			 authorized herein. It shall be unlawful for any permittee or other person to
			 violate any of the special terms or condition of any such permit.
(24)
Snow Emergency
			 Rules
. If it is the judgment of the Commissioner or the
			 Commissioner's designee that threatening weather conditions may impair the free
			 flow of vehicular traffic or that parked vehicles may impede the clearance of
			 snow, then the Commissioner or the Commissioner's designee may declare a state
			 of emergency under the powers vested in him by statutory law.
Whenever such an emergency is declared by the Commissioner or
				the Commissioner's designee, and he shall have caused announcement thereof by
				the use of available news and other media, the following parking prohibitions
				shall become effective:
No driver shall stop, stand or park any vehicle within the
				limits of any designated and posted "Emergency Artery" or upon the odd-numbered
				side of all other public ways, excepting such public ways which have already
				been or may be designated as "one side parking only" whether odd or even
				numbered, provided, however, that
				700 CMR
				5.501 through
				5.505
				shall not apply to passenger vehicles stopped temporarily during the actual
				receiving or discharging of passengers nor to commercial vehicles stopped
				temporarily during the actual loading or unloading of
				materials.
(25) Handicap
			 Parking. No person shall stop, stand or park in any area designated by official
			 sign as reserved for disabled persons, unless such vehicle bears HP (handicap
			 parking) plates or a HP placard issued by any state. Placards shall be
			 displayed on the dashboards of vehicles without HP plates, or in certain
			 instances hung from the rear view mirror. There are no exemptions to 700 CMR
			 5.502(27).
(26)
Handicap Ramp
. No driver shall stop, stand, or park in
			 front of any pedestrian sidewalk ramp (handicap ramp). No Exemptions (not even
			 HP or DV (Disabled Veteran) plates or placards). For ramps located within 20
			 feet of an intersection, no signs are required. For ramps located well beyond
			 an intersection, signage is required, unless roadway markings for a crosswalk
			 are present.
(27)
Resident Permit Only (Boston and Cambridge)
. No driver
			 shall stop, stand, or park in an area signed "Resident Permit Parking Only"
			 unless that vehicle bears the appropriate resident parking sticker as issued by
			 the Boston Transportation Department or the City of Cambridge.
An expired sticker is invalid. On each sticker is recorded the
				plate number of the vehicle to which the sticker was issued. The plate number
				on the sticker must match the plate number of the vehicle. Any discrepancies
				between the two or changes to the plate number on the sticker make the sticker
				invalid.
In Resident Parking Permit areas, an HP/DV reserved spot is
				available to any vehicle with the appropriate license plate. There is no such
				thing as a "Resident HP or DV" space.
Government vehicles and commercial vehicles, while doing work
				in the area, will be exempt from Resident Permit Parking
				restrictions.
(28)
Parkland
. No person shall stop, stand or park a
			 vehicle upon DCR parkland. (
See
700 CMR 5.40l(4).)
			 (
See
700 CMR
			 5.501: Parkland). No sign is needed to
			 enforce 700 CMR 5.502(28).
(29)
Travel Lane
. No person shall stop, stand or park a
			 vehicle within any portion of any DCR parkway, street, or highway. No sign is
			 needed to enforce 700 CMR 5.502(29).