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TOWN OF BREWSTER
REGULATIONS GOVERNING ROADSIDE PARKING ON TOWN WAYS
NEAR TOWN LANDINGS
The Board of Selectmen of the Town of Brewster, acting pursuant to the authority set
forth in Massachusetts General Laws, Chapter 40, §22 and Chapter 90, Section 20A1/2 (the
provisions of which were accepted by the Town of Brewster on 9/21/1981), hereby adopts the
following Regulations pertaining to parking on Town Ways near Town Landings.
I, Purpose
Whereas, the Selectmen find that, between the Saturday before Memorial Day and Labor
Day each year, numerous residents and visitors park motor vehicles, boats and trailers along the
Town Ways leading to Town Landings in the Town of Brewster,
Whereas, the Selectmen find that this increase in parking during the summer months
presents a danger to vehicular and pedestrian traffic going to and from the Town Landings and,
further, presents a hazard to emergency response efforts.
Now therefore, in order to protect the public safety and provide for (lie reasonable
regulation of parking on these Town Ways, the Brewster Board of Selectmen hereby adopts the
following Regulations governing roadside parking on Town Ways near Town Landings.
Il. Definitions
"Road Layout" shall mean the formal layout of the Town Way as described in the legal
instrument creating the Town Way.
"Town Way" shall mean a way, legally laid out by the Town of Brewster in the manner
prescribed by statute.
"Traveled Portion" shall mean that part of the Road Layout that is improved for travel by
paving or otherwise.
III,_ YRegula tiona
Between the Saturday before Memorial Day and Labor Day of each year, parking of
motor vehicles, boats and trailers shall be prohibited from parking within the Traveled Portion
of the Road Layout of the following Town Ways within the Town of Brewster:
Paines Creels Road as it extends from Lower Road to the Beach Parking Lot;
Robbins Hill Road for the entire length of the Road Layout;
Breakwater Road for the entire length of the Road Layout;
Point of Roelcs Road as it extends from Cathedral Road to the designated parking spaces
at the end of Point of Rocks Road where it terminates at the Beach;
Foster Road as it extends from Cathedral Road to the designated parking spots at the end
of Foster Road where it terminates at the Beach;
Ellis Landing Road for the entire length of the Road Layout;
Linnell Landing Road for the entire length of the Road Layout;
Crosby Lane for the entire length of the Road Layout;
Drake Way for the entire length of the Road Layout;
Hillbourne Terrace for the entire length of the Road Layout;
Crowell's Bog Road for the entire length of the Road Layout; and
Fisherman's Landing Road as it extends from Harwich Road (Route 124) to the
designated parking at Sheep Pond.
VI. Violatiglis, Penalties and Enforcement
Pursuant to the provisions of Massachusetts General Laws, Chapter 40, Section 22,
whoever shall violate the provisions of this Regulation shall be subject to a fine in the amount of
Thirty ($30.00) Dollars per occurrence.
Fines shall be issued in accordance with the provisions of Massachusetts General Laws,
Chapter 90, §20A'/2, wherein it shall be the duty of every police officer who takes cognizance of
a violation hereunder, to forthwith give the offender a notice, which shall be in tag forin as
provided in said Section 20A'/2, to appear before the Brewster Town Clerk at any time during
regular office hours, not later than twenty-one (21) days after the date of such violation. Said tag
shall be affixed securely to the motor vehicle and shall contain, but shall not be limited to, the
following information: the make, color and registration number of the vehicle involved and the
state of issuance of said registration number, the date, time and place of the violation, the
specific violation charged, the name and badge number of the officer and his division, a schedule
of established fines, instructions for the return of the tag and it notice which reads: "This notice
may be returned by mail, personally or by an authorized person. A hearing may be obtained upon
the written request of the registered owner. Failure to obey this notice within twenty-one days
after the(late of violation may result in the non-renewal of the license to drive and the
registration of the registered owner."
The Brewster Police Department shall also have authority to toiv the motor vehicle in the
event it is not removed within four(4) hours of the issuance of the fine, or in the event the
enforcing officer determines the vehicle is causing a public safety hazard.
The Brewster Town Clerk, as duly appointed Parking Clerk for the Town of Brewster,
shall maintain a docket of all such notices to appear. Any person notified to appear before the
Parking Clerk, as provided herein, may appear before such parking clerk, or his designee, and
confess the offense charged, either personally or through an agent duly authorized in writing or
by mailing to such Parking Clerk the notice accompanied by the fine provided therein. Payment
of the fine established shall operate as a final disposition of the case.
Should any person fail to pay the tine, or having appeared desire not to pay the fine, the
Parking Clerk shall forthwith schedule a hearing. Written notice of the date, time and place of
said hearing shall be sent by first-class mail to the registered owner. Said hearing shall be
informal, the rules of evidence shall not apply and the decision of the hearing officer shall be
final subject to judicial review as provided by section fourteen of chapter thirty A of the General
Laws.
Whereby, after a duly noticed public hearing, the foregoing Regulation is adopted by the
Brewster Board of Selectmen on this day of2015, and shall take effect
immediately.
Benjamin deRuyter, Chairman James W. Foley
Patricia E. Hughes, Vit e Chair Peter G.Norton
John . Di son
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