Chapter 20
MOTOR VEHICLES AND TRAFFIC1
Article I. In General
20-2 Compliance with chapter and state law required.
20-3 Authority to control traffic.
20-4 Application of chapter to drivers of authorized emergency vehicles.
20-6 Coasting or sliding restricted.
20-11 Driver’s responsibility to notify police department when involved in an accident.
20-12 Bicycle and pedestrian pathways; designated, prohibited conduct.
20-14—20-22. Reserved.
Article II. Operation of Vehicles Generally
20-23 Authority to regulate generally.
20-24 License to operate required.
20-28 Approaching intersecting highways; turns at intersections.
20-29 Procedure upon approach of emergency vehicle.
20-30 Following fire apparatus.
20-32 Manner of overtaking and passing vehicles.
20-33 Authority to designate one-way streets.
20-34 Manner of passing on one-way streets.
20-35 Signal of intention to change lanes required.
20-36 When passing prohibited.
20-37 Obedience to lane markings required.
20-38 Manner of turning, starting or stopping.
20-41 Authority to designate school zones and erect signs.
20-42 Authority to restrict use of streets by trucks.
20-43 Designation of through truck routes.
20-44 Stop when traffic obstructed.
20-45—20-52. Reserved.
Article III. Parking, Stopping and Standing
Division 1. Generally
20-53 Authority to regulate parking; signs to be replaced.
20-54 Authority to designate loading zones.
20-54.1. Loading zone permits/coupons.
20-57 Unlawful to violate parking regulations.
20-58 Registered owner of vehicle deemed to have authorized violation.
20-59 Parking nonmotorized vehicles for periods longer than twenty-four hours prohibited.
20-60 Leaving vehicles on street for purpose of selling or renting.
20-61 Extended parking prohibited.
20-62 Parking on premises of another prohibited.
20-63 Authority to close streets to parking.
20-64 Hotel guest loading spaces.
20-67 Waiver of issuance of process in a trial; voluntary payment of penalty; appeal.
20-68 Parking on Church Street Marketplace.
20-69 Vehicles providing emergency medical services.
20-70 Authorization for alternate side of street parking regulations.
Division 2. Removal of Unlawfully Parked Vehicles
20-71 Authorized; expenses of removal.
20-72 Record of removed vehicle.
20-75 Expenses of city to constitute lien; foreclosure.
20-76 Charges not a fine, penalty or forfeiture.
20-77 Towing of vehicles on private property.
20-79 Towing and storage of vehicles for nonpayment.
20-80 Limited violation forgiveness.
20-81—20-82. Reserved.
Division 3. Parking Meters
20-83 Establishment of meter zones.
20-84 Installation and maintenance.
20-88 Periods when payment is required.
20-95 Disabled persons exempt from requirements.
20-96—20-100. Reserved.
Division 4. City Owned or Leased Lots
20-101 Installation and operation of meters.
20-103 Use of space permitted upon payment.
20-104 When vehicle illegally parked.
20-106 Slugs or other devices.
20-109 When division effective.
20-110—20-119. Reserved.
Article IV. Traffic-Control Devices
20-121 Traffic-control signals generally.
20-123 Unauthorized signs, signals or markings.
20-124 Damaging signs or devices.
20-125 Bicycle-specific traffic-control signals.
20-126 Bicycle use of pedestrian-control signals.
20-127—20-134. Reserved.
Article V. Pedestrians
20-135 Obedience to directions and signals.
20-136 Pedestrian-control signal.
20-137 Manner of crossing street.
20-138 Use of right half of crosswalks.
20-139 Vehicles to yield to pedestrians crossing in crosswalk.
20-140 Vehicles not to pass another stopped for pedestrians.
20-141 When pedestrians to yield to vehicles.
20-142 Not to step off curb in path of vehicle.
20-144 Duty of drivers to exercise due care.
20-145—20-154. Reserved.
Article VI. Abandoned Vehicles and Vehicles Unlawfully Parked on Lawns and Yards
20-156 Parking on lawns or yards in residential districts prohibited.
20-157 Leaving dismantled, nonoperating or unregistered vehicles on streets prohibited.
20-158 Authority to remove vehicles.
20-161 Violation as public nuisance.
Charter reference—Power of city council to appoint board of traffic commissioners, § 48(LVIII(B)); power of board to adopt traffic regulations, § 48(LVIII(C)).
Cross reference—Airport taxicab and limousine service, § 3-18 et seq.; bicycles, Ch. 6; certain conveyances prohibited in cemetery, § 9-12; motor vehicles subject to park regulations, § 22-16; streets and sidewalks, Ch. 27; taxicabs, § 30-16 et seq.; rules and regulations of traffic commissions, App. C.
State law reference—Authority of city to regulate traffic, 24 V.S.A. § 2291(4); authority to make special regulations applicable to state highways, 23 V.S.A. § 1008.