The City Traffic Engineer shall place and maintain traffic control
signs, signals and devices when and as required under the traffic
ordinances of the City to make effective the provisions of said ordinances
and may place and maintain such additional traffic control devices
as he/she may deem necessary to regulate traffic under the traffic
ordinances of the City or under State law or to guide or warn traffic.
All traffic control signs, signals and devices shall conform
to the manual and specifications approved by the State Highways and
Transportation Commission or resolution adopted by the Board of Aldermen
of the City. All signs or signals required hereunder for a particular
purpose shall so far as practicable be uniform as to type and location
throughout the City. All traffic control devices so erected and not
inconsistent with the provisions of this Title shall be official traffic
control devices.
The driver of any vehicle shall obey the instructions of any
official traffic control device applicable thereto placed in accordance
with the provisions of this Title, unless otherwise directed by a
traffic or Police Officer, subject to the exceptions granted the driver
of an authorized emergency vehicle in this Title.
No provision of this Title for which official traffic control
devices are required shall be enforced against an alleged violator
if at the time and place of the alleged violation an official device
is not in proper position and sufficiently legible to be seen by an
ordinarily observant person. Whenever a particular Section does not
state that official traffic control devices are required, such Section
shall be effective even though no devices are erected or in place.
When lane direction control signals are placed over the individual
lanes of a street or highway, vehicular traffic may travel in any
lane over which a green signal is shown but shall not enter or travel
in any lane over which a red signal is shown.
No person shall place, maintain or display upon or in view of
any highway an unauthorized sign, signal, marking or device which
purports to be or is an imitation of or resembles an official traffic
control device, or which attempts to direct the movement of traffic,
or which hides from view or interferes with the effectiveness of any
official traffic control device.
No person shall without lawful authority attempt to or in fact
alter, deface, injure, knock down or remove any official traffic control
device or any inscription, shield or insignia thereon or any other
part thereof.
The City Traffic Engineer shall have authority to declare any
street or part thereof a play street and to place appropriate signs
or devices in the roadway indicating and helping to protect the same.
Whenever authorized signs are erected indicating any street
or part thereof as a play street, no person shall drive a vehicle
upon any such street or portion thereof except drivers of vehicles
having business or whose residences are within such closed area, and
then any said driver shall exercise the greatest care in driving upon
any such street or portion thereof.
[R.O. 2011 § 315.160; R.O. 2010 § 315.160;
2nd Ser. Ord. No. 292 §§ 1
— 5, 12-5-1988]
A. Purpose. The purpose of this Section is to provide for a means to
regulate traffic flow within the City of Owensville during such times
when a snow emergency exists.
B. Definitions. For purposes of this Section, the following definitions
shall be applicable:
SNOW EMERGENCY
Any time that there has been such snowfall which makes travel
on the public streets unsafe or difficult. A snow emergency shall
be declared by the Mayor after consultation with the Public Works
Director and City Clerk.
SNOW ROUTE
The designation by the Board of Aldermen of certain public
streets as the primary streets to be used during a period of a snow
emergency. Such streets shall receive priority as far as the removal
of snow is concerned.
SNOW ROUTE MAP
The map of the City which has depicted therein the streets
which have been designated as snow routes.
C. Violations. It shall be unlawful for any person to park a motorized
vehicle or trailer on a snow route at such times when a snow emergency
has been declared. The owner of any such vehicle or trailer illegally
parked shall be subject to the penalty as hereinafter set forth.
D. Procedure. The Board of Aldermen shall each year cause to be published
a snow route map depicting such streets as the Board has designated
as snow routes. In the event that no route map is published prior to November
30th of any year, the snow route map most recently adopted shall remain
in force.