[Code 1964, § 17-80]
The Commissioner of Public Safety shall place and maintain traffic
control signs, signals and devices when and as required under the
traffic ordinances of this City to make effective the provisions of
these ordinances, and additional traffic control devices may be placed
and maintained as may be deemed necessary to regulate traffic under
the traffic ordinances of this City or under state law or to guide
or warn traffic.
[Code 1964, § 17-82]
The driver of any vehicle shall obey the instructions of any
applicable official traffic control device placed in accordance with
the traffic ordinances of this City, unless otherwise directed by
a police officer, subject to the exceptions granted the driver of
an authorized emergency vehicle in this chapter.
[Code 1964, § 17-83]
(a)
Authority. The Commissioner of Public Safety may declare any
street or part of a street a play street and place appropriate signs
or devices in the roadway indicating and helping to protect the play
street.
(b)
Duty of driver. Whenever authorized signs are erected indicating
any street or part of a street as a play street, no person shall drive
a vehicle upon any play street or portion of the street except a driver
of a vehicle having business or whose residence is within the closed
area, and then any driver shall exercise the greatest care in driving
upon any play street or portion of the play street.
[Code 1964, § 17-84]
The Commissioner of Public Safety may:
(1)
Designate and maintain, by appropriate devices, marks or lines
upon the surface of the roadway, crosswalks at intersections where,
in the Commissioner's opinion, there is particular danger to pedestrians
crossing the roadway and at such other places as the Commissioner
may deem necessary for the protection of pedestrians.
(2)
Establish safety zones of such kind and character and at such
places as the Commissioner may deem necessary for the protection of
pedestrians.
(3)
Mark lanes for traffic on street pavements at such places as
the Commissioner may deem necessary and advisable, consistent with
the traffic ordinances of this City.
[Code 1964, § 17-85]
Speed limit signs shall be posted on every main highway entering
the City and also on every main highway within the limits of the City
where the rate of speed changes.
[Code 1964, § 17-86(a)]
The Commissioner of Public Safety may, after engineering and
traffic investigations, remove existing stop signs and replace these
stop signs, designating the safe rate of speed for vehicles approaching
and crossing intersections. Any stop sign removed as authorized by
this section shall be replaced within a sixty-day period unless an
ordinance is adopted ordering the removal of the stop sign.
[Code 1964, § 17-87]
The Commissioner of Public Safety may place markers, buttons
or signs within or adjacent to intersections indicating the course
to be traveled by vehicles turning at these intersections, and the
course to be traveled as so indicated may conform to or be other than
prescribed by law or ordinance.
[Code 1964, § 17-89]
Whenever any ordinance of this City designates any one-way street
or alley, the Commissioner of Public Safety shall place and maintain
signs giving notice of the one-way street or alley, and no ordinance
shall be effective unless the signs are in place. Signs indicating
the direction of lawful traffic movement shall be placed at every
intersection where movement of traffic in the opposite direction is
prohibited.
[Code 1964, § 17-90]
Every stop sign erected shall bear the word "stop" in letters
not less than six inches in height, and the stop sign shall at nighttime
be rendered luminous by steady or flashing internal illumination or
by a fixed floodlight projected on the face of the sign or by efficient
reflecting elements on the face of the sign. Every stop sign shall
be located as near as practicable at the nearest line of the crosswalk
on the near side of the intersection or, if none, at the nearest line
of the roadway.
[Code 1964, § 17-91]
Whenever any ordinance of this City designates and describes a through street, the Commissioner of Public Safety shall place and maintain a stop sign on each and every street intersecting the through street or intersecting that portion of the through street described and designated as such by any ordinance of this City. Those streets and parts of streets described in Section 2-16-357 are declared to be through streets.
[Code 1964, § 17-92]
Where any ordinance of the City designates and describes an intersection where a particular hazard exists upon other than through streets, the Commissioner of Public Safety shall place and maintain a stop sign at one or more entrances to any hazardous intersection as described and designated by any ordinance of the City. Those intersections described in Section 2-16-358 are declared and designated as stop intersections.
[Code 1964, § 17-93]
(a)
The Commissioner of Public Works may designate certain City
streets or portions of streets as restricted highways and shall post
the street or portion of the street with a notice designating the
type of vehicular traffic or maximum gross vehicle weight that is
prohibited.
(b)
If use of the posted street or portion of the street is desired
by any person which would be in violation of the restricted highway
designation, a permit by the person may be obtained from the Commissioner
of Public Works upon the person's executing and filing sufficient
security with the Commissioner for repairs of any damage to the restricted
street or portion of the street caused by the prohibited use.
[Code 1964, § 17-152(a)]
The Commissioner of Public Safety may erect signs indicating
no parking upon that side of any street adjacent to any school property
when the parking would, in the Commissioner's opinion, interfere with
traffic or create a hazardous situation.
[Code 1964, § 17-153(a)]
The Commissioner of Public Safety may erect signs indicating
no parking upon any street when the width of the roadway does not
exceed 20 feet or upon one side of a street, as indicated by no-parking
signs, when the width of the roadway does not exceed 30 feet.
[Code 1964, § 17-154]
The Commissioner of Public Safety may erect signs upon the left-hand
side of any one-way street to prohibit the standing or parking of
vehicles.
