[CC 1976 §315.010]
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.
[CC 1976 §315.020]
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 legislative
body 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.
[CC 1976 §315.030; Ord. No. 754 §4.3, 1-31-1961; Ord. No. 1106 §2, 12-12-1972]
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. Intersections which
are to be regulated by the use of traffic control devices are listed
in Schedule XI at the end of this Title.
[CC 1976 §315.040]
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.
[CC 1976 §315.080; Ord. No. 754 §4.8, 1-31-1961]
A. 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 railroad sign or signal, 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 or any railroad sign or signal.
B. No person
shall place or maintain nor shall any public authority permit upon
any highway any traffic sign or signal bearing thereon any commercial
advertising.
C. This
Section shall not be deemed to prohibit the erection upon private
property adjacent to highways of signs giving useful directional information
and of a type that cannot be mistaken for official signs.
D. Every
such prohibited sign, signal or marking is hereby declared to be a
public nuisance and the authority having jurisdiction over the highway
is hereby empowered to remove the same or cause it to be removed without
notice.
[CC 1976 §315.090]
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 railroad sign or signal or any inscription, shield or
insignia thereon, or any other part thereof.
[CC 1976 §315.100]
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.
[CC 1976 §315.110]
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.