[R.O. 2009 § 315.010; Ord. No. 4392, 12-14-2023]
The City Traffic Engineer is hereby authorized and 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.
[R.O. 2009 § 315.020; Ord. No. 4392, 12-14-2023]
All traffic control signs, signals, and devices shall conform
to the manual and specifications approved by the State Highways and
Transportation Commission or those 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.
[R.O. 2009 § 315.030; Ord. No. 4392, 12-14-2023]
A. 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, including Section
315.010, unless otherwise directed by a traffic or Police Officer, subject to the exceptions granted the driver of an authorized emergency vehicle in this Title.
B. When a traffic control signal is not operating due
to mechanical failure or other reasons, all traffic shall come to
a complete stop before proceeding through the intersection at which
the non-operating signal is stationed.
[R.O. 2009 § 315.040; Ord. No. 4392, 12-14-2023]
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.
[R.O. 2009 § 315.050; Ord. No. 4392, 12-14-2023]
A. Whenever official traffic control devices are placed
in position approximately conforming to the requirements of this Title,
such devices shall be presumed to have been so placed by the official
act or direction of lawful authority, unless the contrary shall be
established by competent evidence.
B. Any official traffic control device placed pursuant
to the provisions of this Title and purporting to conform to the lawful
requirements pertaining to such devices shall be presumed to comply
with the requirements of this Title, unless the contrary shall be
established by competent evidence.
[R.O. 2009 § 315.060; Ord. No. 4392, 12-14-2023]
A. Whenever traffic is controlled by traffic control signals
exhibiting different colored lights or colored lighted arrows, successively
one (1) at a time or in combination, only the colors green, red and
yellow shall be used except for special pedestrian signals carrying
a word legend, and said lights shall indicate and apply to drivers
of vehicles and pedestrians as follows:
1.
Green Indication.
a.
Vehicular traffic facing a circular green
signal may proceed straight through or turn right or left unless a
sign at such place prohibits either such turn. But vehicular traffic,
including vehicles turning right or left, shall yield the right-of-way
to other vehicles and to pedestrians lawfully within the intersection
or an adjacent crosswalk at the time such signal is exhibited.
b.
Vehicular traffic facing a green arrow signal,
shown alone or in combination with another indication, may cautiously
enter the intersection only to make the movement indicated by such
arrow or such other movement as is permitted by other indications
shown at the same time. Such vehicular traffic shall yield the right-of-way
to pedestrians lawfully within an adjacent crosswalk and to other
traffic lawfully using the intersection.
c.
Unless otherwise directed by a pedestrian control signal as provided in Section
315.070, pedestrians facing any green signal, except when the sole green signal is a turn arrow, may proceed across the roadway within any marked or unmarked crosswalk.
2.
Steady Yellow Indication.
a.
Vehicular traffic facing a steady yellow signal
is thereby warned that the related green movement is being terminated
or that a red indication will be exhibited immediately thereafter
when vehicular traffic shall not enter the intersection.
b.
Pedestrians facing a steady yellow signal, unless otherwise directed by a pedestrian control signal as provided in Section
315.070, are thereby advised that there is insufficient time to cross the roadway before a red indication is shown and no pedestrian shall then start to cross the roadway.
3.
Steady Red Indication.
a.
Vehicular traffic facing a steady red signal alone shall stop before entering the crosswalk on the near side of the intersection or, if none, then before entering the intersection and shall remain standing until a green indication is shown except as provided in Subsection
(A)(3)(b) of this Section.
b.
The driver of a vehicle which is stopped as
close as practicable at the entrance to the crosswalk on the near
side of the intersection or, if none, then at the entrance to the
intersection in obedience to a red signal may cautiously enter the
intersection to make a right turn but shall yield the right-of-way
to pedestrians and other traffic proceeding as directed by the signal
at the intersection, except that the State Highways and Transportation
Commission with reference to an intersection involving a State highway,
and local authorities with reference to an intersection involving
other highways under their jurisdiction, may prohibit any such right
turn against a red signal at any intersection where safety conditions
so require, said prohibition shall be effective when a sign is erected
at such intersection giving notice thereof.
c.
Unless otherwise directed by a pedestrian control signal as provided in Section
315.070, pedestrians facing a steady red signal alone shall not enter the roadway.
4.
In the event an official traffic control signal
is erected and maintained at a place other than an intersection, the
provisions of this Section shall be applicable except as to those
provisions which by their nature can have no application. Any stop
required shall be made at a sign or marking on the pavement indicating
where the stop shall be made, but in the absence of any such sign
or marking, the stop shall be made at the signal.
[R.O. 2009 § 315.070; Ord. No. 4392, 12-14-2023]
A. Whenever special pedestrian control signals exhibiting
the words "Walk" or "Don't Walk" or appropriate symbols are in place,
such signals shall indicate as follows:
1.
"WALK": Pedestrians facing such signal may
proceed across the roadway in the direction of the signal and shall
be given the right-of-way by the drivers of all vehicles.
2.
"WAIT" or "DON'T WALK": No pedestrian shall
start to cross the roadway in the direction of such signal, but any
pedestrian who has partially completed his/her crossing on the walk
signal shall proceed to a sidewalk or safety zone while the wait signal
is showing.
[R.O. 2009 § 315.080; Ord. No. 4392, 12-14-2023]
A. Whenever an illuminated flashing red or yellow signal
is used in a traffic sign or signal, it shall require obedience by
vehicular traffic as follows:
1.
Flashing Red (Stop Signal). When a red lens
is illuminated with rapid intermittent flashes, drivers of vehicles
shall stop before entering the nearest crosswalk at an intersection
or at a limit line when marked or, if none, then before entering the
intersection, and the right to proceed shall be subject to the rules
applicable after making a stop at a stop sign.
2.
Flashing Yellow (Caution Signal). When a yellow
lens is illuminated with rapid intermittent flashes, drivers of vehicles
may proceed through the intersection or past such signal only with
caution.
B. This Section shall not apply at railroad grade crossings. Conduct of drivers of vehicles approaching railroad grade crossings shall be governed by the rules as set forth in Section
335.090 of this Title.
[R.O. 2009 § 315.090; Ord. No. 4392, 12-14-2023]
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.
[R.O. 2009 § 315.100; Ord. No. 4392, 12-14-2023]
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.
[R.O. 2009 § 315.110; Ord. No. 4392, 12-14-2023]
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.
[R.O. 2009 § 315.120; R.O. 2006
§ 315.130; Ord. No. 497 § 26, 6-26-1979; Ord.
No. 4392, 12-14-2023]
A. 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.
B. 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. 2009 § 315.140; Ord. No. 3822, 6-28-2018; Ord. No. 4392, 12-14-2023]
When an event is held at a school that is expected to attract
a significant influx of motor vehicles, the City Administrator and/or
the Board of Aldermen may, for the safety and convenience of Fenton
residents, designate "Temporary No Parking Zones" within five hundred
(500) feet of a school for the time period surrounding the event.
Upon such designation, the Traffic Engineer, the City Administrator,
or their designee shall cause signs or other devices to be erected
prior to the event to notify persons of such "Temporary No Parking
Zone" designation and cause such signs or devices to be subsequently
removed thereafter. Whenever authorized signs are erected indicating
a "Temporary No Parking Zone," no person shall park a vehicle in such
designated zone.