[Code 1975 §15.02(8); CC 1989 §13-266]
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 the State law or to guide or warn
traffic.
[Code 1975 §15.02(5); CC 1989 §13-268]
All traffic control signs, signals and devices shall conform
to the manual and specifications approved by the State Highways and
Transportation Commission or ordinance adopted by the Board of Aldermen.
All signs and signals required herein 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 Chapter shall be official traffic control
devices.
[Code 1975 §15.09(1); CC 1989 §13-271]
A.
The driver
of any vehicle shall obey instructions of any official traffic control
device applicable thereto placed in accordance with this Title unless
otherwise directed by a Police Officer, subject to the exceptions
granted the driver of an emergency vehicle.
B.
No provisions
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.
[Code 1975 §15.09(14); CC 1989 §13-267]
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 direction or act 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.
[Code 1975 §15.09(2); CC 1989 §13-272]
A.
Whenever
traffic is controlled by traffic control signals exhibiting colored
lights or colored lighted arrows, successively one (1) at a time,
or in combination, only the colors green, yellow and red shall be
used, except for special pedestrian control signals carrying a word
legend, and such 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 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.
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.
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 Paragraph (b) of this
Subsection.
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, such prohibition
shall be effective when a sign is erected at such intersection giving
notice thereof.
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.
[Code 1975 §15.09(3); CC 1989 §13-273]
A.
Whenever
special pedestrian control signals exhibiting the word "Walk" or "Don't
Walk" 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.
[Code 1975 §15.09(4); CC 1989 §13-274]
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; and
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 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 300.295, RSMo.
[Code 1975 §15.09(6); CC 1989 §13-276]
It shall be unlawful for the operator of a vehicle traveling
in a particular traffic lane on a roadway divided and marked into
lanes to disobey a sign, signal, arrow or marker along the roadway
which directs vehicles traveling in such lane to move in a particular
lane or direction or not to move into a different lane or in a different
direction.
[Code 1975 §15.09(12); CC 1989 §13-277]
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.
[Code 1975 §15.09(13); CC 1989 §13-278]
A.
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 any insignia
thereon or any other part thereof.
B.
It shall
be unlawful for any person to hide or obscure any official traffic
control device, or signal by the erection of any object, or by allowing
bushes, hedges, trees, or other vegetation to grow and obscure the
same.
C.
Unobstructed
vision for traffic safety shall be maintained by the owner or occupant
on all corner lots regardless of the zone classification with reference
to any vehicle, trailer, sign, fence, ornament, hedge, shrub, tree,
display, or any other obstruction, but not including buildings. No
such obstruction to view between three (3) and eight (8) feet above
the gutter line shall be placed or maintained within a triangular
area at the street corner, which area is bounded by:
1.
The
street property lines of the corner lot and a line connecting points
twenty-five (25) feet distant from the intersection of the property
lines of such lot; or
2.
The
curb lines of an intersection and a line connecting points thirty-five
(35) feet distant from the corner of the intersection and such corner
is determined by projecting the curb lines out to a specified point,
whichever is the lesser.
D.
Every
such object or vegetation is hereby declared a public nuisance and
the authority having jurisdiction over the public way is hereby empowered
to remove the same or cause same to be removed without notice.
A.
The City
Traffic Engineer is hereby authorized:
1.
To designate
and maintain, by appropriate devices, marks, or lines upon the surface
of the roadway, crosswalks at intersections where in his/her opinion
there is particular danger to pedestrians crossing the roadway, and
at such other places as he/she may deem necessary; and
2.
To establish
safety zones of such kind and character and at such places as he/she
may deem necessary for the protection of pedestrians.
[Code 1975 §15.02(6)(B); CC 1989 §13-269]
The City Traffic Engineer, or his/her designated representative,
may test traffic control devices under actual conditions of traffic.
A.
The City
Traffic engineer is hereby authorized to mark traffic lanes upon the
roadway of any street or highway where a regular alignment of traffic
is necessary.
B.
Where
such traffic lanes have been marked, it shall be unlawful for the
operator of any vehicle to fail or refuse to keep such vehicle within
the boundaries of any such lane except when lawfully passing another
vehicle or preparatory to making a lawful turning movement.
