[Ord. No. 12-2024, 5-28-2024]
The City Traffic Engineer shall place and maintain 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. Any signage
not covered in an ordinance must be approved through the City Council
before it can be added by the City Traffic Engineer.
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 City Council
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 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.
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.
[Ord. No. 12-2024, 5-28-2024]
The City Council shall have authority to declare any street
or part thereof a play street and to direct the City Traffic Engineer
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.
[Ord. No. 12-2024, 5-28-2024]
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
for up to, but not exceed, ninety (90) days.
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
for up to, but not exceed, ninety (90) days.
3. Before the expiration of the ninety (90) days, the City Traffic Engineer
must obtain approval from the City Council in order to make the changes
permanent.
4. All violations of the temporary changes in the ninety (90) day period
before Council approval will be subject to the same penalties as if
changes were already permanent.