[R.O. 2008 §16-55 — 16-75; Ord.
No. 977 §1(2.3 — 2.4, 2.6 — 2.23, 8.7), 1-5-1981]
A. The office
of City Traffic Engineer is established. The City Administrator or
other designated City Official shall serve as City Traffic Engineer
in addition to his/her other functions and shall exercise the powers
and duties with respect to traffic as provided in this Title.
B. The City
Traffic Engineer shall make recommendations regarding the installation
and proper timing and maintenance of traffic control devices, conduct
engineering analyses of traffic accidents and devise remedial measures,
conduct engineering investigation of traffic conditions, plan the
operation of traffic on the streets and highways of the City, and
cooperate with other City Officials in the development of ways and
means to improve traffic conditions, and carry out the additional
powers and duties imposed by ordinances of the City.
C. Authority To Enter Into Agreements With Landowners For Enforcement
Of Traffic Regulations On Privately Or Publicly Owned Land. The City may upon application of an owner or lessor of land, either
publicly or privately owned, open to vehicular traffic by the public
and used by the public as a thoroughfare with such thoroughfare paved,
marked and delineated, enter into an agreement with such owner or
lessor to extend the enforcement of traffic regulations to such thoroughfares
without requiring the owner to file a plat of the land and/or to dedicate
to the City such thoroughfare as a street; provided that the City
shall not be responsible for the maintenance or condition of such
thoroughfare and shall retain the power to terminate the agreement
at will.
D. Authority To Install Traffic Control Devices. The City Administrator
or his/her designated representative shall place and maintain traffic
control signs, signals and devices when and as required under this
Chapter to make effective its provisions and may place and maintain
such additional traffic control devices as are deemed necessary to
regulate traffic under this Chapter or State law or to guide or warn
traffic.