Those streets and parts of streets described by ordinances of the City are declared to be through streets for the purposes of Sections
335.010 to
335.090.
Whenever any ordinance of the City designates and describes
a through street it shall be the duty of the Chief of Police or his/her
designee to place and maintain a stop sign, or on the basis of an
engineering and traffic investigation at any intersection a yield
sign, on each and every street intersecting such through street unless
traffic at any such intersection is controlled at all times by traffic
control signals; provided however, that at the intersection of two
(2) such through streets or at the intersection of a through street
and a heavy traffic street not so designated, stop signs shall be
erected at the approaches of either of said streets as may be determined
by the Chief of Police or his/her designee upon the basis of an engineering
and traffic study.
The Chief of Police or his/her designee is hereby authorized to determine and designate intersections where particular hazard exists upon other than through streets and to determine whether vehicles shall stop at one (1) or more entrances to any such intersection in which event he/she shall cause to be erected a stop sign at every such place where a stop is required, or whether vehicles shall yield the right-of-way to vehicles on a different street at such intersection as prescribed in Subsection
(A) of Section
335.040, in which event he/she shall cause to be erected a yield sign at every place where obedience thereto is required.
Except when directed to proceed by a Police Officer or traffic control signal, every driver of a vehicle approaching a stop intersection indicated by a stop sign shall stop as required by Subsection
(B) of Section
335.040, and after having stopped shall yield the right-of-way to any vehicle which has entered the intersection from another highway or which is approaching so closely on said highway as to constitute an immediate hazard during the time when such driver is moving across or within the intersection.
The driver of a vehicle approaching a yield sign shall in obedience
to such sign slow down to a speed reasonable for the existing conditions
and shall yield the right-of-way to any vehicle in the intersection
or approaching on another highway so closely as to constitute an immediate
hazard during the time such driver is moving across or within the
intersection; provided however, that if such a driver is involved
in a collision with a vehicle in the intersection, after driving past
a yield sign without stopping, such collision shall be deemed prima
facie evidence of his/her failure to yield right-of-way.
The driver of a vehicle within a business or residence district
emerging from an alley, driveway or building shall stop such vehicle
immediately prior to driving onto a sidewalk or onto the sidewalk
area extending across any alleyway or driveway, and shall yield the
right-of-way to any pedestrian as may be necessary to avoid collision,
and upon entering the roadway shall yield the right-of-way to all
vehicles approaching on said roadway.
No driver shall enter an intersection or a marked crosswalk
unless there is sufficient space on the other side of the intersection
or crosswalk to accommodate the vehicle he/she is operating without
obstructing the passage of other vehicles or pedestrians, notwithstanding
any traffic control signal indication to proceed.
Every motor vehicle transporting passengers, for hire, every
school bus, and every motor vehicle transporting high explosives,
or poisonous or compressed inflammable gases, and every motor vehicle
used for the transportation of inflammable or corrosive liquids in
bulk, whether loaded or empty, shall, upon approaching any railroad
grade crossing, other than a crossing that is specifically exempted
from the stopping requirement by order of the division of transportation
of the department of economic development, be brought to a full stop
within fifty feet, but not less than fifteen feet, from the nearest
rail of such railroad grade crossing, and shall not proceed until
due caution has been taken to ascertain that the course is clear,
except that such full stop shall not be required at a streetcar crossing
within a business or residence district, nor at a railroad grade crossing
protected by a watchman or traffic officer on duty or by a traffic
control signal (not railroad flashing signal) giving positive indication
to approaching vehicles to proceed, nor when the division of transportation
has ordered the placement of an exempt sign at the crossing.