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 State law or to guide or warn traffic.
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 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.
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 which attempts to direct the movement of traffic,
or which hides from view or interferes with the effectiveness of any
official traffic control device.
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 inscription, shield or insignia thereon or any other
part thereof.
[R.O. 2010 §305.130; C.O. 1948 c. 11 §1-69; CC
1970 §16-16]
A. The
Chief of Police, with the approval of the City Administrator, is authorized,
to close any street, alley, public place or highway and withdraw the
same from public use temporarily and during such period as public
work thereon or other public emergency or expediency shall make such
action necessary. No person shall use or attempt to use such street,
alley, public place or highway so withdrawn from public use or drive
or attempt to drive any vehicle or animal thereon.
B. The Chief of Police shall place a sign or placard at each end of the portion withdrawn from public use, such placard or sign to have the following words printed thereon in letters, three (3) inches high: "Street Closed. This street is closed to public use by authority of Section
315.115 of the Glendale City Code."
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.
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. 2010 §315.160; CC 1970 §16-64; Ord. No. 1072 §§23-1 — 23-2, 7-13-1956]
A. No
vehicle of any kind, motor driven or otherwise, shall pass along or
upon any highway, street or driveway, in or adjoining property used
as a public or private school, or in or adjoining a school zone or
playground zone at a speed greater than that which the operator or
driver of the vehicle can have the vehicle under perfect and absolute
control, and in no event shall any vehicle be driven or operated at
such places, as above indicated, and as hereinafter designated, at
a speed exceeding fifteen (15) miles per hour at such times as the
Chief of Police shall direct by means of signs.
B. The
Chief of Police shall designate the school or playground zones and
shall place signs advising that the maximum speed limit in such zones
is at the rate of fifteen (15) miles an hour. The Chief of Police
may from time to time change the limit of such school or playground
zones as the changing needs of safety and traffic may make such change
advisable, in the discretion of the Chief of Police. The Chief of
Police shall cause such signs to be of the swivel or turn type and
shall cause such signs to be turned toward the oncoming traffic at
such times as, in the opinion of the Chief of Police, is necessary
to protect the school children using the schoolhouse and school playgrounds.
Such signs shall contain the words "School and/or Playground Zone"
and "Speed Limit 15 Miles per Hour" and such other words as shall
be deemed advisable or practicable by the Chief of Police. The fifteen
(15) mile an hour speed limit shall only be in effect in school or
playground zones at such times as the speed limit is turned so as
to face the oncoming traffic. At such times the vehicles shall not
be operated at a speed greater than that at which the operator or
driver of the vehicle shall have the vehicle under perfect and absolute
control and in no event at a speed in excess of the normal speed limit
in effect on such street at such time.