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.
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.
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 only with
caution.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
