Those streets and parts of streets
described by ordinances of the City are declared to be through streets
for the purposes of this Chapter.
Whenever any ordinance of the City
designates and describes a through street, it shall be the duty of
the City Traffic Engineer 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 City Traffic Engineer upon the basis of an engineering and
traffic study.
The City Traffic Engineer 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.