The Village Traffic Engineer shall
place and maintain traffic control signs, signals and devices when
and as required under the traffic ordinances of the Village 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 Village 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 Trustees of the Village. All signs or signals
required hereunder for a particular purpose shall so far as practicable
be uniform as to type and location throughout the Village. 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.
The Village 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.