The City Council may designate through highways and erect stop
signs or yield signs at specified entrances thereto, or may designate
any intersection as a stop intersection or as a yield intersection
and erect stop signs or yield signs at one or more entrances to such
intersection.
Where stop signs or flashing red signals are in place at an
intersection or flashing red signals are in place at a plainly marked
crosswalk between intersections, drivers of vehicles shall stop before
entering the nearest crosswalk and pedestrians within or entering
the crosswalk at either edge of the roadway shall have the right-of-way
over vehicles so stopped. Drivers of vehicles having so yielded the
right-of-way to pedestrians entering or within the nearest crosswalk
at an intersection shall also yield the right-of-way to pedestrians
within any other crosswalk at the intersection.
[Amended at time of adoption of Code (see Ch. 1, General
Provisions, Art. I)]
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 at a clearly marked stop line,
but, if none, before entering the crosswalk on the near side of the
intersection, or, if none, then at the point nearest the intersecting
roadway where the driver has a view of approaching traffic on the
intersecting roadway before entering the intersection. After having
stopped, the driver shall yield the right-of-way to any vehicle which
has entered the intersection from another roadway or which is approaching
so closely on the roadway as to constitute an immediate hazard during
the time when the driver is moving across or within the intersection,
but said driver, having so yielded, may proceed at such time as a
safe interval occurs.
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, if required for safety to stop, shall stop at a clearly marked
stop line, but if none, before entering the crosswalk on the near
side of the intersection, or if none, then at the point nearest the
intersecting roadway where the driver has a view of approaching traffic
on the intersecting roadway. After slowing or stopping, the driver
shall yield the right-of-way to any vehicle in the intersection or
approaching on another roadway so closely as to constitute an immediate
hazard during the time such driver is moving across or within the
intersection.
If a driver is involved in a collision at an intersection or
interferes with the movement of other vehicles after driving past
a yield right-of-way sign, such collision or interference shall be
deemed prima facie evidence of the driver's failure to yield the right-of-way.
[Amended at time of adoption of Code (see Ch. 1, General
Provisions, Art. I)]
The driver of a vehicle emerging from an alley, driveway, building,
or private road within an urban area shall stop such vehicle immediately
prior to driving into the sidewalk area extending across such alley,
building entrance, road or driveway, or in the event there is no sidewalk
area, shall stop at the point nearest the street to be entered where
the driver has a view of approaching traffic thereon, 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 such roadway.
