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.
(RSMo. § 300.130)
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. (RSMo. § 300.135)
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. (RSMo. § 300.140)
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.
(RSMo. § 300.145)
A.
Whenever official traffic control devices are placed in position
approximately conforming to the requirements of this Title, such devices
shall be presumed to have been so placed by the official act or direction
of lawful authority, unless the contrary shall be established by competent
evidence.
B.
Any official traffic control device placed pursuant to the provisions
of this Title and purporting to conform to the lawful requirements
pertaining to such devices shall be presumed to comply with the requirements
of this Title, unless the contrary shall be established by competent
evidence. (RSMo. § 300.150)
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. (RSMo. § 300.175)
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. (RSMo. § 300.180)
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.
(RSMo. § 300.185)
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. (RSMo. § 300.190)
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.
(RSMo. § 300.195)
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.
(RSMo. § 300.200)
