[1]
Editor's Note: For State law as to traffic signs, signals
and markings, see Veh. C.A., §§465 to 478. For requirement
that signs conform to uniform standards, see Veh. C.A., §465.9.
[Ord. #58-016, Art.5, § 1; 1958 Code § 20.26]
a.
The City Traffic Engineer shall have the power and duty to place
and maintain, or cause to be placed and maintained, official traffic-control
devices when and as required under this chapter and other traffic
ordinances of the City to make effective the provisions of this chapter
and such ordinances.
b.
Whenever the Vehicle Code of the State requires for the effectiveness
of any provision thereof that traffic-control devices be installed
to give notice to the public of the application of such law, the City
Traffic Engineer is hereby authorized to install, or cause to be installed,
the necessary devices, subject to any limitations or restrictions
set forth in the law applicable thereto.
c.
The City Traffic Engineer may also place and maintain or cause to
be placed and maintained such additional traffic-control devices as
he may deem necessary to regulate traffic or to guide or warn traffic,
but he shall make such determination only upon the basis of traffic
engineering principles and traffic investigations and in accordance
with such standards, limitations and rules as may be set forth in
this chapter or other traffic ordinances of the City or as may be
determined by ordinance or resolution of the legislative body of the
City.
[1]
Editor's Note: For State law authorizing local authorities
to regulate traffic by means of signaling devices, see Veh. C.A.,
§459.
[Ord. #58-016, Art. 5, § 2; 1958 Code § 20.27]
No provision of the Vehicle Code of the State or of this chapter
for which signs are required shall be enforced against an alleged
violator unless appropriate signs are in place and sufficiently legible
to be seen by an ordinarily observant person, giving notice of such
provisions of the traffic laws.
[Ord. #58-016, Art. 5, § 3; 1958 Code § 20.28]
The driver of any vehicle shall obey the instructions of any
official traffic-control device applicable thereto placed in accordance
with this chapter or other traffic ordinances of the City, unless
otherwise directed by a Police Officer, subject to the exceptions
granted the driver of an authorized emergency vehicle when responding
to emergency calls.
[1]
Editor's Note: For State law as to obedience to traffic signals,
see Veh. C.A., §475.
[Ord. #58-016, Art. 5, § 4; 1958 Code § 20.29]
a.
The City Traffic Engineer is hereby directed to install and maintain
official traffic signals at those intersections and other places where
traffic conditions are such as to require that the flow of traffic
be alternately interrupted and released in order to prevent or relieve
traffic congestion or to protect life or property from exceptional
hazard.
b.
The City Traffic Engineer shall ascertain and determine the locations
where such signals are required by resort to field observation, traffic
counts and other traffic information as may be pertinent and his determinations
therefrom shall be made in accordance with those traffic engineering
and safety standards and instructions set forth in the Planning Manual
of Instructions, Part 8, "Traffic," issued by the Division of Highways
of the State Department of Public Works.
c.
Whenever the City Traffic Engineer installs and maintains an official
traffic signal at any intersection, he shall likewise erect and maintain
at such intersection street name signs visible to the principal flow
of traffic, unless such street name signs have previously been placed
and are maintained at any such intersection.
[Ord. #58-016, Art. 5, § 5; 1958 Code § 20.30]
The City Traffic Engineer is hereby authorized to mark center
lines and lane lines upon the surface of the roadway to indicate the
course to be traveled by vehicles and may place signs temporarily
designating lanes to be used by traffic moving in a particular direction,
regardless of the center line of the highway.
[Ord. #58-016, Art. 5, § 6; 1958 Code § 20.31]
The City Traffic Engineer is authorized to place and maintain
distinctive roadway markings as described in the Vehicle Code of the
State on those streets or parts of streets where the volume of traffic
or the vertical or other curvature of the roadway renders it hazardous
to drive on the left side of such marking or signs and markings. Such
marking or signs and markings shall have the same effect as similar
markings placed by the State Department of Public Works pursuant to
provisions of the Vehicle Code of the State.
[1]
Editor's Note: For State law as to power of local authorities
to place distinctive roadway markings, see Veh. C.A., §525.2.
[Ord. #58-016, Art. 5, § 7; 1958 Code § 20.32]
The City Traffic Engineer is hereby authorized to remove, relocate
or discontinue the operation of any traffic-control device not specifically
required by State law or this chapter, whenever he shall determine
in any particular case that the conditions which warranted or required
the installation no longer exist or obtain.
[Ord. #58-016, Art. 5, § 8; 1958 Code § 20.33]
The City Traffic Engineer shall determine the hours and days
during which any traffic-control device shall be in operation or be
in effect, except in those cases where such hours or days are specified
in this chapter.
[Ord. #58-016, Art. 5, § 9; 1958 Code § 20.34]
No person shall operate a vehicle contrary to the directions
or provisions of any barrier or sign erected:
