[CC 1990 App. C § 300.130; Ord.
No. 2896, § 1, 6-6-2016]
A. The City Traffic Engineer shall place and maintain traffic control
signs, signals, and devices when and as required under the Model Traffic
Ordinance 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 Model Traffic
Ordinance of the City or under law or the guide or warn traffic.
B. In the case of public emergency, road construction, or special conditions,
the City Traffic Engineer shall install temporary regulatory traffic
control signs and devices. These temporary signs and devices shall
be obeyed in the same manner as permanent signs and devices installed
by the Model Traffic Ordinance. Temporary traffic control signs and
devices installed by the Missouri Department of Transportation or
the St. Louis County Department of Transportation shall also be obeyed
in the same manner as permanent signs and devices installed by this
Section.
[CC 1990 App. C § 300.135]
All traffic control signs, signals and devices shall conform
to the manual for uniform traffic control devices in Title 23, Code
of Federal Regulations, or resolution adopted by the legislative body
of the City. All signs or signals required hereunder for a particular
purpose shall go 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 Section shall be official
traffic control devices.
[CC 1990 App. C § 300.140]
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 Section, unless otherwise directed by
a Traffic or Police Officer, subject to the exceptions granted the
driver of an authorized emergency vehicle in this Chapter.
[CC 1990 App. C § 300.145]
No provision of this Section 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.
[CC 1990 App. C § 300.150]
A. Whenever official traffic control devices are placed in position
approximately conforming to the requirements of this Section, 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 Section and purporting to conform to the lawful requirements
pertaining to such devices shall be presumed to comply with the requirements
pertaining to such devices and shall be presumed to comply with the
requirements of this Section, unless the contrary shall be established
by competent evidence.
[CC 1990 § 18-25; Ord. No. 162 §§ 1 — 2, 8-15-1988]
A. The driver of any vehicle shall obey the instructions of any official
traffic control device applicable to the driver placed in accordance
with the provisions of City ordinances, unless otherwise directed
by a Law Enforcement Officer. This Section is subject to the exceptions
granted the driver of any authorized emergency vehicle.
B. When a traffic signal is not operating due to mechanical failure
or other reasons, all traffic shall come to a complete stop before
proceeding through the intersection at which the non-operating signal
is stationed.
[CC 1990 App. C § 300.165]
A. Whenever an illuminated flashing red or yellow signal is used in
a traffic sign or signal, it shall require obedience by vehicular
traffic as follows:
1.
Flashing Red (Stop Signal). When a red lens is illuminated with
rapid intermittent flashes, drivers of vehicles shall stop before
entering the nearest crosswalk at an intersection or at a limit line
when marked or, if none, then before entering the intersection and
the right to proceed shall be subject to the rules applicable after
making a stop at a stop sign.
2.
Flashing Yellow (Caution Signal). When a yellow lens is illuminated
with rapid intermittent flashes, drivers of vehicles may proceed through
the intersection or past such signal only with caution.
B. This Section shall not apply at railroad grade crossings. Conduct of drivers of vehicles approaching railroad grade crossings shall be governed by the rules as set forth in Section
335.090.
[CC 1990 App. C § 300.170]
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.
[CC 1990 App. C § 300.175]
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 railroad sign or signal 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 or any railroad
sign or signal.
[CC 1990 App. C § 300.180]
No person shall, without lawful authority, attempt to or in
fact alter, injure, knock down or remove any official traffic control
device or any railroad sign or signal or any inscription, shield or
insignia thereon or any other part thereof.
[CC 1990 App. C § 300.195]
A. The City 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.
[CC 1990 App. C § 300.200]
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.