The driver of a vehicle within an intersection intending to
turn to the left shall yield the right-of-way to any vehicle approaching
from the opposite direction which is within the intersection or so
close thereto as to constitute an immediate hazard; but said driver,
having so yielded and having given a signal when and as required by
this Chapter, may make such left turn, and the drivers of all other
vehicles approaching the intersection from said opposite direction
shall yield the right-of-way to the vehicle making the left turn.
The City Commission may designate any street or part of a street
a through street.
Whenever the City Commission so designates and describes a through
street, the city shall have placed and maintained a stop sign, or
if deemed more appropriate at any intersection a yield sign, on each
and every street intersecting such through street unless traffic at
any such intersection is controlled at all times by traffic control
signals; provided, however, that at the intersection of two such through
streets or at the intersection of a through street and a heavy traffic
street not so designated, stop signs shall be erected at the approaches
of either of said streets as may be determined by the City Commission
if deemed desirable.
The City Administrator is hereby authorized to determine and
designate intersections where particular hazard exists upon other
than through streets and to determine:
1. Whether vehicles shall stop at one or more entrances to any such
intersection, in which event it shall cause to be erected a stop sign
at every such place where a stop is required; or
2. Whether vehicles shall yield the right-of-way to vehicles on a different street at such intersection as prescribed in subsection
1 of Section
22-96, in which event it shall cause to be erected a yield sign at every place where obedience thereto is required.
Where two or more vehicles face stop, slow, warning or caution
signs or signals on two or more intersecting cross streets, and are
approaching so as to enter the intersection at the same time, where
each vehicle is required to stop, the vehicle coming from the right
shall have the right-of-way. Where each vehicle is required to slow,
the vehicle coming from the right shall have the right-of-way. Where
each vehicle is required to take caution, the vehicle coming from
the right shall have the right-of-way.
Where one vehicle is required to stop and the other to slow
or take caution, the one slowing or taking caution shall have the
right-of-way. Where one vehicle is required to slow and the other
to take caution, the one required to take caution shall have the right-of-way.
In any event, a vehicle which has already entered the intersection
shall have the right-of-way over one which has not so entered the
intersection.
The driver of a vehicle emerging from an alley, driveway or
building shall stop such vehicle immediately prior to driving onto
a sidewalk or onto the sidewalk area extending across any alleyway
or driveway, 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 the roadway.
No driver shall enter an intersection or a marked crosswalk
unless there is sufficient space on the other side of the intersection
or crosswalk to accommodate the vehicle he is operating without obstructing
the passage of other vehicles or pedestrians, notwithstanding any
traffic control signal indication to proceed.
The driver of a vehicle upon a street within the city, upon
meeting or overtaking from either direction, any school bus which
has stopped on or adjacent to any street for the purpose of receiving
or discharging any school children and other occupants and on which
the red loading signals are in operation, is to stop his vehicle before
it reaches the school bus and not proceed until the loading signals
are deactivated and then proceed past such school bus at a speed which
is reasonable and with due caution for the safety of such school children
and other occupants, and this section shall be applicable only in
the event the school bus shall bear upon the front and rear thereon
a plainly visible sign containing the words "School Bus" in letters
not less than eight inches in height.