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State law reference—Authority to place and maintain traffic control devices, V.T.C.A., Transportation Code, sec. 542.202(1); destruction of traffic control devices, V.T.C.A., Transportation Code, sec. 544.005; Cross reference—Chapter 16, article 16.03, section 16.03.009, “Traffic control devices.”
All traffic control devices including signs, signals, and markings (pavement and/or curb) installed or used for the purpose of directing and controlling traffic within the city shall conform with the Texas Manual on Uniform Traffic Control Devices for Streets and Highways, (hereafter called the manual), Article 6701d, Vernon’s Civil Statutes states. All signs, signals, and markings erected or used by the city shall be uniform and be located so far as practicable according to the directions shown in the manual throughout the city. All existing traffic control devices and those erected in the future by the city being consistent with the manual, state law, and this article shall be official traffic control devices.
(1998 Code, sec. 10.201)
The driver of any vehicle, motor vehicle, or animal shall obey the instructions of any official traffic control device, sign, signal, or marking applicable thereto placed in accordance with this article, the manual and any ordinance directing that such traffic control device, sign or signal shall be installed or erected unless otherwise directed by a law enforcement officer, subject to the exceptions granted the driver of an authorized emergency vehicle permitted under state law.
(1998 Code, sec. 10.202)
(a) 
Unauthorized signs, signals, and markings prohibited.
No person shall place, maintain, or display upon or in view of any highway, street, or alley any unauthorized signs, 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 control device or any railroad sign or signal.
(b) 
Commercial advertising prohibited.
No person shall place or maintain nor shall any public authority permit upon any highway, street, or alley any traffic sign or signal bearing thereon any commercial advertising.
(c) 
Directional information signs.
This section shall not be deemed to prohibit the erection upon private property adjacent to highways, streets, or alleys of signs giving useful directional information and of a type that cannot be mistaken for official signs.
(d) 
Prohibited signs declared a public nuisance.
Every such prohibited sign, signal or marking is hereby declared to be a public nuisance, and the chief of police or other authority is hereby empowered to remove the same or cause it to be moved without notice.
(1998 Code, sec. 10.203)
No person shall without lawful authority, attempt to or in fact alter, deface, injure, knock down or remove any official traffic control device, sign, or signal, or any railroad sign or signal or any inscription, shield, or sign thereon, or any part thereof.
(1998 Code, sec. 10.204)
(a) 
City council to authorize by ordinance.
The City Council hereby authorizes the director of public works to install upon, over, along or beside any highway, street or alley, all necessary signs, signals and markings based on studies by the director of planning in conformance with the Texas Manual on Uniform Traffic Control Devices. Such new traffic control devices and all traffic control devices placed or erected prior to the adoption of this article are hereby affirmed, ratified and declared to be official traffic control devices provided such traffic control devices are not inconsistent with the provisions of this article or state law.
(b) 
Report to be filed with City Secretary.
Whenever the city has erected and installed any official traffic control device, signal, or sign at any location in the city or has caused the same to be done in obedience to this article, the manual or another ordinance directing the erection of such device, signal or sign the installer shall thereafter file a report with the City Secretary in writing stating the type of traffic control device, sign, or signal, and when and where the same was erected and installed. The City Secretary shall file and maintain such report among the official papers of the office of the City Secretary.
(1998 Code, sec. 10.205)
It being unlawful to install or cause to be installed any signal, sign, or device purporting to direct the use of the streets or the activities on those streets of pedestrians, vehicles, motor vehicles, or animals, evidence that any traffic control device, sign, signal, or marking was actually in place on any street shall constitute prima facie evidence that the same was installed pursuant to the authority of this article and of the ordinance directing the installation of such device, signal, or marking.
(1998 Code, sec. 10.206)
All traffic control signs, signals, devices and markings placed or erected prior to the adoption of this code of ordinances and in use for the purpose of regulating, warning or guiding vehicles or pedestrian traffic are hereby affirmed, ratified and declared to be official traffic control devices, provided such traffic control devices are not inconsistent with the provisions of this article or state law.
(1998 Code, sec. 10.207)
The city hereby designates certain streets as through streets. The designated through streets for the city are described in Traffic Control Device Inventory - Schedule I on file in the office of the City Secretary. This schedule is hereby adopted and incorporated in this code as if set at length herein. The schedule may be amended from time to time by ordinance of the City Council. A current schedule shall be maintained by the City Secretary at all times. Whenever any ordinance of this city designates and describes a through street, it shall be the duty of the city to place and maintain a stop sign, or on the basis of an engineering and traffic investigation at any intersection, a yield sign, on each and every street intersecting such through street unless traffic at any such street is controlled at all times by traffic control signals; provided, however, that at the intersection of two (2) such through streets, or at the intersection of a through street and a heavily traveled street not so designated, stop signs shall be erected at the approaches of either, or both of said streets as may be determined by the city upon the basis of an engineering and traffic study.
(1998 Code, sec. 10.208)
The city hereby designates certain intersections to be controlled by four-way stop signs. The designated four-way stop intersections for the city are described in Traffic Control Device Inventory Schedule II on file in the office of the City Secretary. This schedule is hereby adopted and incorporated in this code as if set at length herein. The schedule may be amended from time to time by ordinance of the City Council. A current schedule shall be maintained by the City Secretary at all times.
(1998 Code, sec. 10.209)
The city hereby designates certain special hazard intersections to be controlled by stop signs. The designated special hazard intersections for the city to be controlled by stop signs are described in Traffic Control Device Inventory - Schedule III on file in the office of the City Secretary. This schedule is hereby adopted and incorporated in this code as if set at length herein. The schedule may be amended from time to time by ordinance of the City Council. A current schedule shall be maintained by the City Secretary at all times.
(1998 Code, sec. 10.210)
The city hereby designates certain special hazard intersections to be controlled by yield signs. The designated special hazard intersections for the city to be controlled by yield signs are described in Traffic Control Device Inventory - Schedule IV on file in the office of the City Secretary. This schedule is hereby adopted and incorporated in this code as if set at length herein. The schedule may be amended from time to time by ordinance of the City Council. A current schedule shall be maintained by the City Secretary at all times.
(1998 Code, sec. 10.211)
(a) 
The city hereby designates school zones on certain streets. The designated school zones for the city are described in Traffic Control Device Inventory-Schedule V on file in the office of the City Secretary. This schedule is hereby adopted and incorporated in this code as if set at length herein. The schedule may be amended from time to time by ordinance of the City Council. A current schedule shall be maintained by the City Secretary at all times.
(b) 
During the times posted or indicated by flashing lights, the maximum speed limit of twenty (20) miles per hour is established within the designated school zones, except school zones established on state highways. The maximum speed limit for school zones on state highways shall be as authorized by the Texas Department of Transportation.
(Ordinance CO-01-09-13-8.B. adopted 9/13/01)