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 to the Texas Manual of Uniform Traffic Control Devices for Streets and Highways, Volumes I and II (hereafter called the Manual). Pursuant to TEX. TRANSPORTATION CODE, § 544.002, 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/county. All existing traffic-control devices and those erected in the future by the city being consistent with the Manual, state law and this chapter shall be official traffic-control devices.
(Ordinance 123-80-6-16, passed 6-16-80)
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 chapter, 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 by § 70.01.
(Ordinance 123-80-6-16, passed 6-16-80)
Editor’s note–Former section 70.17 pertaining to the authority of the chief of police to install traffic-control devices was repealed by Ordinance 905-07-09-11 adopted September 11, 2007.
(A) 
No person shall place, maintain, or display upon or in view of any highway, street or alley any 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.
(B) 
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) 
A person may not place or maintain a flashing light or flashing electric sign within 1,000 feet of an intersection except under a permit issued by the state Transportation Commission.
(D) 
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.
(E) 
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.
Penalty--See § 70.99.
(Ordinance 123-80-6-16, passed 6-16-80)
No person shall without lawful authority attempt to or in any 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 insignia thereon, or any part thereof.
Penalty--See § 70.99.
(Ordinance 123-80-6-16, passed 6-16-80)
It being unlawful for any person other than the Chief of Police, acting pursuant to an ordinance of the city, 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, proof, in any prosecution for a violation of this subchapter or any traffic ordinance of the city 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 by the Chief of Police pursuant to the authority of this subchapter and of the ordinance directing the installation of such device, sign, signal or marking.
(Ordinance 123-80-6-16, passed 6-16-80)
The City Engineer and Director of the Street Department may determine and designate appropriate load limits for city streets to prohibit traffic that is found to be incompatible with the normal and safe movement of traffic or with the quality of the street condition and, under the direction of the Chief of Police as provided in § 70.17, must erect appropriate official traffic-control devices to notify the public of the load limits.
(Ordinance 530-99-02-23, passed 2-23-99)
No person may transport loads over State maintained streets within the City that exceed the legal limits for weight, length, height or width as established by the TEX. TRANSPORTATION CODE § 621.101 unless they possess a permit issued by the State. The City Engineer and Director of the Street Department may, with the State’s prior agreement, reduce the load limits as needed to avoid damage to Streets or ensure traffic safety. With the State’s prior agreement, the Chief of Police will erect traffic-control devices to notify the public of any load limits.
(Ordinance 530-99-02-23, passed 2-23-99)
The Police Department will enforce all load limits within the City in accordance with Chapter 621, Subchapter F of the TEXAS TRANSPORTATION CODE. Load limits may not be enforced until appropriate traffic-control devices have been erected.
(Ordinance 530-99-02-23, passed 2-23-99)
(A) 
Definitions.
(1) 
AUTHORIZED EMERGENCY TRUCKS.
Fire department trucks, police trucks, public or private ambulances for which permits have been issued by the State Board of Health, emergency trucks of municipal departments or public service corporations as are designated or authorized by the governing body of an incorporated city, private trucks operated by volunteer firemen or certified Emergency Medical Services volunteers while answering a fire alarm or responding to a medical emergency, and trucks owned by the state or by a political subdivision engaged in emergency utility repair or electric, water, or wastewater services.
(2) 
LIGHT TRUCK.
Any truck with a manufacturer’s rated carrying capacity of two thousand (2,000) pounds or less, including trucks commonly known as pickup trucks, panel delivery trucks, and carryall trucks.
(3) 
PROOF OF ROUTE.
A written verification of pick-ups, deliveries, or destinations, which may include a log book, delivery slip, shipping order, bill, or any other document which identifies and specifies the date, address, and name of the person requesting or directing the pick-up or delivery and the destination of the pick up or delivery.
(4) 
THROUGH TRUCK.
Trucks having no destination, pick-up, or delivery point within the corporate limits of the city.
(5) 
TRUCK.
A motor vehicle designed, used, or maintained primarily for the transportation of property, including “truck tractors,” “road tractors,” “trailers,” “semitrailers,” “pole trailers,” and “special mobile equipment,” as those terms are defined in Tex. Transp. Code Ann. §541.201 (Vernon 1999).
Terms not defined herein shall be construed in accordance with customary usage.
(B) 
Through Truck Traffic.
(1) 
Regulations.
(a) 
All public streets except North Railroad Avenue; Pflugerville Parkway; Wilke Lane; 10th Street; Heatherwilde Boulevard; Dessau Road; Immanuel Road; Pecan Street (FM 1825); FM 685; Weiss Lane; Wells Branch Parkway; Grand Avenue Parkway/AW Grimes; Kelly Lane; Rowe Lane; Cele Road; SH 45 and SH 130 within the corporate limits of the city are closed to through-truck traffic.
(b) 
The prohibition in this section does not apply to authorized emergency trucks, light trucks, or trucks with drivers that are able to produce proof of route within the corporate limits of the city.
(Ordinance 611-00-12-12, passed 12-12-00; Ordinance 1192-14-10-14, passed 10-14-14)