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 of Brownfield shall conform with the "Texas Manual on Uniform Traffic Control Devices for Streets and Highways," Volumes I and II (hereafter called the manual). Article 6701d, Vernon's Civil Statutes states: "All signs, signals and markings erected or used by the City of Brownfield 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.
(1965 Code of Ordinances, Chapter 20, Article V, Section 20-129)
(a) 
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) 
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) 
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) 
Every such prohibited sign, signal or marking is hereby declared to be a public nuisance, and the chief of police is hereby empowered to remove the same or cause it to be moved without notice.
(1965 Code of Ordinances, Chapter 20, Article V, Section 20-132)
(a) 
The city council of the City of Brownfield shall by ordinance direct that the chief of police shall have the duty of erecting or installing upon, over, along or beside any highway, street or alley; signs, signals and markings, or cause the same to be erected, installed or placed in accordance with this article and consistent with the manual. Such traffic-control devices shall be installed immediately or as soon as such specific device, sign or signal can be produced.
(b) 
Whenever the chief of police 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 under his direction in obedience to this article, the manual or another ordinance directing the erection of such device, signal or sign shall thereafter file a report with the city secretary in writing and signed officially by the chief of police, stating the type of traffic-control device, sign or signal, and when and where the same was erected or installed. The city secretary shall file and maintain such report of the chief of police among the official papers of the office of the city secretary.
(1965 Code of Ordinances, Chapter 20, Article V, Section 20-134)