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 manual
and specifications adopted by the state transportation commission
as provided in V.T.C.A., Transportation Code, section 544.001. All
signs, signals and markings erected or used by the city must conform
to the manual and specifications adopted under V.T.C.A., Transportation
Code, section 544.001. All existing traffic-control devices and those
erected in the future by the city being consistent with the manual
and specifications, state law and this section shall be official traffic-control
devices.
(1987 Code, ch. 9, sec. 2A; 2001
Code, sec. 12.201; Ordinance adopting 2020 Code)
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 article, unless otherwise directed by
a traffic or police officer, subject to the exceptions granted the
driver of an authorized emergency vehicle. No provision of this article
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.
(1987 Code, ch. 9, sec. 2G; 2001
Code, sec. 12.207)
The city hereby designates certain streets as through streets.
The designated through streets for the city are described in Traffic
Sign Inventory Schedule “A” on file in the office of the
city secretary. This schedule is hereby adopted and incorporated in
this code as if set out 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 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.
(1987 Code, ch. 9, sec. 2B; 2001
Code, sec. 12.202)
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 Sign Inventory Schedule “A”
on file in the office of the city secretary. This schedule is hereby
adopted and incorporated in this code as if set out 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.
(1987 Code, ch. 9, sec. 2C; 2001
Code, sec. 12.203)
The city hereby designates certain special hazard intersections
to be controlled by stop signs. The designated hazard intersections
for the city to be controlled by stop signs are described in Traffic
Sign Inventory Schedule “A” on file in the office of the
city secretary. This schedule is hereby adopted and incorporated in
this code as if set out 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.
(1987 Code, ch. 9, sec. 2D; 2001
Code, sec. 12.204)
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
Sign Inventory Schedule “A” on file in the office of the
city secretary. This schedule is hereby adopted and incorporated in
this code as if set out 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.
(1987 Code, ch. 9, sec. 2E; 2001
Code, sec. 12.205)
The city hereby designates school zones on certain streets.
A maximum speed limit of twenty (20) miles per hour during the hours
of 7:30 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. on regularly scheduled school days is established
within the designated school zones, except school zones on state highways,
where the maximum speed limit shall be thirty (30) miles per hour.
The designated school zones for the city are described in Traffic
Sign Inventory Schedule “A” on file in the office of the
city secretary. This schedule is hereby adopted and incorporated in
this code as if set out 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.
(1987 Code, ch. 9, sec. 2F; 2001
Code, sec. 12.206)
