All traffic control devices including signs, signals, and pavement or curb markings installed or used for the purpose of directing and controlling traffic within the City of Pineland shall conform with the Texas Manual on Uniform Traffic Control Devices for Streets and Highways, which is published by the State Department of Highways and Public Transportation. All signs, signals, and markings erected or used by the City of Pineland shall be uniform and be located so far as practicable according to the directions shown in the said 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.
(1981 Code of Ordinances Chapter 9, Section 2)
(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 article 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 mayor is hereby empowered to remove the same or cause it to be moved without notice.
(1981 Code of Ordinances Chapter 9, Section 2)
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 insignia thereof, or any street name sign or any part thereof.
(1981 Code of Ordinances Chapter 9, Section 2)
(a) 
The city council of the City of Pineland shall, by resolution or ordinance, direct the location of all traffic control signs, signals, and markings. The mayor shall have the duty of erecting or installing upon, over, along, or beside any highway, street, or alley, signs, signals, and markings, as are necessary to enforce such resolutions or ordinances, or cause the same to be erected, installed, or placed in accordance with this article and consistent with the manual on uniform traffic control devices. Said traffic control devices shall be installed immediately after adoption of authorizing resolution or ordinance, or as soon as such specific device, sign, or signal can be procured.
(b) 
Whenever the mayor has erected and installed any official traffic control device, sign, or signal, at any location in the City of Pineland, or has caused the same to be done under his direction, in obedience to this article and the manual on traffic control devices, he 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 of the mayor among the official papers of the office of the city secretary along with a copy of the ordinance or resolution authorizing the installation.
(1981 Code of Ordinances Chapter 9, Section 2)
It being unlawful for any person other than the mayor, acting pursuant to an ordinance or resolution of the city council, 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 article or any traffic regulation of the City of Pineland 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 mayor pursuant to the authority of this article and of the resolution or ordinance directing the installation of such device, signal, or marking.
(1981 Code of Ordinances Chapter 9, Section 2)
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, unless otherwise directed by a police officer, subject to the exceptions granted the driver of an authorized emergency vehicle as provided for in the State Uniform Act Regulating Traffic on Highways.
(1981 Code of Ordinances Chapter 9, Section 2)
All traffic control signs, signals, devices, and markings placed or erected prior to the adoption of this code and in use for the purpose of regulating, warning, or guiding 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.
(1981 Code of Ordinances Chapter 9, Section 2)