(a)
The city council or designee is charged with the responsibility of
maintenance of all traffic controls, devices and regulations and,
in addition thereto, the city council or designee is hereby authorized:
(1)
To determine and establish school zones, no parking zones, regulatory
devices, signs and signals, save and except traffic signal lights
and speed limit zones, and all other traffic-control devices as shall
be deemed necessary for the public safety and welfare or to regulate,
warn or guide traffic for the safe and expeditious flow thereof.
(2)
To place and maintain traffic-control signs, signals (save and except
traffic signal lights and speed limit zones) and devices when and
as required under the provisions contained in this article to make
effective the provisions of this article.
(b)
The city council or designee is hereby authorized to make and enforce
temporary or experimental devices to cover emergency or special conditions.
No such temporary or experimental devices shall remain in effect more
than ninety (90) days. If the city council or designee determines
there is a necessity for the erection, removal or change of any traffic-control
device or regulation, such determination shall be based upon a traffic
and engineering survey, conducted upon the following standards:
(1)
The public welfare, including safety and traffic factors to insure
the safe and expeditious flow of traffic, shall be considered.
(2)
The development of the property surrounding the proposed area shall
be analyzed.
(3)
The requirement of vehicular traffic flow in the proposed area shall
be determined.
(4)
The amount of pedestrian and vehicular traffic in the proposed area
shall be considered.
(5)
If at any time the council finds that these guidelines where not
followed and/or specified warrants were not sufficiently met, it may
by resolution remove any so established traffic regulatory sign or
signs.
(Ordinance 751 adopted 2/20/75)
The public record, which shall be called the traffic register,
shall contain a record of every specific location in the city where
any traffic-control device, marking or special regulation is made
applicable. The city council finds that the conditions prerequisite
to the establishment of all special traffic regulations prescribed
in this chapter, and the installation of all traffic-control devices,
signs, signals and markings evidenced by the record thereof in the
traffic register, exist, and such findings are hereby confirmed and
such regulations shall continue in operation until modified as provided
in this code. The traffic register shall be continuously maintained
by the police department as provided in this chapter, and all persons
shall be charged with notice of the contents of the same.
(Ordinance 751 adopted 2/20/75)
