The city manager and personnel acting under his authority are
authorized and directed to place and maintain traffic-control signs,
signals and devices when and as required and as he or they may deem
necessary to regulate traffic under city ordinances or under state
laws or to guide or warn traffic. The placing of barricades or warning
signs or devices by contractors or their workers performing work pursuant
to any federal, state, county or city contract shall be considered
as authorized hereunder.
[Ord. No. 1350-18, § 1, 5-14-2018]
The city manager and his designees, in their discretion, are
authorized to install, or provide for installation of, those traffic-control
devices which conform to the Texas Manual on Uniform Traffic Control
Devices (MUTCD), including the warrants therein established. Additionally,
multi-way stop signs may, but are not required to, be installed:
(1)
Where
traffic volumes are less than 50 percent of the warrants provided
by the MUTCD for signs;
(2)
Where
traffic volumes on both streets are approximately equal and both streets
are designated as secondary collectors; or
(3)
Where
traffic volumes on both streets are approximately equal and such streets
are adjacent to a public school.
[Ord. No. 1350-18, § 1, 5-14-2018]
The chief of police is hereby empowered to make regulations
necessary to make effective the provisions of this chapter and other
traffic ordinances and to make and enforce temporary or experimental
regulations to cover emergencies or special conditions. No such temporary
or experimental regulation shall remain in effect for more than 90
days, nor shall it be effective until approved by the city manager.
[Code 1984, ch. 10, § 2(A); Ord. No. 1350-18, § 2, 5-14-2018]
(a)
It shall
be the duty of the officers of the police department or such officers
as are assigned by the chief of police to enforce all street traffic
laws of this city and all of the state vehicle laws applicable to
street traffic in this city.
(b)
Officers
of the police department or such officers as are assigned by the chief
of police are hereby authorized to direct all traffic by voice, hand
or signal in conformance with traffic laws. In the event of fire or
other emergency, or to expedite traffic or to safeguard pedestrians,
officers of the police department may direct traffic as conditions
may require notwithstanding the provisions of the traffic laws.
[Code 1984, ch. 10, § 2(B); Ord. No. 1350-18, § 2, 5-14-2018]
Whenever the accidents of any particular location become numerous,
the chief of police shall conduct studies of such accidents and determine
remedial measures and have power to effect change.
[Code 1984, ch. 10, § 2(D)]
(a)
The
chief of police shall maintain a suitable system of filing traffic
accident reports. Such reports shall be available for the use and
information of the police department.
(b)
The
chief of police shall receive and file all accident reports made under
state law or under any ordinances of this city.
(c)
The
chief of police shall annually prepare a traffic accident report as
requested by the city manager.
[Code 1984, ch. 10, § 2(E)]
No person shall willfully fail or refuse to comply with any
lawful order or direction of a police officer of the city.
[Code 1984, ch. 10, § 3(B)]
It is 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 of the activities on those streets of pedestrians,
vehicles, motor vehicles, or animals. Proof in any prosecution for
a violation of this section, or any traffic regulation 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
such traffic control device, sign, signal, or marking was installed
by the chief of police pursuant to the authority of this section and
of the ordinance directing the installation of such device, signal
or marking.
[Code 1984, ch. 10, § 4(F)]
All traffic-control signs, signal, device and markings that
have been placed or erected and are in use for the purpose of regulating,
warning or guiding traffic are hereby affirmed, ratified and declared
to be official traffic-control devices.
[Ord. No. 1350-18, § 2, 5-14-2018]
All traffic-control devices and signals within the city shall
be presumed valid and the existence thereof shall constitute prima
facie proof of competent authority and lawful erection of such devices
and signals. In any prosecution for any violation of law, it shall
be necessary for the state to prove the installation or authority
therefor of any traffic-control device or signal.
[Ord. No. 1350-18, § 2, 5-14-2018]
Any person charged with violating a law concerning a traffic-control device or signal shall have the right to rebut the presumption created in section 82-54 and to prove that such device or signal was erected unlawfully or without lawful authority.
[Ord. No. 1350-18, § 2, 5-14-2018]
