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.
(Ordinance 753, sec. 1, adopted 11/13/79; Ordinance 1248, sec. 1, adopted 2/13/18; 1972
Code, sec. 23-5(a); Ordinance adopting 2023 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 chapter, 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 chapter
for which official traffic-control devices are required shall be enforced
against an alleged violation, if an official device is not in proper
position and sufficiently legible to be seen by an observant person.
(Ordinance 753, sec. 1, adopted 11/13/79; Ordinance 1248, sec. 1, adopted 2/13/18; 1972
Code, sec. 23-5(b))
An inventory of all signs installed shall be maintained by the
city. The inventory shall show the location of each sign, date of
installation, and other pertinent information applicable to each sign.
Future installations, removals, or maintenance of the traffic-control
devices shall be entered in the inventory as they occur.
(Ordinance 753, sec. 1, adopted 11/13/79; Ordinance 1248, sec. 1, adopted 2/13/18; 1972
Code, sec. 23-5(c))
(a)
No person shall place, maintain or display upon or in view of any
street any unauthorized sign, 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 an official traffic-control device or any railroad
sign or signal.
(b)
No person shall place or maintain, nor shall any public authority
permit, upon any street, any traffic sign or signal bearing thereon
any commercial advertising.
(c)
No person shall place or maintain a flashing light or flashing electric
sign of any kind or color within one thousand (1,000) feet of any
intersection unless a permit is granted by the state department of
transportation and chief of police for such flashing light or electric
sign.
(d)
This section shall not be deemed to prohibit the erection upon private
property adjacent to a street of signs giving useful directional information
and of a type that cannot be mistaken for official signs.
(e)
In addition to being a misdemeanor, every such prohibited sign, signal,
light or marking is hereby declared to be a public nuisance.
(Ordinance 753, sec. 1, adopted 11/13/79; 1972 Code, sec. 23-66)
The city hereby designates certain streets as through. Those
streets and parts of streets described in Schedule I, attached and
made a part hereof, are hereby declared to be through streets for
the purposes of this section. Whenever any ordinance modification
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 (2) such
through streets, or at the intersection of a through street and 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.
(Ordinance 753, sec. 1, adopted 11/13/79; Ordinance 1248, sec. 1, adopted 2/13/18; 1972
Code, sec. 23-5(d))
The city hereby designates certain intersections to be controlled
by all-way stop signs. Those intersections described in Schedule II,
attached and made a part hereof, are hereby declared to be all-way
stop intersections for the purposes of this section. State warrants
should be met.
(Ordinance 753, sec. 1, adopted 11/13/79; Ordinance 1248, sec. 1, adopted 2/13/18; 1972
Code, sec. 23-5(e); Ordinance 1288 adopted 6/22/21)
The city hereby designates certain intersections where a particular
hazard exists to be controlled by stop or yield signs.
(1)
Those intersections described in Schedule III, attached and made
a part hereof, are declared to be controlled by stop signs for the
purposes of this section.
(2)
Those intersections described in Schedule IV, attached and made a
part hereof, are declared to be controlled by yield signs for the
purposes of this section.
(Ordinance 753, sec. 1, adopted 11/13/79; Ordinance 1248, sec. 1, adopted 2/13/18; 1972
Code, sec. 23-5(f))
The city hereby designates school zones on certain streets.
A maximum speed limit as shown in Schedule V during the days [when
school is in session] within the zone is established. Those streets
and zone boundaries described in Schedule V are declared to be school
zones for the purposes of this section.
(Ordinance 753, sec. 1, adopted 11/13/79; Ordinance 1248, sec. 1, adopted 2/13/18; 1972
Code, sec. 23-5(g))
The city hereby designates certain intersections to be controlled
by traffic signal lights. Those intersections described in Schedule
VI, attached and made a part hereof, are hereby designated as signalized
intersections for the purposes of this section.
(Ordinance 753, sec. 1, adopted 11/13/79; Ordinance 1248, sec. 1, adopted 2/13/18; 1972
Code, sec. 23-5(h))
The city manager is hereby authorized to designate and maintain,
by appropriate devices, marks, or lines upon the surface of the roadway,
crosswalks at intersections where in his opinion there is particular
danger to pedestrians crossing the roadway, and at such other places
as he may deem necessary.
(Ordinance 753, sec. 1, adopted 11/13/79; 1972 Code, sec. 23-15)
The city manager is hereby authorized to mark traffic lanes
upon the roadway of any street or highway where a regular alignment
of traffic is necessary.
(Ordinance 753, sec. 1, adopted 11/13/79; 1972 Code, sec. 23-16)
