A.
The
City Traffic Engineer shall have the power and duty to place and maintain,
or cause to be placed and maintained, official traffic-control devices
when and as required to make effective the provisions of this title.
B.
Whenever
the Vehicle Code requires for the effectiveness of any provision thereof
that traffic-control devices be installed to give notice to the public
of the application of such law, the City Traffic Engineer is authorized
to install, or cause to be installed, the necessary devices subject
to any limitations or restrictions set forth in the law applicable
thereto.
C.
The
City Traffic Engineer may also place and maintain, or cause to place
and maintain, such additional traffic-control devices as he or she
may deem necessary or proper to regulate traffic or to guide or warn
traffic, but he or she shall make such determination only upon the
basis of traffic engineering principles and traffic investigations
and in accordance with such standards, limitations, and rules as may
be set forth in this title or as may be determined by ordinance or
resolution of the City Council.
(Prior code § 3118; 1572 § 1, 1977; 2804 § 1, 2011)
No provision of the Vehicle Code or of this title for which
signs are required shall be enforced against an alleged violator unless
appropriate legible signs are in place giving notice of such provisions
of the traffic laws.
(Prior code § 3119; 2804 § 1, 2011)
The operator of any vehicle, train, or pedestrian shall obey
the instructions of any official traffic-control device placed in
accordance with this title unless otherwise directed by a police officer
or other authorized person subject to the exceptions granted the operator
of an authorized emergency vehicle when responding to emergency calls.
(Prior code § 3120; 2804 § 1, 2011)
Until removed or relocated by the City Traffic Engineer, as
provided in this title, all traffic-control devices heretofore installed
and in place as of March 1, 1961, are hereby approved.
(Prior code § 3121; 2804 § 1, 2011)
A.
The
City Traffic Engineer is directed to install and maintain official
traffic signals at those intersections and other places where traffic
conditions are such as to require that the flow of traffic be alternately
interrupted and released in order to relieve traffic congestion or
to protect life or property from exceptional hazard.
B.
The
City Traffic Engineer shall ascertain and determine the locations
where such signals are required by field investigation, traffic counts,
and other traffic information as may be pertinent, and his or her
determinations therefrom shall be made in accordance with those traffic
engineering standards and instructions set forth by the California
State Department of Transportation.
C.
Whenever
the City Traffic Engineer installs and maintains an official traffic
signal at any intersection, he or she shall likewise erect and maintain
at such intersection street name signs visible to the principal flow
of traffic unless such street name signs have previously been placed
and are maintained at any said intersection.
(Prior code § 3122; 1572 § 1, 1977; 2804 § 1, 2011)
The City Traffic Engineer is authorized to mark centerlines
and lane lines upon the surface of the roadway to indicate the course
to be traveled by vehicles and may place signs temporarily designating
lanes to be used by traffic moving in a particular direction, regardless
of the centerline of the highway.
(Prior code § 3123; 1572 § 1, 1977; 2804 § 1, 2011)
The City Traffic Engineer is authorized to place and maintain
distinctive roadway markings as described in the Vehicle Code on those
streets or parts of streets where the volume of traffic or the vertical
or other curvature of the roadway renders it hazardous to drive on
the left side of such marking or signs and markings. Such marking
or signs and markings shall have the same effect as similar markings
placed by the California Department of Transportation pursuant to
provisions of the Vehicle Code.
(Prior code § 3124; 1572 § 1, 1977; 2804 § 1, 2011)
The City Traffic Engineer shall determine the hours and days
during which any traffic-control device shall be in operation or be
in effect, except in those cases where such hours or days are specified
in this title.
(Prior code § 3125; 1572 § 1, 1977; 2804 § 1, 2011)
The City Traffic Engineer is authorized to remove, relocate,
or discontinue the operation of any traffic-control device not specifically
required by the Vehicle Code or this title whenever he or she shall
determine in any particular case that the conditions that warranted
or required the installation no longer exist or obtain.
(Prior code § 3126; 1572 § 1, 1977; 2804 § 1, 2011)
