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 article.
B.
Whenever
the Vehicle Code of the state 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 be placed
and maintained such additional traffic-control devices as he may deem
necessary or proper to regulate traffic or to guide or warn traffic,
but he 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 chapter or as may be determined by ordinance or resolution of
the city council.
(Ord. 91-16 § 2 (12.08.101))
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 prevent or 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 determinations
therefrom shall be made in accordance with those traffic engineering
and safety standards and instructions set forth in the California
Maintenance Manual and Planning Manual—Traffic, issued by the
division of highways of the state Department of Public Works.
C.
Whenever
the city traffic engineer installs and maintains an official traffic
signal at any intersection, he shall likewise erect and maintain at
such intersection street name signs clearly visible to traffic approaching
from all directions unless such street name signs have previously
been placed and are maintained at such intersection.
(Ord. 91-16 § 2 (12.08.104))
The city traffic engineer is authorized to remove, relocate
or discontinue the operation of any trafficcontrol device not specifically
required by Vehicle Code or this chapter whenever he shall determine
in any particular case that the conditions which warranted or required
the installation no longer exist.
(Ord. 91-16 § 2 (12.08.105))
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 chapter.
(Ord. 91-16 § 2 (12.08.106))
No person, unless authorized by this city, shall paint any street
or curb surface; provided, however, that this section shall not apply
to the painting of numbers on a curb surface by any person who has
complied with the provision of any resolution or ordinance of this
city pertaining thereto.
(Ord. 91-16 § 2 (12.08.107))
The city traffic engineer is authorized to mark center lines
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.
(Ord. 91-16 § 2 (12.08.108))
The city traffic engineer is authorized to place and maintain
distinctive roadway markings as described in the Vehicle Code of the
state 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
markings or signs and markings shall have the same effect as similar
markings placed by the state Department of Public Works pursuant to
provisions of the state Vehicle Code.
(Ord. 91-16 § 2 (12.08.109))
The operator of any vehicle shall obey the instructions of any
official traffic-control device placed in accordance with this division
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.
(Ord. 91-16 § 2 (12.08.103))
No provision of the Vehicle Code of the state or of this chapter
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.
(Ord. 91-16 § 2 (12.08.102))
Whenever any resolution of this city designates and describes
any street or portion thereof as a through street, or any intersection
at which vehicles are required to stop at one or more entrances thereto,
the city traffic engineer shall erect and maintain stop signs as follows:
A stop sign shall be erected on each and every street intersecting
such through street or portion thereof so designated and at those
entrances or other intersections where a stop is required. Every such
sign shall conform with and shall be placed as provided in Section
21355 of the Vehicle Code.
(Ord. 91-16 § 2 (12.08.301))
The city traffic engineer is authorized to determine those intersections
at which drivers of vehicles shall yield the right-of-way to opposing
traffic. The city traffic engineer shall place and maintain "YIELD
RIGHT-OF-WAY" signs at the entrance of streets previously determined
by him, and the signs shall comply with the specifications of the
Vehicle Code of the state.
(Ord. 91-16 § 2 (12.08.351))
Whenever any resolution of this city designates any one-way
street or alley, the city traffic engineer shall place and maintain
signs giving notice thereof, and no such regulations shall be effective
unless such signs are in place. Signs indicating the direction of
lawful traffic movement shall be placed at every intersection where
movement of traffic in the opposite direction is prohibited.
(Ord. 91-16 § 2 (12.08.381))
A.
The
city traffic engineer is authorized to establish and maintain crosswalks
and to designate them by appropriate devices or painted signs upon
the surface of the roadway.
B.
The
city traffic engineer may place signs at or adjacent to an intersection
in respect to any crosswalk directing that pedestrians shall not cross
except in the crosswalk so indicated.
(Ord. 91-16 § 2 (12.08.501))
