Local rule and regulations, which the city council, as a local authority, has the power and jurisdiction to adopt, for the regulation of control of vehicles while using the streets and public highway of the city, and for the regulation and control of street and highway traffic in the city, under the provisions of the Vehicle Code of the state, may hereafter be made, and the city council may exercise such powers, by means of resolutions passed and adopted from time to time by the city council.
(Prior code § 15-1)