Authority to Install Traffic Control Devices.
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 under the traffic ordinances
of this city to make effective the provisions of said ordinances.
(Prior code § 6131)
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.
(Prior code § 6131.1)
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 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
the traffic ordinances of this city or as may be determined by ordinance
or resolution of the legislative body of this city.
(Prior code § 6131.2)
No provision of the Vehicle Code or of this title for which
signs are required shall be enforced against an alleged violation
unless appropriate signs are in place and sufficiently legible to
be seen by an ordinarily observant person, giving notice of such provisions
of the traffic laws. Such signs shall comply with the requirements
of the Vehicle Code of the state.
(Prior code § 6132)
The driver of a vehicle shall obey the instructions of any official
traffic control device applicable thereto placed in accordance with
the traffic ordinances of this city unless otherwise directed by a
police officer or other city personnel authorized by the provisions
of this chapter, subject to the exceptions granted the driver of an
authorized emergency vehicle when responding to emergency calls.
(Prior code § 6133)
The city traffic engineer shall recommend the locations where
official traffic signals are required by resorting to field observations,
traffic counts and other traffic information that may be pertinent,
and his determinations therefrom shall be made in accordance with
generally accepted traffic engineering and safety standards.
(Prior code § 6134)
The city traffic engineer shall, upon direction of the city
council, by resolution 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.
(Prior code § 6134.1)
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 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 § 6134.2)
The city traffic engineer is authorized to mark centerlines
and lane lines upon the surface of the roadway to indicate the course
to be travelled 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 roadway, excepting state highways within
the city.
(Prior code § 6135)
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 sign and markings. Such marking or
signs and marking shall have the same effect as similar markings placed
by the State Department of Public Works pursuant to the provisions
of the Vehicle Code.
(Prior code § 6136)
The city traffic engineer is authorized to establish safety
zones at such places as the city traffic engineer may deem necessary
for the protection of pedestrians.
(Prior code § 6136.1)
The city traffic engineer is authorized to remove, relocate
or discontinue the operation of any traffic control not specifically
required by state law or this ordinance whenever he determines in
any particular case that the conditions which warranted or required
the installation no longer exist.
(Prior code § 6137)
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 § 6138)
