The city traffic engineer shall place and maintain, or cause
to be placed and maintained, official traffic control devices upon
streets and highways as required under the Vehicle Code or the traffic
ordinances of this city to make effective the provisions of the code
or the traffic ordinances, and may place and maintain, or cause to
be placed and maintained, such appropriate official traffic control
devices as he or she may deem necessary properly to indicate and to
carry out the provisions of the code or the traffic ordinances or
to warn and guide traffic.
(Code 1980, § 10.16.010; Ord. No. 39, § 4.0, 1978; Ord. No. 870 (Recodification), 2014)
No provision of the Vehicle Code or of this title for which
official traffic control devices are required shall be enforced against
an alleged violator unless appropriate official traffic control devices
are in place giving notice of such provisions of the traffic laws.
(Code 1980, § 10.16.020; Ord. No. 39, § 4.1, 1978)
A.
The
city traffic engineer is authorized by the city council 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 an engineering and traffic survey
and his or her determination therefrom shall be made in accordance
with those traffic engineering and safety standards.
C.
The
city traffic engineer shall erect and maintain at each signal controlled
intersection street name signs clearly visible to traffic approaching
from all directions.
D.
Priority
for traffic signals shall be established by the city council.
(Code 1980, § 10.16.030; Ord. No. 39, § 4.2, 1978)
The city traffic engineer shall have authority to establish
safety zones of such kind and character and at such places as he or
she may deem necessary for the protection of pedestrians.
(Code 1980, § 10.16.040; Ord. No. 39, § 4.3, 1978)
The city traffic engineer shall have authority to make traffic
lanes upon the roadway of any street or highway where a regular alignment
of traffic is necessary.
(Code 1980, § 10.16.050; Ord. No. 39, § 4.4, 1978)
The city traffic engineer is authorized by the city council
to place and maintain upon highways distinctive roadway markings as
described in the Vehicle Code.
(Code 1980, § 10.16.060; Ord. No. 39, § 4.5, 1978)
The city traffic engineer is authorized by the city council
to remove, relocate or discontinue the operation of any traffic control
device not specifically required by the Vehicle Code or this title
whenever he shall determine in any particular case that the conditions
which warranted or required the installation no longer exist.
(Code 1980, § 10.16.070; Ord. No. 39, § 4.6, 1978)
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.
(Code 1980, § 10.16.080; Ord. No. 39, § 4.7, 1978; Ord. No. 870 (Recodification), 2014)
No person or agency, unless authorized by the city traffic engineer,
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 provisions of any ordinance
or resolution of this city pertaining thereto.
(Code 1980, § 10.16.090; Ord. No. 39, § 4.8, 1978)
