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 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 title or as may be determined by ordinance or resolution of the
council.
(Ord. 52 § 4, 1975)
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.
(Ord. 52 § 4.1, 1975)
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 courts
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 issued by CALTRANS.
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 any such intersection.
(Ord. 52 § 4.3, 1975)
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.
(Ord. 52 § 4.4, 1975)
The city 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 shall determine in any
particular case that the conditions which warranted or required the
installation no longer exist or obtain.
(Ord. 52 § 4.6, 1975)
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.
(Ord. 52 § 4.7, 1975)
No person, unless authorized by the 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 provisions of any resolution or ordinance of the
city pertaining thereto.
(Ord. 52 § 4.8, 1975)
