No provision of the
Vehicle Code or this title for which signs
are required shall be enforced against an alleged violator unless
appropriate signs are sufficiently legible to give notice and located
so as to be seen by an ordinarily observant person.
(Ord. 1109 § 2, 1992)
It is unlawful for the driver of any vehicle to disobey the
instructions of any official traffic control device placed in accordance
with this title, unless otherwise directed by a police officer, subject
to the exceptions granted the driver of an authorized emergency vehicle
when responding to emergency calls. Whenever a particular section
does not state that signs are required, such section shall be effective
even though no signs are erected or in place.
(Ord. 1109 § 2, 1992)
The traffic engineer and the chief of police are authorized
to remove, relocate or discontinue the operation of any traffic control
device not specifically required by the
Vehicle Code or this title,
whenever they determine in any particular case that the conditions
which warranted or required the installation no longer exist or pertain.
(Ord. 1109 § 2, 1992)
The traffic engineer and the chief of police 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. 1109 § 2, 1992)
The chief of police and designated officers are authorized to
erect and maintain temporary signs or signals regulating traffic and
movement of vehicles upon the streets in the city, so as to prohibit
travel or turning of vehicles upon the streets as in their opinion
the occasion may require. No driver of a vehicle shall disobey the
directions of the signs.
(Ord. 1109 § 2, 1992)
The traffic engineer and the chief of police are 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 center line of the highway.
(Ord. 1109 § 2, 1992)
The traffic engineer and the chief of police are 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 markings or signs and
markings. Such markings or signs and markings shall have the same
effect as similar markings placed by the State Department of Transportation
pursuant to provisions of the
Vehicle Code.
(Ord. 1109 § 2, 1992)
Whenever any ordinance or resolution adopted by the city council
designates any one-way street or alley, the traffic engineer and the
chief of police 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. 1109 § 2, 1992)
Whenever any ordinance or resolution adopted by the city council
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, or any railroad grade crossing at
which vehicles are required to stop, the traffic engineer and the
chief of police shall erect and maintain stop signs. 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 and at any railroad grade crossing so designated.
Every such sign shall conform with, and shall be placed as provided
in the
Vehicle Code.
(Ord. 1109 § 2, 1992)
The traffic engineer and the chief of police shall erect and
maintain appropriate signs on those streets or portions thereof on
which the use of any commercial vehicle is prohibited. Such restrictions
shall not apply to passenger buses under the jurisdiction of the Public
Utilities Commission.
(Ord. 1109 § 2, 1992)
It is unlawful for any person, unless authorized by the city,
to 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. 1109 § 2, 1992)
Any person by whom or under whose immediate direction or by
whose immediate authority as principal or as contractor or employer
any portion of a public street may be made dangerous shall:
(a) Erect and, so long as the danger continues, maintain, around the
portion of the street or highway so made dangerous, a good and substantial
barrier;
(b) Cause to be maintained during every night, from sunset to sunrise,
sufficient lights, torches or flashers plainly visible from a distance
of five hundred feet on that portion of the street or crossing so
made dangerous.
(Ord. 1109 § 2, 1992)