(a)
The traffic engineer and the chief of police shall have the power
and duty to place and maintain, or cause to be placed or 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 traffic engineer and
the chief of police are authorized to install or cause to be installed
the necessary devices subject to any limitations or restrictions set
forth in the law.
(c)
The traffic engineer and the chief of police may also place and maintain,
or cause to be placed and maintained, such additional traffic control
devices as they may deem necessary or proper to regulate traffic or
to guide or warn traffic, but they shall make such determination only
upon the basis of traffic engineering principles and traffic investigation
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.
(d)
The traffic engineer and chief of police are authorized to regulate
the timing of traffic signals so as to permit the movement of traffic
in an orderly and safe manner at speeds slightly at variance from
the speeds otherwise applicable within the districts or at intersections,
and may erect appropriate signs giving notice thereof.
(Ord. 1109 § 2, 1992)
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)
(a)
The traffic engineer and the chief of police are 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 traffic engineer and the chief of police shall ascertain and
determine the locations where such signals are required by field investigation,
traffic counts and other traffic information as may be pertinent and
their determination therefrom shall be made in accordance with those
traffic engineering and safety standards and instructions set forth
in the California Traffic Manual issued by the State of California,
Department of Transportation.
(c)
Whenever the traffic engineer and the chief of police install and
maintain an official traffic signal at an intersection, they 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 intersection.
(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)
(a)
The traffic engineer and the chief of police are authorized to place
markers, buttons or signs within or adjacent to intersections and
to indicate the course to be traveled by vehicles turning at such
intersections, and are authorized to locate and indicate more than
one lane of traffic from which drivers of vehicles may make right
or left-hand turns, and the course to be traveled as so indicated
may conform to or be other than as prescribed by law.
(b)
The traffic engineer and the chief of police are authorized to determine
those intersections at which drivers of vehicle shall not make a right,
left or U-turn, and shall place signs giving notice thereof at such
intersections.
(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)
(a)
Whenever any ordinance or resolution adopted by the city council
designates and describes any street or portion thereof on which any
vehicle exceeding a maximum gross weight limit of three tons is permitted,
the traffic engineer and the chief of police are authorized to designate
such street or streets by appropriate signs as “Truck Traffic
Routes” for the movement of vehicles exceeding a maximum gross
weight limit of three tons.
(b)
Those streets and parts of streets so marked are declared to be truck
routes for the movement of vehicles exceeding a maximum gross weight
of three tons.
(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)
(a)
No street shall be closed or partially obstructed, or detours established,
without approval of the chief of police.
(b)
All barriers and signs erected in the highway shall be of a type
and located as approved by the traffic engineer and the chief of police.
(c)
In case of emergency, a public utility or department of the city
shall be exempt from the provisions of this section.
(d)
The driver of any vehicle shall obey the instructions of any barricades
or devices placed under the provisions of this section.
(Ord. 1109 § 2, 1992)
