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 or she
may deem necessary or proper to regulate traffic or to guide or warn
traffic, but he or she 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.
(Prior code § 13.18)
A.
The
City Traffic Engineer is authorized 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 counts
and other traffic information as may be pertinent, and his or her
determinations therefrom shall be made in accordance with those traffic
engineering and safety standards and instructions set forth in the
manuals issued by the Division of Highways of the state Department
of Public Works.
(Prior code § 13.21)
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 § 13.25)
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.
(Prior code § 13.19)
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.
(Prior code § 13.22)
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 signs and markings. Such marking
or signs and markings shall have the same effect as similar markings
placed by the state Department of Public Works pursuant to provisions
of the Vehicle Code.
(Prior code § 13.23)
A.
It
is unlawful for any person driving, or operating, propelling or causing
to be propelled, any vehicle to fail, refuse or neglect to stop within
fifty feet prior to the nearest side of a school crosswalk or pedestrian
lane where any signal device, police officer or any other authorized
person is stationed giving warning that children are about to cross
or are crossing the street; and it is further declared unlawful to
start such vehicle into motion until such signal has stopped, raised,
been removed or given an indication to proceed, or the police officer
or other authorized person has given a signal to proceed or has left
the locality.
B.
The
signals referred to in this section and known hereafter as "school
signals" shall be of the type as follows:
A yellow intermittent light shall be displayed during those
hours in any one day as deemed necessary for the safety and welfare
of school children, and shall be an indication to the operator of
a vehicle of a school crosswalk, and a further indication to the operator
of a vehicle to proceed with caution. The "school signal" shall display
a constant yellow light upon being actuated by a remote control operated
by a pedestrian, and shall be an indication to the operator of a vehicle
that the constant red light alone is about to be displayed and shall
be further indication to the operator of a vehicle that a complete
stop within fifty feet prior to the crosswalk or pedestrian lane contiguous
to the signal will be required. A constant red light shall be displayed
immediately after the display of the constant yellow light by the
"school signal," which shall be an indication to the operator of a
vehicle that a complete stop is required and the vehicle shall not
be placed into motion prior to the "school signal" resuming the operation
of an intermittent yellow light, which shall indicate to proceed with
caution.
(Prior code § 13.27)
No person, unless authorized by this 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 this
City pertaining thereto.
(Prior code § 13.26)
The City Traffic 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 or she determines
in any particular case that the conditions which warranted or required
the installation no longer exist or obtain.
(Prior code § 13.24)
