The city engineer shall exercise the powers and duties provided in this chapter and in other traffic laws of the city. Whenever the city engineer is required or authorized to place official traffic control devices or signals, he/she may cause such devices or signals to be placed or maintained.
(Prior code § 4-5.201; Ord. 99-04, 1999)
It shall be the general duty of the city engineer to determine the installation and proper timing and maintenance of traffic control devices and signals, to conduct engineering analyses of traffic accidents and to devise remedial measures, to conduct engineering and traffic investigations of parking and traffic conditions, to cooperate with other city officials in the development of ways and means to improve parking and traffic conditions, and to carry out additional duties and powers imposed by laws of the city.
(Prior code § 4-5.201, 4.5.202; Ord. 99-04, 1999)
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It shall be the duty of the officers of the police department to enforce all street traffic laws of the city and all of the state vehicle laws applicable to street traffic in the city.
B. 
Officers of the police department are authorized to direct all traffic by voice, hand or signal in conformance with traffic laws; provided, however, in the event of a fire or other emergency, or to expedite traffic or to safeguard pedestrians, officers of the police department may direct traffic as conditions may require notwithstanding the provisions of the traffic laws.
C. 
Officers of the fire department, when at the scene of a fire, may direct or assist the police in directing traffic thereat or in the immediate vicinity.
(Prior code § 4-5.301; Ord. 99-04, 1999)
It shall be a misdemeanor for any person to do any act forbidden, or to fail to perform any act required, by the provisions of this title.
(Prior code § 4-5.301; Ord. 99-04, 1999)
The provisions of this title shall apply to the driver of any vehicle owned by or used in the service of the United States government, the state, and any county or city. It is unlawful for any such driver to violate any of the provisions of this chapter except as otherwise permitted in this title or by state laws.
(Prior code § 4-5.304; Ord. 99-04, 1999)
No person, other than an officer of the police department, a person deputized by the police chief, a person authorized by law, or a person engaged in the construction of a roadway shall direct, or attempt to direct, traffic by voice, hand or other signal except that persons may operate, when and as provided in this chapter, any mechanical push-button signal erected by order of the city engineer.
(Prior code § 4-5.305; Ord. 99-04, 1999)
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The city engineer shall have the exclusive power and duty to place and maintain, or cause to be placed and maintained, official traffic control devices when and as required by the traffic laws of the city to make effective the provisions of such laws.
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Whenever the Vehicle Code of the state 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 laws, the city engineer is authorized to install, or cause to be installed, the necessary devices subject to any limitations or restrictions set forth in the laws applicable thereto.
C. 
The city engineer may also place and maintain, or cause to be placed and maintained, such additional control devices as he/she may deem necessary to regulate traffic or to guide or warn traffic, but he/she shall make such determinations 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 the traffic laws of the city.
(Prior code § 4-5.401; Ord. 99-04, 1999)
No provision of the Vehicle Code of the state or of this chapter for which signs are required shall be enforced against an alleged violator unless appropriate signs are in place, and sufficiently legible to be seen by an ordinarily observant person, giving notice of such provisions of the traffic laws.
(Prior code § 4-5.402; Ord. 99-04, 1999)
The driver of any vehicle shall obey the instructions of any official traffic control device applicable thereto placed in accordance with the traffic laws of the city unless otherwise directed by a police officer or other authorized person.
(Prior code § 4-5.403; Ord. 99-04, 1999)
The city 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 § 4-5.404; Ord. 99-04, 1999)
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The city engineer is directed to install and maintain official traffic control 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.
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The city engineer shall ascertain and determine the locations where such signals are required by field observation, traffic counts and other traffic information as may be pertinent. Determinations therefrom shall be made in accordance with those traffic engineering and safety standards and in accordance with current State of California Department of Transportation Traffic Manual.
(Prior code § 4-5.405; Ord. 99-04, 1999)
The city engineer is authorized to mark center lines and lane lines upon the surface of the roadway classified as an arterial, collectors, or any roadway identified as a hazard and needing a center line or lane lines. These lines will indicate the course to be traveled by vehicles. The city engineer may place signs temporarily designating lanes to be used by traffic moving in a particular direction, regardless of the center line of the highway.
(Prior code § 4-5.406; Ord. 99-04, 1999)
The city engineer is authorized to remove, relocate or discontinue the operation of any traffic control device not specifically required by state law or by this chapter whenever he/she shall determine in any particular case that the conditions which warranted or required the installation no longer exist.
(Prior code § 4-5.407; Ord. 99-04, 1999)
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The city engineer is authorized to place markers, buttons or signs within or adjacent to intersections indicating the course to be traveled by vehicles turning at such intersections and is further authorized to allocate and indicate more than one lane of traffic from which drivers of vehicles may make right-hand or left-hand turns, and the course to be traveled as so indicated may conform to, or be other than, as prescribed by law.
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When authorized markers, buttons or other indications are placed within an intersection indicating the course to be traveled by vehicles turning thereat, no driver of a vehicle shall disobey the directions of such indications.
(Prior code § 4-5.501; Ord. 99-04, 1999)
The city engineer is authorized to determine those intersections at which drivers of vehicles shall not make a right, left or U turn and shall place proper signs at such intersections. The making of such turns may be prohibited between certain hours of any day and permitted at other hours, in which event the same shall be plainly indicated on the signs, and such signs may be removed when such turns are permitted.
(Prior code § 4-5.502; Ord. 99-04, 1999)
Whenever authorized signs are erected indicating that no right or left or U turn is permitted, no driver of a vehicle shall disobey the direction of any such sign.
(Prior code § 4-5.503; Ord. 99-04, 1999)
Whenever any ordinance of the city designates any one-way street or alley, the city engineer shall place and maintain signs giving notice thereof, and no such regulations shall be effective unless such signs are in place. Signs indicating the directions of lawful traffic movement shall be placed at every intersection where movement of traffic in the opposite direction is prohibited.
(Prior code § 4-5.601; Ord. 99-04, 1999)
Whenever any ordinance of the city designates and describes any intersection at which vehicles are required to stop at one or more entrances thereto and at any railroad grade crossing so designated, the city engineer shall erect and maintain stop signs except at such intersections where traffic control signals are installed. Every such sign shall conform with and shall be placed as provided in the California Vehicle Code. The provisions of this chapter shall apply at the stop intersections described in Chapter 10.32.
(Prior code § 4-5.701; Ord. 99-04, 1999; Ord. 08-14, 2008)
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Those streets and parts of streets described in Section 10.40.010 are declared to be through streets for the purposes of this chapter.
B. 
Whenever any ordinance of the city designates and describes any street or portion thereof as a through street, the city engineer may erect and maintain yield signs or stop signs on each street intersecting such through street or portion thereof. Every such sign shall conform with and shall be placed as provided in the California Vehicle Code.
C. 
At the intersection of two through streets, the city engineer shall determine whether the proper right-of-way assignment is an entrance stop, a three-way stop or a four-way stop except at such intersections where traffic control signals are installed.
(Prior code § 4-5.702; Ord. 99-04, 1999; Ord. 08-14, 2008)