A.
The
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 chapter.
B.
Whenever
the California Vehicle Code or this chapter 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 shall place and maintain, or cause to be placed and
maintained, such appropriate signs, signals or other traffic-control
devices as may be authorized hereunder or by the California Vehicle
Code, or as may be necessary to carry out the provisions of this chapter
or the California Vehicle Code, or to warn or guide traffic upon the
highways.
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 and proper to regulate traffic or to guide or warn
traffic, but the City Traffic Engineer 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 chapter or as may be determined
by ordinance or resolution of the City Council.
(Prior code § 70.15)
No provision of the California Vehicle Code or of this chapter
for which signs are required shall be enforced against an alleged
violator unless legible signs are in place giving notice of such provisions
of the traffic laws.
(Prior code § 70.16)
The operator of any vehicle or train shall obey the instructions
of any official traffic-control device placed in accordance with this
chapter unless otherwise directed by a police officer or other authorized
person subject to the exceptions granted the operator of an authorized
emergency vehicle when responding to emergency calls.
(Prior code § 70.17)
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 counts
and other traffic information as may be pertinent and such determinations
therefrom shall be made in accordance with those uniform standards
and specifications promulgated by the Department of Transportation.
C.
Whenever
the City Traffic Engineer installs and maintains an official traffic
signal at any intersection, he or she 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.
(Prior code § 70.18)
The City Traffic Engineer is 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.
(Prior code § 70.19)
The City Traffic Engineer is authorized to place and maintain
distinctive roadway markings as described and with the effect set
forth in California Vehicle Code Section 21460 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.
(Prior code § 70.20)
The Traffic Engineer is authorized to remove, relocate or discontinue
the operation of any traffic-control device not specifically required
by the California Vehicle Code or this chapter whenever he or she
shall determine in any particular case that the conditions which warranted
or required the installation no longer exist or obtain.
(Prior code § 70.21)
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 chapter.
(Prior code § 70.22)
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.
(Prior code § 70.23)
The City Traffic Engineer is authorized to place official traffic-control
devices within or adjacent to intersections and indicating the course
to be traveled by vehicles turning at such intersections, and the
City Traffic Engineer is 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 or ordinance.
(Prior code § 70.24)
The City Traffic Engineer is authorized to determine and place
proper signs at those intersections at which drivers of vehicles shall
not make a right, left or U turn. 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
or they may be removed when such turns are permitted.
(Prior code § 70.25)
Whenever any ordinance or resolution of the City designates
any one-way street or alley, the City Traffic 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 direction of lawful traffic movement shall be placed at every
intersection where movement of traffic in the opposite direction is
prohibited.
(Prior code § 70.26)
Whenever any ordinance or resolution of the City 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 City Traffic Engineer shall erect and maintain
stop signs on each and every street intersecting such through street
or portion thereof so designated and at those entrances to other intersections
where a stop is required and at any railroad grade crossing so designated;
provided, however, stop signs shall not be erected or maintained at
any entrance to an intersection when such entrance is controlled by
an official traffic-control signal. Every such sign shall conform
with and shall be placed as provided in the California Vehicle Code.
(Prior code § 70.27)
