It shall be the duty of the Chief of Police to cooperate with
the City Transportation Engineer and other officers of the City in
the administration of the traffic laws and in developing ways and
means to improve traffic conditions, and to carry out those duties
specially imposed upon the Chief by this title and the traffic ordinances
of this City.
(Prior code §31.2; Ord. 2713, 1959)
Whenever the accidents at any particular location become numerous,
the Chief shall cooperate with the City Transportation Engineer in
conducting studies of such accidents and determining remedial measures.
(Prior code §31.3; Ord. 2713, 1959)
The Chief shall make traffic accident reports available for
the use and information of the City Transportation Engineer. The City
Transportation Engineer shall maintain an accident location file of
information from the reports.
(Prior code §31.4; Ord. 2713, 1959)
The Council hereby delegates to the Transportation Engineer
authority on behalf of the City to adopt standards under which the
City shall provide school crossing guards. If it is determined that
a crossing guard is warranted at a certain location, the Chief of
Police shall assign a crossing guard to that location. It shall be
the duty of the Chief to hire, train, supervise, and otherwise administer
crossing guards.
(Prior code §31.5; Ord. 2713, 1959; Ord. 4031, 1979)
It shall be the general duty of the City Transportation Engineer,
under the direction of the Director of Public Works to determine the
location, installation and proper timing and maintenance of traffic
control devices, to conduct engineering analyses of traffic accidents
and to devise remedial measures, to conduct engineering investigation
of traffic conditions and to cooperate with other City officials in
the development of ways and means to improve traffic conditions, and
to carry out any additional powers and duties imposed by ordinances
of this City.
(Prior code §31.6; Ord. 2731, 1959)
A.
Whenever
the Chief of Police determines that emergencies, special conditions
or events make necessary the temporary suspension or alteration of
the usual traffic flow, traffic control or vehicle parking regulations,
the Chief of Police is given the power and authority to adopt and
enforce temporary regulations to make effective such temporary suspension
or alteration. Such temporary regulations shall become effective when
the Chief of Police places or removes or causes the placing or removing,
of signs, signals or markings, or when the Chief of Police stations
a Police Officer to give notice of such temporary regulations. The
Chief of Police shall reinstate the usual traffic flow, traffic control
or vehicle parking regulations by removing or replacing, or causing
the removal or replacement, of such signs, signals or markings, or
by removing the Police Officer from his or her station, immediately
upon the termination of the emergency, special condition or event,
unless otherwise directed by the City Council.
B.
If,
in order to provide for the emergency, special condition or event,
the Chief of Police determines that parking on all or any portion
of any street shall be prohibited, any vehicle parked contrary to
such temporary regulation may be removed or caused to be removed from
such street by a Police Officer in the manner and subject to the provisions
of the California Vehicle Code, if signs have been erected or placed
at least 24 hours prior to the removal of such vehicle giving notice
that such vehicle may be removed.
(Prior code §31.7; Ord. 2713, 1959; Ord. 2994, 1964)
The Transportation Engineer is empowered to make regulations
necessary to make effective the provisions of this title, to cover
emergencies or special conditions and to make temporary or experimental
regulations. No such temporary or experimental regulation shall remain
in effect for more than 90 days. In the event that after 90 days the
experimental regulations have proved satisfactory, they may be placed
into effect permanently by Council authorization.
(Prior code §31.8; Ord. 2713, 1959)
It shall be the duty of members of the Police Department to
enforce the provisions of this title. Officers of the Police Department
or such officers as are assigned by the Chief of Police are authorized
to direct all traffic by voice, hand or signal in conformance with
traffic laws, provided that in the event of a fire or in event of
parades or other emergency, or to expedite traffic or to safeguard
pedestrians, Officers of the Police Department or Officers assigned,
may direct traffic as conditions may require, notwithstanding the
provisions of the traffic laws.
(Prior code §31.9; Ord. 2713, 1959)
A.
No
person shall willfully fail or refuse to comply with any lawful order,
direction or signal of a Police Officer or member of the Fire Department
while directing traffic or performing official duties.
B.
The
operator of any vehicle, and any pedestrian using the streets, shall
obey the instructions of any traffic control device, barrier, sign,
marking, barrier tape or other device placed or erected pursuant to
the provisions of this chapter.
C.
No
person shall stop, leave standing or park any vehicle contrary to
a prohibition imposed pursuant to the provisions of this chapter.
No person shall stop, leave standing or park any vehicle within an
area designated as prohibited, or contrary to the restrictions or
limitations indicated by barriers, signs, marking, barrier tape or
other device provided pursuant to the provisions of this chapter.
(Prior code §31.11; Ord. 2713, 1959; Ord. 4885, 1994)
No person other than an Officer of the Police Department or
person authorized or deputized by the Chief of Police or person authorized
by law shall direct or attempt to direct traffic by voice, hand or
other signal, except, that persons may operate when and as provided
in this title, any mechanical pushbutton signal erected by order of
an authorized public body.
(Prior code §31.12; Ord. 2713, 1959)
Every City employee or volunteer designated by the Chief of
Police and charged with enforcement of the provisions of Title 10
relating to illegal parking, the provisions of the California Vehicle
Code, and the other laws of the State applicable to parking violations
within the City, may issue written citations or notices of violation
for vehicles parked in violation of this code.
(Prior code §31.16; Ord. 2713, 1959; Ord. 5873, 2019)
A.
It
is unlawful for any person to refuse or fail to comply with any lawful
order, signal or direction of any person appointed by the Chief of
Police to control traffic at school crossings, provided that such
person giving any order, signal or direction at such school crossing
shall at the time be wearing some insignia, or carrying some insignia,
indicating such appointment.
B.
It
is unlawful for any person driving or operating, propelling, or causing
to be propelled, any vehicle, to fail to stop within 25 feet of the
nearest side of a school pedestrian lane where any signal device,
flagman or other person is stationed, giving warning that children
are about to cross or are crossing the street; and it is further declared
unlawful to proceed until such signal has stopped, raised, or been
removed, or the flagman or person stationed at such pedestrian lane
has given a signal to go or has left the locality.
(Prior code §31.13; Ord. 2713, 1959)
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,
any State, any County, City and County or municipal corporation, or
other public agency, and it shall be unlawful for any such driver
to violate any of the provisions of this title except as otherwise
permitted in this title.
(Prior code §31.14; Ord. 2713, 1959)
A.
The
provisions of this title regulating the operation, parking and standing
of vehicles shall not apply to any vehicle of the Police or Fire Department,
any public ambulance, or any public utility vehicle or private ambulance,
which public utility vehicle or private ambulance has qualified as
an authorized emergency vehicle when any vehicle mention in this section
is operated in the manner specified in the California Vehicle Code
in response to any emergency call.
B.
The
foregoing exemptions shall not, however, protect the driver of any
such vehicle from the consequences of his or her willful disregard
of the safety of others.
C.
The
provisions of this chapter regulating the parking or standing of vehicles
shall not apply to any vehicle of a Fire Department, or Police Department,
or public utility, or City department, which necessarily is used for
construction or repair work, or any vehicle owned by the United States,
while in use for the collection, transportation or delivery of United
States mail or parcel post.
D.
The
provisions of this chapter shall not apply to any vehicle of a public
utility, City department or licensed construction contractor necessarily
used in connection with construction or repair work for periods of
time in excess of parking time limits herein prescribed, provided
that any such construction contractor shall apply for and obtain from
the Police Department a permit for such excess time parking and which
said permit shall designate the time required for such construction
or repair work and said permit shall be conspicuously attached to
the vehicle.
(Prior code §31.15; Ord. 2713, 1959; Ord. 3065, 1965)
Every person propelling any push cart or riding an animal or
driving a horse-drawn vehicle upon a roadway, shall be subject to
the provisions of this title applicable to the driver of any vehicle,
except those provisions of this title which by their very nature can
have no application.
(Prior code §31.16; Ord. 2713, 1959)
