(a) 
The City Traffic Engineer shall have the exclusive power and duty, except for those traffic control devices as identified in the California Vehicle Code that specifically require City Council approval or action, to place and maintain, or cause to be placed and maintained, official traffic control devices when and as required by the provisions of this chapter or by order of the City Council.
(b) 
Whenever the California Vehicle Code or CAMUTCD 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 hereby authorized to install the necessary devices subject to any limitations or restrictions set forth in the law applicable thereto.
(Added by Ord. 18-1402, adopted 11-13-18)
(a) 
The City Traffic Engineer is hereby directed to recommend the installation of 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 and to install and maintain such traffic signals when ordered to do so by resolution of the City Council.
(b) 
The City Traffic Engineer shall ascertain and determine the locations where traffic signals are required by resort to field observations, traffic counts, accident history, street and area conditions, professional judgment and other traffic information as may be pertinent, and the City Traffic Engineer's determinations therefrom shall be made in accordance with the procedures, methodology, standards, requirements, guidelines and criteria set forth in the CAMUTCD and California Vehicle Code.
(c) 
Whenever the City Traffic Engineer installs and maintains an official traffic signal at any intersection, street name signs visible to the principal flow of traffic shall likewise be erected and maintained at such intersection unless such street name signs have previously been placed and are maintained at any such intersection.
(Added by Ord. 18-1402, adopted 11-13-18)
The City Traffic Engineer is hereby authorized to remove, relocate or discontinue the operation of any traffic control device not specifically required by State of California law or this chapter whenever it is determined in any particular case that the conditions which warranted or required the installation no longer exist. Removal, relocation, or discontinued use of any traffic control device shall be in conformance with the requirements of the CAMUTCD and the California Vehicle Code.
(Added by Ord. 18-1402, adopted 11-13-18)
No person other than the City Traffic Engineer or a person or contractor acting under the City Traffic Engineer's direction or an Agency working under a cooperative agreement with the City shall install, place, damage or remove any traffic control device except as otherwise expressly provided in this Code.
(Added by Ord. 18-1402, adopted 11-13-18)
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 set forth in this chapter.
(Added by Ord. 18-1402, adopted 11-13-18)