A.
The
city manager 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 code.
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 manager 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 manager 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 code or as may be determined by ordinance or resolution of the
council.
D.
All
stop signs and other signs heretofore set up in place by authority
of the council or by authority of the city manager for the purpose
of regulating vehicular or pedestrian traffic on the public highways,
inclusive of any and all parking stalls, buttons or markings, inclusive
of all markings on curbs for the regulation of vehicular and pedestrian
traffic, together with all crosswalk markings, are approved and confirmed
as lawfully having been authorized and empowered to maintain or replace
the same as occasion may require.
E.
For
the purpose of regulating vehicular and pedestrian traffic on the
public highways of the city, and for the safety and welfare of the
public generally, the city manager is expressly authorized and empowered
and directed to secure and set out, or establish in place, such other
or further signs or to cause such further markings on such public
highways to be made as in his or her judgment appear proper and necessary.
It is made the duty of the city manager constantly to study and to
be familiar with both traffic and pedestrian conditions within the
city, and to place such signs or to make such markings for the regulation
and control of the safety of the public. Any and all signs or markings
thus established by the city manager shall be in compliance with the
Vehicle Code of the state of California and with the ordinances pertaining
to the subject matter heretofore adopted by the council and calculated
and purposed for the safety of the general public. Any sign or markings
for the purposes stated thus provided or established by the city manager
within the scope of these provisions shall be conclusively deemed
and taken as established and maintained by the direct authority of
the council, and shall not be questioned. The city manager shall pay
particular attention to the regulation of both vehicular and pedestrian
traffic on streets adjacent to or approaching public schools, theaters,
churches or other like places where traffic regulations are necessary
or proper and within the scope of the provisions of the Vehicle Code
of the state of California and the prior ordinances on the subject
matter of the city; he or she is also expressly authorized to make
such markings on the streets or establish or set up such signs as
to him or her appear proper or necessary, inclusive of heavily marked
crosswalks, zigzag lines indicating caution or other appropriate markings
or signs. The council continues to reserve its ultimate authority
over any and all such matters, but any and all of such signs, markings
or other observable regulations made by the city manager hereunder
shall be deemed and conclusively taken as by express and direct action
of the council through its administrative officer and are approved
and confirmed by the council as its act and having been approved and
confirmed and adopted by this title. The authority of the city manager
hereunder shall generally be to place and maintain stop signs, yield
signs, semaphores and control devices upon streets and highways as
may be proper and necessary to indicate and to carry out the provisions
of the Vehicle Code of California, or prior or future local traffic
ordinances and to regulate, warn or guide traffic.
F.
For
the purpose of meeting the changing conditions of traffic on the various
streets within the city it is not deemed necessary or practical for
the council to adopt an ordinance in every instance that a stop sign
or other traffic sign is required. The council finds and determines,
and so ordains, that the placing of such signs on the city streets
is an administrative matter, not requiring the exercise of judicial
or legislative functions by the council.
(Prior code § 3302)
No provision of the Vehicle Code, or of this code, 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.
A.
The
city manager is authorized and directed to post appropriate signs
at the termini of each of the one-way driveways and at all entrances
to Euclid Avenue, clearly denoting that each driveway is a one-way
street, and denoting the direction that the traffic thereon must take.
These signs shall be of a permanent nature and wholly or in part of
the reflector type and all as generally required by the Vehicle Code
in relation to signs and the posting thereof.
B.
The
city manager is fully authorized and empowered to open and improve
crossways over and across the median strip at or near the middle of
long blocks as he or she may from time to time be directed by motion
or resolution of the city council, or at such other places as the
city council may direct. Any and all such crossways shall thereupon
become public streets or intersections.
C.
The
city manager is authorized and directed to post appropriate signs
directing all persons desiring to lead, drive, or ride horses on the
Euclid Avenue Parkway Bridle Path to use the oiled surface only and
calling attention to the penalties for violation thereof.
D.
1.
The
city manager is empowered and authorized to procure and place appropriate
signs to regulate all vehicular traffic on the streets within the
city bordering upon any of the public school grounds therein; such
signs may be painted on the surface of the street or permanently posted
or fixed as erect signs between the property line and curb line of
the street, or movable signs may be utilized in front of such school
grounds during the hours when the pupils are going to or from such
buildings. Any and all of such signs shall bear appropriate cautionary
words, signals or warnings and require that all vehicular traffic
shall go slow or shall stop before proceeding if and when school children
or other pedestrians are crossing the streets at such places.
2.
Similarly,
effective during certain hours as warranted by the traffic or pedestrian
use, appropriate signs of warning and regulation may be placed at
any street intersection commonly used in considerable numbers by school
children on their way to and from such school buildings, or in any
other instances where exceptional use of a street crossing, or crossings
is made by pedestrians generally at certain hours and times. Ascertainment
of the fact that there is such unusual use of any particular crossing
by school children or other pedestrians at certain hours shall be
sufficient to warrant and justify the placing of any such movable
sign for the purpose of guiding traffic and the protection of pedestrians
generally. It is made unlawful for the driver or operator of any such
vehicle to fail or refuse to obey or to violate any such warnings,
signals, signs or cautionary directions.
(Prior code § 3302.01)
The operator of any vehicle, train or animal shall obey the
instructions of any official traffic-control device placed in accordance
with this code, 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 § 3302.02)
A.
The
city manager 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 manager 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 California
Maintenance Manual issued by the Division of Highways of the State
Department of Public Works.
C.
Whenever
the city manager 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 § 3302.03)
The city manager 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 § 3302.04)
The city manager 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 markings or signs and markings. Such marking or
signs and marking 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 § 3302.05)
The city manager 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 shall determine
in any particular case that the conditions which warranted or required
the installation no longer exist or pertain.
(Prior code § 3302.06)
The city manager 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
code.
(Prior code § 3302.07)
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 the Upland Municipal Code or any resolution
of this city pertaining thereto.
(Prior code § 3302.08)
