All traffic-control devices including signs, signals and markings (pavement and/or curb) installed or used for the purpose of directing and controlling traffic within the city shall conform with the manual and specifications adopted by the state transportation commission as provided in V.T.C.A., Transportation Code, section 544.001. All signs, signals and markings erected or used by the city must conform to the manual and specifications adopted under V.T.C.A., Transportation Code, section 544.001. All existing traffic-control devices and those erected in the future by the city being consistent with the manual and specifications, state law and this section shall be official traffic-control devices.
(Ordinance 106, sec. 2(1.001), adopted 6/16/2020; Ordinance adopting Code)
(a) 
The board of aldermen shall by ordinance direct that the mayor shall have the duty of erecting or installing upon, over, along, or beside any highway, street or alley signs, signals and markings, or causing the same to be erected, installed or placed, in accordance with this chapter and consistent with the manual. Said traffic-control devices shall be installed immediately, or as soon as such specific device, sign or signal can be procured.
(b) 
Whenever the mayor has erected and installed any official traffic-control device, signal or sign at any location in the city, or has caused the same to be done under his direction, in obedience to this chapter and the manual, the mayor shall thereafter file a report with the city secretary in writing and signed officially by the mayor, stating the type of traffic-control device, sign or signal, and when and where the same was erected and installed. The city secretary shall file and maintain such report of the mayor among the official papers of the office of the city secretary.
(Ordinance 106, sec. 2(1.002), adopted 6/16/2020; Ordinance adopting Code)
It being unlawful for any person other than the mayor, acting pursuant to an ordinance of the city, to install or cause to be installed any signal, sign or device purporting to direct the use of the streets or the activities on those streets of pedestrians, vehicles, motor vehicles, or animals, proof, in any prosecution for a violation of this chapter or any traffic regulations of the city, that any traffic-control device, sign, signal or marking was actually in place on any street shall constitute prima facie evidence that the same was installed by the mayor pursuant to the authority of this chapter and of the ordinance directing the installation of such device, signal or marking.
(Ordinance 106, sec. 2(1.003), adopted 6/16/2020)