The municipal engineer shall place and maintain traffic control signs, signals and devices when required under the traffic ordinances of the municipality to make effective the provisions of the ordinances, and may place and maintain such additional traffic control devices as he may deem necessary to regulate traffic under the municipality’s traffic ordinances or under state law, or to guide and warn traffic.
The municipal engineer may determine those intersections at which it would facilitate the orderly movement of traffic and would be reasonable and safe to permit vehicles to turn right after stopping and shall place proper signs at such intersections. Vehicular traffic facing such red signal and sign permitting a right turn shall stop before entering the crosswalk on the near side of the intersection or, if none, then before entering the intersection and, after stopping, may proceed with caution to make a right turn but shall yield the right-of-way to pedestrians lawfully within the crosswalk and to other traffic lawfully using the intersection.
(S.G.C. 11.24.010; Ord. 73-57 § 3, 1973)
All traffic control signs, signals, and devices shall so far as practicable conform to the “Manual of Uniform Traffic Control Devices for Streets and Highways.” All signs and signals required hereunder for a particular purpose shall so far as practicable be uniform as to type and location throughout the municipality. All traffic control devices so erected and not inconsistent with the provisions of state law or municipal ordinances shall be official traffic control devices.
(S.G.C. 11.24.020; Ord. 73-57 § 3, 1973)
The municipal engineer is empowered:
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To designate and maintain, by appropriate devices, marks or lines upon the surface of the roadway, crosswalks at intersections where in his opinion there is particular danger to pedestrians crossing the road-ways, and at such other place as he may deem necessary.
B. 
To establish safety zones of such kind and character and at such places as he may deem necessary for the protection of pedestrians.
(S.G.C. 11.24.040; Ord. 73-57 § 3, 1973; Ord. 84-597 § 4(B), 1984)
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The municipal engineer may mark traffic lanes upon the roadway of any street or highway where a regular alignment of traffic is necessary.
B. 
Where such traffic lanes have been marked, it is unlawful for the driver of any vehicle to fail or refuse to keep such vehicle within the boundaries of any such lanes except when lawfully passing another vehicle or preparatory to making a lawful turning movement.
(S.G.C. 11.24.050; Ord. 73-57 § 3, 1973; Ord. 84-597 § 4(B), 1984)
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The municipal engineer may be authorized by the municipal administrator to close streets to traffic.
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Whenever any street is closed to the use of traffic and so indicated by authorized signs or barriers, no vehicle shall proceed into the street or any portion thereof except as directed by the signs. Whenever a street is closed, notice shall immediately be given to the fire chief by the municipal engineer.
(S.G.C. 11.24.060; Ord. 73-57 § 3, 1973; Ord. 84-597 § 4(B), 1984)
All curbing painted yellow means no parking at any time. Other parking restrictions shall be shown by standard parking signs indicating the type of restriction. No signs or other markings shall be necessary in the case of yellow-painted curbs which prohibit parking at any time.
(S.G.C. 11.24.070; Ord. 73-57 § 3, 1973; Ord. 84-597 § 4(B), 1984)
The municipal engineer may designate and describe arterial streets or highways. When so designated, it shall be the duty of the municipal engineer to place and maintain a “STOP” sign on each and every street or highway intersecting such arterial street or highway or intersecting that portion thereof described and designated as such unless traffic signals control; provided, however, that at the intersection of two such arterial streets or highways, or at the intersection of an arterial street and a heavy traffic street, such “STOP” signs shall be erected at the approaches of either of the streets as may be determined by the municipal engineer on the basis of a traffic study.
(S.G.C. 11.24.080; Ord. 73-57 § 3, 1973; Ord. 84-597 § 4(B), 1984)
The municipal engineer is authorized to determine and designate intersections where particular hazard exists upon other than arterial streets or highways and to determine whether vehicles shall stop at one or more entrances to any such intersection, and shall erect a “STOP” sign at every such place where a stop is required.
(S.G.C. 11.24.090; Ord. 73-57 § 3, 1973; Ord. 84-597 § 4(B), 1984)
Every sign erected pursuant to this chapter shall be in conformance with the Manual on Uniform Traffic Control Devices and shall bear the word “STOP” in letters not less than eight inches in height. Such sign shall at nighttime be rendered luminous by efficient reflecting elements on the face of the sign. Every stop sign shall be located as near as practicable at the nearest line of the crosswalk on the rear side of the intersection or, if none, at the nearest line of the roadway and shall be placed on the right side of such street.
(S.G.C. 11.24.100; Ord. 73-57 § 3, 1973; Ord. 84-597 § 4(B), 1984)