Peace officers providing police services to the City are hereby authorized to direct all traffic by means of visible or audible signal. It shall be unlawful for any person to refuse or fail to comply with any lawful order, signal or direction of a traffic or police officer. It shall be unlawful to refuse to or fail to comply with any order, signal or direction of any person appointed by the City Manager to control traffic at school crossings; provided, that the person giving an order, signal or direction at the school crossing is wearing some insignia indicating such appointment. It shall be unlawful for any minor to direct or attempt to direct traffic unless authorized to do so by order of the City Council or City Manager.
The City Council shall by resolution determine and designate the character of all official warning and direction signs and signals. Subject to this selection, the City Manager is hereby authorized, and as to those signs required hereunder is obligated, to place and maintain or cause to be placed and maintained all official warning and direction signs and signals. All signs authorized and required hereunder shall conform to the uniform standards and specifications adopted by the Department of Transportation pursuant to the California Vehicle Code.
No provision of this Chapter for which signs are required shall be enforceable against the alleged violator if at the time and place of the alleged violation the sign herein required is not in proper position and sufficiently legible to be seen by an ordinarily observant person.
No public utility or department of this town shall erect or place any barrier or sign unless of a type first approved by the City Manager, except in cases of emergency pending the posting of an approved sign. It shall be unlawful for any person to disobey the instructions of any barrier or sign lawfully erected or placed by a public utility or by any department of this City.
The City Manager is hereby authorized and required to establish and maintain crosswalks at all intersections where in his or her opinion there is particular danger to pedestrians crossing the roadway. The crosswalks shall be designated by marks, white lines or devices that conform to Department of Transportation specifications.
The provisions of this Chapter regulating the movement, parking and standing of vehicles shall not apply to emergency vehicles of the public or police office or of the fire department or of a public utility while the driver of any such vehicles is engaged in the necessary performance of public emergency duties.