[Amended at time of adoption of Code (see Ch. 1, General
Provisions, Art. I)]
Except where another penalty is prescribed,
whoever violates any provision of this chapter shall forfeit and pay
a sum not less than $25 nor more than $500, and each day on which
such violations continue shall constitute a separate offense.
All regulations of this chapter are subject
to the provision that all persons must at all times comply with any
direction, by voice or hand, of any member of the police force as
to stopping, placing, starting, approaching or departing from any
place and the manner of taking up or setting down passengers or loading
or unloading goods at any place.
The City Manager and Chief of Police shall determine
and designate the character of all official warning and direction
signs and signals, the Chief of Police shall place and maintain the
same, and all signs herein authorized and required for a particular
purpose shall be uniform.
The Chief of Police shall establish safety zones
and crosswalks wherever in their opinion there is particular danger
to pedestrians and designate and maintain the same by appropriate
devices, marks or white lines upon the surface of the roadway. When
crosswalks are established and maintained outside of a business district,
the Chief of Police shall, by appropriate devices, marks or white
lines, mark and maintain along the surface of the roadway an arrow,
not less than 12 inches wide in the shaft and not less than 12 feet
long, pointing in the direction of the crosswalk, together with the
word "slow" in block letters not less than 12 inches high and not
less than four inches wide, 50 feet distant from each crosswalk so
established.
Whenever traffic is controlled by mechanical
or electric traffic control signals exhibiting different colored lights
successively, one at a time, or together, or with arrows, the following
colors shall be used, and said light or lights shall indicate and
apply to drivers of vehicles and pedestrians as follows:
A. Red signal. Red signal alone shall mean "stop." Traffic
facing the signal shall stop before entering the intersection and
remain standing until the green or "go" signal is shown alone.
B. Green signal. Green signal alone shall mean "go."
Traffic facing the signal may proceed, except that vehicle drivers
shall yield the right-of-way to pedestrians and vehicles lawfully
within a crosswalk or intersection at the time when such signal was
exhibited.
C. Amber signal. An amber signal alone shall indicate
a clearing sequence allowing traffic within an intersection to proceed
through the intersection but warning traffic approaching the intersection
not to enter said intersection.
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D. Green arrow. A green arrow shall indicate that the
traffic facing the signal may proceed in the direction that the arrow
is pointing.
E. Amber and red signals together. Amber and red signals
together shall indicate a pedestrian walk period, and no traffic shall
enter or move within an intersection against such signals.
At intersections and crosswalks protected by
signal systems or police officers, the respective rights of vehicles
and pedestrians shall be exercised under the direction of the traffic
signals or police officers.
No person shall violate the instructions of
any mechanical or electrical traffic signal, traffic sign, marks upon
the street, barriers or signs authorized or approved by the City Manager
or Chief of Police or willfully deface, injure, move or interfere
with the same.
The Chief of Police shall keep and maintain,
or cause to be kept and maintained, at each and every street intersecting
a through way, at or near the property line of the through street,
an appropriate sign or device bearing the word "stop," the same to
be located in such a position at the curbline and to be provided with
letters of a size to be clearly legible from a distance at least 100
feet along the street intersecting the through way.