The Traffic Engineer shall place and maintain
official traffic control devices when and as required under the traffic
ordinances of this municipality to make effective the provisions of
said ordinances and may place and maintain such additional official
traffic control devices as he may deem necessary to regulate, warn,
or guide traffic under the traffic ordinances of this municipality
or the State Vehicle Code. The installation of traffic control devices
on state-aid and state highways shall be subject to State Highway
Commission approval.
All traffic control signs, signals and devices
shall conform to specifications approved by the State Highway Commission.
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 this chapter shall be official
traffic control devices.
The driver of any vehicle shall obey the instructions
of any official traffic control device applicable thereto placed in
accordance with the provisions of this chapter, unless otherwise directed
by a police officer, subject to the exceptions granted the driver
of an authorized emergency vehicle.
Whenever official traffic control devices are
placed in position approximately conforming to the requirements of
this chapter, such devices shall hereby be determined to have been
so placed by the official act or direction of lawful authority, unless
the contrary shall be established by competent evidence.
The Town Council shall have authority to declare
any street or part thereof a play street and to place appropriate
signs or devices in the roadway indicating and helping to protect
the same.
Whenever authorized signs are erected indicating
any street or part thereof as a play street, no person shall drive
a vehicle upon any such street or portion thereof except drivers of
vehicles having business or whose residences are within such closed
area, and then any said driver shall exercise the greatest care in
driving upon any such street or portion thereof.
The Traffic Engineer is hereby authorized to
mark traffic lanes upon the roadway of any street or highway where
a regular alignment of traffic is necessary. On state-aid and state
highways, the authority of the Traffic Engineer is subject to State
Highway Commission approval.