(A) Whenever the traffic ordinances or any other ordinance of the town designates and describes a through street, it shall be the duty of the Traffic Engineer to place and maintain a stop sign on each and every street intersecting such through street or intersecting that portion thereof described and designated as such by any ordinance of the town unless traffic at any such intersection is controlled at all times by traffic-control signals. However, at the intersection of two such through streets or at the intersection of a through street and a heavy traffic street not so designated, stop signs shall be erected at the approaches of either or both of the streets as may be determined by the Traffic Engineer upon the basis of an engineering and traffic study.
(B) The Traffic Engineer is authorized to determine and designate intersections where particular hazards exist upon other than through streets and may designate any such intersection as a stop intersection or a yield intersection and erect stop signs or yield signs at one or more entrances to such intersections.
(C) Every stop sign erected pursuant to this section shall bear the word “stop” in letters not less than eight inches in height, and every yield sign shall bear the word “yield” in letters not less than seven inches in height. Such signs shall at nighttime be rendered luminous by steady or flashing internal illumination, by a fixed floodlight projected on the face of the sign, or by efficient reflecting elements on the face of the sign. Every stop sign and every yield sign shall be located as near as practicable at the nearest line of the crosswalk on the near side of the intersection or, if none, at the nearest line of the roadway, in residence and business districts, and at any place where parked vehicles may frequently obscure the stop or yield signs, the signs shall be mounted so that their lower edge will be seven feet above the top of the curb. The left edge of the sign shall be not less than one foot, nor more than three feet, back from the face of the curb. Where there is a marked crosswalk on the pavement, the sign shall be erected four feet in advance of the crosswalk line nearest to approaching traffic.
(Prior Code, § 4:2:15) (Ord. 82-16, passed 12-31-1982)