(a) The traffic engineer is hereby authorized to erect stop signs at the entrances of intersections designated by him, which signs shall be located so as to indicate which vehicles approaching the intersection are required to stop. The driver of a vehicle approaching such a sign shall stop at the entrance to the intersection and shall yield the right-of-way to other vehicles which have entered the intersection or which are approaching so closely as to constitute an immediate hazard, but such driver, having so yielded, may proceed and the drivers of all other vehicles approaching the intersection shall yield the right-of-way to the vehicle so proceeding into or across the intersection.
(b) Violation of this section shall be an infraction and shall be punishable as provided in N.C. Gen. Stat. § 14-4.
(Code 1965, § 28-99; Ord. No. 4910, § 2, 11-9-21)
State law reference(s)—Authority of city to designate stop intersections, G.S. 20-158.