(A) It shall be the general duty of the City Traffic Engineer to determine the installation and proper timing of official traffic-control devices, to conduct engineering analyses of traffic accidents and to devise remedial measures, to conduct engineering investigation of traffic conditions and to cooperate with other city officials in the development of ways and means to improve traffic conditions, and to carry out the means to improve traffic conditions, and to carry out the additional powers and duties imposed by the ordinances.
(B) The City Traffic Engineer, except as otherwise directed by this chapter, and except as otherwise directed from time to time by the City Council, shall have power and he or she is hereby authorized:
(1) To regulate the operation and parking of vehicles within the city, including private property used for public purposes, by the erection or placing of official traffic-control devices to indicate prohibited or limited parking, prima facie maximum and minimum reasonable and prudent speeds specified by statute or established by ordinance or other lawful manner, restricted speed areas, one-way streets, through or arterial streets, stop streets, “U” turns, school zones, loading and unloading zones and the place and manner of operating or parking vehicles;
(2) To regulate the movement of pedestrians upon the streets and sidewalks by the erection or placing of official traffic-control devices indicating the flow of pedestrian traffic where, in his or her opinion, there is a particular danger to pedestrians, and to maintain such devices, or cause them to be maintained;
(3) To designate truck routes and to regulate the parking of vehicles of various sizes and weights;
(4) To cause all such necessary official traffic-control devices to be erected or placed on any street or part of a street when he or she deems such action necessary;
(5) To mark off traffic lanes on streets and parts of streets indicating and directing the flow of traffic, when, in his or her judgment, such action is necessary;
(6) To determine and designate the character or type of, and to place and maintain, or cause to be placed and maintained, all official traffic-control devices, including all official traffic signs and signals;
(7) To determine and designate intersections where particular hazard exists and to determine whether vehicles shall stop at one or more entrances to any such stop intersection, and to erect a stop sign at every such place where a stop is required;
(8) To determine and designate intersections where particular hazard exists and to designate whether vehicles on one of the intersecting streets yield the right-of-way to vehicles on the other street and to erect a “yield” sign at every place where need is determined for such a sign;
(9) To erect or place official traffic-control devices, including appropriate signs and markings, to designate the truck routes and commercial delivery routes described in this chapter;
(10) To designate, for such period as might be necessary, alternate truck routes and commercial delivery routes whenever any street designated as a truck route or commercial delivery route is being repaired or is otherwise temporarily out of use;
(11) To determine and designate spaces and/or lanes for exclusive uses as bus zones, bus lanes, taxicab stands and passenger and freight loading zones, no parking zones and “one-way” traffic lanes in which driving is prohibited in one direction and permitted in the opposite direction, and to place or erect official traffic-control devices, indicating same, within any areaway, parkway, traffic-way or parking space owned or controlled by any public service concern, public service utility company, terminal company, railroad or other quasi-public corporation or public concern, designed for the temporary parking of patrons of such public concern, utility or corporation;
(12) To designate, upon any street or portion of any street, the parking meter zones set forth in this chapter where it is determined, upon the basis of an engineering and traffic investigation, that the installation of parking meters shall be necessary to aid in the regulation, control or inspection of the parking of vehicles in the exercise of the police power of regulating, operating or controlling the operation of vehicles using the public streets, to install and maintain parking meters upon the curb immediately adjacent to the individual parking spaces, in order to control and regulate such parking meter zones, to designate the maximum parking time for each parking meter, basing this designation upon the investigation above set forth; to erect or place an official traffic-control device, including lines or marks on the curb or on the street about or alongside each parking meter, in order to designate the parking space for which such meter is to be used;
(13) To establish such loading zones as are necessary for the conduct of business and to use official traffic-control devices to designate such zones; and
(14) To designate some member of his or her department to make regular collections of the money deposited in parking meters, which member shall remove these coins from the meters, place the coins in sealed or locked containers, and deliver such containers and funds to the place designated by the City Secretary.