(A) Through streets designated. Those streets and parts of streets described in Ch. 74, Sched. I are hereby declared to be through streets for the purpose of this section.
(B) Authority to erect signs. Whenever any ordinance of this town designates and describes a through street, it shall be the duty of the Town Traffic Engineer to place and maintain a stop sign or a yield sign on each and every street intersecting such through street or intersecting that portion thereof described and designated as such by any ordinance of this town.
(C) Intersection where stop or yield signs required. The Town Traffic Engineer is hereby authorized to determine and designate intersections where particular hazards exist upon other than through streets and determine whether vehicles shall stop or yield at one or more entrances to any such intersection and shall erect a stop or yield sign at every such place where, in his or her opinion, such is required.
(D) Signs to bear the word “stop” or “yield.” Every sign erected pursuant to this section shall bear the word “STOP” or “YIELD” in letters not less than six inches in height. Every 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.
(E) Vehicles and passenger buses to stop or yield. When stop or yield signs are erected as herein provided at or near the entrance to any intersection, every driver of a vehicle and every operator of a passenger bus shall stop such vehicle or yield the right-of-way at such sign, except when directed to proceed by a police officer or traffic control signal.
(F) Emerging from alley or private driveway. The driver of a vehicle emerging from an alley, driveway, or building shall stop such vehicle immediately prior to driving onto a sidewalk or onto the sidewalk area extending across any alleyway, yielding the right-of-way to any pedestrian as may be necessary to avoid collision, and upon entering the roadway, shall yield the right-of-way to all vehicles approaching on said roadway.
(G) Obedience to signal indicating approach of railroad train.
(1) Whenever any person driving a vehicle approaches a railroad grade crossing under any of the circumstances stated in this section, the driver of such vehicle shall not proceed over said crossing until he or she can do so safely. The foregoing requirement shall apply when:
(a) A clearly visible electric or mechanical signal device gives warning of the immediate approach of a railroad train;
(b) A crossing gate is lowered or when a human flagger gives or continues to give a signal of the approach of passage of a railroad train; or
(c) An approaching railroad train is plainly visible and is in hazardous proximity to such crossing.
(2) No persons shall drive any vehicle through, around, or under any crossing gate or barrier at a railroad grade crossing while such gate or barrier is closed or is being opened or closed.
(Ord. 107, passed 5-18-1962) Penalty, see § 71.99