(A) The streets and avenues referred to in this schedule are declared to be through or preferential streets for the purpose of regulating traffic on or crossing the same and every operator of a vehicle or other conveyance traveling on any street or roadway intersecting any through street. Operators/drivers shall bring their vehicle to a full complete stop at the place where the street meets the prolongation of the nearest property line of a through street, subject, however, to the direction of any official traffic-control sign or signal or the directions of any police officer at the intersection.
(B) The operator of any vehicle who has come to a full stop as required above, on entering the through street, as well as operator of vehicles on a through street, shall be subject to the usual right-of-way rule prescribed by state law governing the meeting of vehicles at street or highway intersections.
(C) The Common Council's Committee on Public Safety is authorized to place and maintain or cause to be place of maintained on each and every street intersecting a through street as designated above, and at or near the property line of the through street, appropriate signs on or near the street (and in addition thereto may place and maintain any appropriate device or mark in or near the highway) signs, devices or marks to bear the word "STOP" or the legend "STOP THRU STREET" or the legend "STOP THRU STREET, POLICE ORDERS."
(D) It shall be unlawful for the operator of any vehicle to disobey any signs, signals or devices erected by order of the Committee of the Common Council.
(1982 Code, § 71.04) (Ord. 8-1931, passed 9-22-1931)
(E) The following streets and parts of streets are declared to constitute through streets.
Street
|
Description |
National Avenue | - |
Forest Avenue | - |
Walnut Street | Between National Avenue and Logan Street |
Meridian Street | Between National Avenue and Compton Street |
Hendrix Street | Between Alabama and Meridian Streets, both inclusive, except at Forest Avenue |
(1982 Code, Schedule X) (Ord. 24-1966, passed - -)