(A) Enforcement. The city police are hereby authorized, empowered, and ordered to exercise all powers and duties, with relation to the management of street traffic, and to direct, control, stop, restrict, regulate, and, when necessary, temporarily divert, or exclude, in the interest of public safety, health, and convenience the movement of pedestrian, animal, and vehicular traffic of every kind in streets, parks, and on bridges. The driver of any vehicle shall stop upon the signal of any police officer.
(Neb. RS 60-683) (1973 Code, § 5-622)
(B) Refusal to obey. It shall be unlawful for any person to refuse, or fail to comply with, any lawful order, signal, or direction of a police officer.
(Neb. RS 60-680) (1973 Code, § 5-623)
(C) Traffic officers. The City Council or the city police may at any time detail officers, to be known as "traffic officers," at street intersections. All traffic officers shall be vested with the authority to regulate and control traffic at the intersections to which they are assigned. It shall be their duty to direct the movement of traffic and prevent congestion and accidents. It shall be unlawful for any person to violate any order, or signal, of any such traffic officer notwithstanding the directive of a stop sign, or signal device, which may have been placed at any such intersection.
(Neb. RS 60-680, 60-683, and 60-6,222) (1973 Code, § 5-624)
Penalty, see § 70.99