(A) The Mayor, except as otherwise provided by this chapter and except as otherwise directed from time to time by the Council, shall have the power and is hereby authorized to regulate the operation and parking of vehicles within the corporate limits of the town by the erection or placing of proper signs or markers indicating prohibited or limited parking; angle parking; the parking of buses, trucks and other vehicles of various weights; U-turns; turning at intersections; hazardous intersections; school zones; loading and unloading zones; quiet zones, traffic- control signals exhibiting colored lights; and other signs or markers indicating the place and manner of operating or parking vehicles in the town.
(B) The Mayor shall also have the power and is hereby authorized to regulate the movement of pedestrians upon the streets and sidewalks of the town by the erection or placing of proper signs or markers indicating the flow of pedestrian traffic.
(C) The Mayor shall also have the power to designate bus stops and to erect signs prohibiting the parking of vehicles other than buses at those stops.
(D) The Mayor is further empowered and authorized to mark off traffic lanes on streets and parts of streets indicating and directing the flow of traffic.
(E) The Mayor shall further have power and is hereby authorized to secure all the necessary signs, signals or markers to be erected or placed on any street or part of a street.
(F) The existence of these signs, signals or markers at any place within the corporate limits of the town shall be prima facie evidence that the signs, signals or markers were erected or placed by and at the direction of the Mayor in accordance with the provisions of this section.
(1997 Code, § 66-2)
Statutory reference:
Powers of local governments as to motor vehicles, see VA Code, §§ 46.2-1300 et seq.