(a) Whenever city council by ordinance designates a street or portion thereof as a through street, the commissioner of transportation, subject to the review and approval of the executive director of emergency management and communications where appropriate, shall place and maintain a stop sign on every street intersecting the through street unless traffic at any such intersection is controlled by traffic-control signals; provided, however, that at the intersection of a through street and a heavy-traffic street not so designated, stop signs shall be erected at the approaches of either or both of the streets as may be determined by the commissioner and the executive director upon the basis of an engineering and traffic study. The commissioner and the executive director are hereby authorized to determine and designate intersections where particular hazards exist upon other than through streets and to determine whether vehicles shall stop at one or more entrances to any such intersections and to erect a stop sign at every such place where a stop is required. The commissioner is also authorized to erect stop signs at marked crosswalks between intersections where in his judgment a stop is required to protect pedestrian traffic. Every stop sign shall be erected as near as practicable to the nearest line of the crosswalk on the near side of the intersection, or, if there is no crosswalk, then as close as practicable to the nearest line of the roadway.
(b) When stop signs are erected as herein provided, every operator of a vehicle shall stop the vehicle at the sign or at a clearly marked stop line before entering the nearest crosswalk, if any, or the intersection, except when directed to proceed by a police officer or traffic control aide.
(c) Any person violating this section shall be fined not less than $100.00 nor more than $300.00 for the first offense, not less than $500.00 nor more than $700 for the second offense and $1,000.00 for a third or any subsequent offense, and may also be required to perform reasonable community service.
(Added Coun. J. 7-12-90, p. 18634; Amend Coun. J. 12-11-91, p. 10832; Amend Coun. J. 9-9-98, p. 77383; Amend Coun. J. 11-6-02, p. 96501, § 4; Amend Coun. J. 12-4-02, p. 100729, § 4; Amend Coun. J. 12-7-05, p. 64870, § 1.9; Amend Coun. J. 2-7-07, p. 98206, § 1)