A. The traffic committee shall be the internal affairs committee of the city council or such other committee of councilmembers which is designated by the city council to adopt the vehicle and traffic regulations hereinafter authorized by this Section.
B. The authority of the traffic committee adopt vehicle and traffic regulations shall include and be limited to authority to:
1. Designate or abolish prohibited parking areas.
2. Designate or abolish angle parking areas.
3. Designate or abolish police parking zones.
4. Designate or abolish bicycle parking zones.
5. Designate those streets upon which the use of commercial vehicles is prohibited.
6. Designate those street intersections in which the movement of traffic will be controlled by yield signs.
7. Designate those street intersections in which the movement of traffic will be controlled by stop signs.
8. Designate or abolish truck routes.
9. Designate or abolish limited curb parking zones.
10. Designate or abolish limited time parking areas.
11. Prohibit parking on the left hand side of one-way streets and on one-way portions of divided streets.
12. Prohibit parking on both sides of a narrow street or one side of a street when required by the street design criteria and improvement standards adopted by or pursuant to this code.
C. When requested by the city manager or any member of the city council, the traffic committee shall also have authority to review any vehicle and traffic regulation adopted by the director or fire chief in the manner hereinafter authorized by this chapter and either affirm the regulation, modify or amend the regulation, or reject or repeal the regulation. In addition, at the request of the city manager or any member of the city council, the traffic committee may consider and adopt any vehicle or traffic regulation within the authority of the director or fire chief to adopt which the director or fire chief has failed or refused to adopt.
D. A vehicle or traffic regulation adopted or amended by the traffic committee shall become effective and be implemented no earlier than the 30th day following the date it was adopted unless the traffic committee finds that the regulation was adopted or amended to address a safety hazard constituting an emergency, in which case the regulation shall become effective and be implemented immediately following its adoption.
(Ord. 2119, Ord. 2364 §103)