§ 70.16 ESTABLISHMENT AND MAINTENANCE OF TRAFFIC-CONTROL DEVICES.

   The city shall establish and maintain all official traffic-control devices necessary within the city. All traffic-control devices, including signs, shall be employed to indicate one particular warning or regulation, shall be uniform, and as far as possible shall be placed uniformly. All traffic-control devices and signs shall conform to required state specifications.

(Prior Code, § 70.16)

§ 70.17 OBEDIENCE TO SIGNALS.

   (A)   It shall be unlawful for the driver of any vehicle to disobey the signal of any official traffic-control device placed in accordance with the provisions of this Traffic Code or of a traffic barrier or sign erected by any of the public departments or public utilities of the city, or any electric signal, gate, or watchperson at railroad crossings, unless otherwise directed by a police officer. However, the type and the right to or necessity for such barrier or sign must be approved by the city.

   (B)   Such sign, signal, marking, or barrier shall have the same authority as the personal direction of a police officer.

(Prior Code, § 70.17) Penalty, see § 70.99

§ 70.18 INTERFERENCE WITH SIGNALS.

   No person shall without authority attempt to or in fact alter, deface, injure, knock down, or remove any official control device or any railroad sign or signal, or any inscription, shield, or insignia thereon, or any part thereof.

(Prior Code, § 70.18) Penalty see § 70.99

§ 70.19 UNAUTHORIZED SIGNALS OR MARKINGS.

   (A)   It shall be unlawful for any person to place, maintain, or display on or in view of any street any unauthorized sign, signal, marking, or device which purports to be or is an imitation of or resembles an official traffic device or railroad sign or signal which attempts or purports to direct the movement of traffic, or which conceals or hides from view or interferes with the effectiveness of any official control device or any railroad sign or signal. No person shall place or maintain, nor shall any public authority permit on any street, any traffic sign or signal bearing any commercial advertising. Nothing in this section shall be construed as restricting any public department or public utility of the city in any emergency or temporarily from marking or erecting any traffic barrier or sign whose placing has been approved by the city.

   (B)   Every such prohibited sign, signal, or marking is declared to be a public nuisance and the city is empowered forthwith to remove it or cause it to be removed.

(Prior Code, § 70.19) Penalty, see § 70.99

§ 70.20 DEVICE TO BE LEGIBLE AND IN PROPER POSITION.

   No provision of this Traffic Code for which signs or any other traffic-control device is required shall be enforceable against an alleged violator if at the time and place of the alleged violation the required device was not in proper position and sufficiently legible to be seen by an ordinarily observant person.

(Prior Code, § 70.20)

§ 70.21 TEMPORARY DISREGARD OF DEVICES BY POLICE OFFICERS.

   In an emergency, any police officer may, at his or her discretion, disregard traffic-control lights or signals or established regulations in order to facilitate the movement of traffic.

(Prior Code, § 70.21)

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