The City Council shall regulate or entirely prohibit traffic upon any street or portion thereof, and when regulated or prohibited, the Street Department shall place suitable signs, signals or other devices upon the streets to indicate the regulation or prohibition. The regulation or prohibition of traffic contemplated in this section shall be undertaken by and through the creation of the Traffic Control Device Committee, consisting of the City Engineer, Police Chief, Streets Superintendent and City Administrator, which shall be responsible for performing the following duties.
(A) The Traffic Control Device Committee shall be responsible for placement and maintenance of traffic control signs, signals and devices when and as required under the traffic ordinances of this city, to make effective the provisions of such ordinances and may place and maintain such additional traffic control devices, either temporary or permanent as may be necessary to regulate traffic under the traffic ordinances of this city or under state law to guide or warn traffic; may cause traffic control devices to be tested under actual conditions of traffic; shall conduct engineering investigations of traffic conditions and conduct engineering analysis of traffic accidents and to devise remedial measures therefore in the city; and shall approve the installation of all street signs and traffic signals, and where traffic requirements dictate, initiate their installation.
(B) The Traffic Control Device Committee shall report to the Public Property, Safety and Works Committee of the City Council quarterly on traffic regulation or prohibition requests considered by the Traffic Control Device Committee and the actions taken on those request. The Public Property, Safety and Works Committee of the City Council reserves the right to review and hear appeals on actions taken by the Traffic Control Device Committee.
(Prior Code, § 70.070) (Ord. 98-27, passed 7-20-1998; Ord. 06-16, passed 5-1-2006)