Whenever traffic is controlled by traffic-control signals exhibiting different colored lights, the following colors only shall be displayed and the lights shall indicate and apply to drivers of vehicles and pedestrians, as follows:
(A) Green:
(1) Vehicular traffic facing the signal may proceed straight through or turn right or left, unless a sign is erected to indicate otherwise, and shall yield to the right-of-way to oncoming traffic and other pedestrians lawfully within the intersection or an adjacent crosswalk at the time the signal is exhibited; and
(2) Pedestrians facing the signal may proceed across the roadway within any marked or unmarked crosswalk.
(B) Yellow:
(1) Vehicular traffic facing the signal is thereby warned that the red or stop signal shall be exhibited immediately thereafter and the vehicular traffic shall not enter or be in the process of crossing the intersection when the red or stop signal is exhibited; and
(2) No pedestrian facing the signal shall enter the roadway until the green signal is displayed.
(C) Red:
(1) Vehicular traffic facing the signal shall stop before entering the crosswalk on the near side of the intersection or, if none, then before entering the intersection, and shall remain standing until the green signal is displayed; however, if a sign is not erected prohibiting turns on red lights, the vehicles may turn right on red lights after coming to a complete stop; and
(2) No pedestrian facing the signal shall enter the roadway unless the green signal is displayed or unless authorized to do so by a pedestrian walk signal.
(D) Green with green arrow:
(1) Vehicular traffic facing the light may turn in the direction of the arrow without yielding the right-of-way; and
(2) Pedestrians shall not enter the intersection until after traffic has passed.
(E) In the event a traffic-control signal is erected and maintained at a place other than an intersection, the provisions of this section shall apply except as to those provisions by which their very nature can have no application. Any stop required shall be made at a sign or marking on the pavement indicating where the stop shall be made, but in the absence of any sign or marking the stop shall be made at the signal.
(Ord. passed 9-6-2005)