(A) Establishment and maintenance of traffic-control devices. The town may establish and maintain official traffic-control devices necessary within the town. 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.
(B) Obedience to signals.
(1) 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 town, or any electric signal, or watchman 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 town.
(2) The sign, signal, marking or barrier shall have the same authority as the personal direction of a police officer.
(C) Interference with signals. It shall be unlawful for any person without authority to 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 an part thereof.
(D) Unauthorized signals or markings.
(1) It shall be unlawful for any person to place, maintain or display on or in view of any street any unauthorized sign, signal or marking or device which purports to be, 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 containing any commercial advertising. Nothing in this section shall be construed as restricting any public department or public utility of the town in any emergency or temporarily from marking or erecting any traffic barrier or sign whose placing has been approved by the town.
(2) Every such prohibited sign, signal or marking is declared to be a public nuisance and the town is empowered forthwith to remove it or cause it to be removed.
(Ord. 2013-19, passed 11-18-2013) Penalty, see § 70.99