(A) Whenever any ordinance of the city designates and describes a through street, it shall be the duty of the city’s Traffic Commission to place and maintain a stop sign on each and every street intersecting the through street or that portion thereof described and designated as a through street by an ordinance of the city.
(B) The city’s Traffic Commission is authorized to determine and designate intersections where particular hazards exist upon other than through streets, and to determine whether vehicles shall stop at one or more entrances to any stop intersection, and shall erect a stop signal every place a stop is required. In the event the Traffic Commission determines that reduced speed rather than stop is adequate for safe operation of any intersection, it shall determine the safe speed by engineering investigation, and shall erect signs upon the approach to the intersection, giving notice of the speed.
(C) (1) Every stop sign shall bear the word “STOP” in letters not less than 6 inches in height, shall be provided with reflector buttons, or, shall be self-illuminated at night.
(2) Every stop sign shall be located as near as practicable at the proper line of the street at the entrance to which the stop must be made, or at the nearest line of the crosswalk, or at a limit line indicated by the city’s Traffic Commission.
(D) The city’s Traffic Commission is authorized to determine and designate intersections where particular hazards exist upon other than through streets and to determine whether vehicles shall yield the right-of-way at 1 or more entrances to any intersection and shall erect a “yield right-of-way” sign every place where required.
(E) (1) Every yield right-of-way sign shall bear the words YIELD RIGHT-OF-WAY in letters not less than 6 inches in height, and shall be provided with reflector buttons, or, shall be self-illuminated at night.
(2) Every yield right-of-way sign shall be located as near as practicable at the proper line of the street at the entrance to which the yield right-of-way must be made, or at the nearest line of the crosswalk, or at a limit line indicated by the city’s Traffic Commission.
(1979 Code, § 70.26) (Ord. 1477, passed 8-2-1950; Am. Ord. 1564, passed 7-8-1954) Penalty, see § 70.999
Statutory reference:
Stop signs, see I.C. 9-21-4-11