(A) The Council, with reference to highways under its jurisdiction, may designate through highways and erect stop signs at specified entrances thereto or may designate any intersection as a stop intersection and erect like signs at one or more entrances to such intersection.
(B) Every such sign shall bear the word “Stop” in letters not less than six inches in height and such sign shall, at nighttime, be rendered luminous by steady or flashing internal illumination, by a fixed floodlight projected on the face of the sign or by efficient reflecting elements on the face of the sign.
(C) Every stop sign shall be erected as near as practicable to the nearest line of the crosswalk on the near side of the roadway.
(D) Every driver of a vehicle and every motorman of a streetcar approaching a stop sign shall stop before entering the crosswalk on the near side of the intersection or, in the event there is no crosswalk, shall stop at a clearly marked stop line, but if none, then at the point nearest the intersecting highway where the driver has a view of approaching traffic on the intersecting highway before entering the intersection except when directed to proceed by a police officer or traffic-control signal.
(1991 Code, § 19-157) (Ord. passed 7-19-1979) Penalty, see § 72.999