§ 71.001 AUTHORITY TO INSTALL TRAFFIC CONTROL DEVICES.
   (A)   The corporate authority shall place and maintain official traffic control devices when and as required under the traffic ordinance of this village to make effective the provisions of said ordinance, and may place and maintain such additional official traffic control devices as it may deem necessary to regulate, warn or guide traffic under the traffic ordinance of this village or under state law. All signs and signals established by direction of the corporate authorities shall conform to the Illinois State Manual of Uniform Traffic Control Devices for Streets and Highways.
   (B)   The corporate authority, with reference to highways under its jurisdiction, may designate through highways and erect stop signs or yield signs at specified entrance thereto, or may designate any intersection as a stop intersection or as a yield intersection and erect stop signs or yield signs at one or more entrances to such intersection. Every stop sign and yield sign shall be located as near as practicable to the nearest line of the crosswalk on the near side of the intersection or, if there is no crosswalk, then as close as practicable to the nearest line of the intersecting roadway.
(Ord. 306, passed 12-7-1970)