The Mayor or his authorized representative is hereby empowered to:
(a) Designate any street or highway as a through street or highway and require that all vehicles stop or yield the right of way as may be required before entering the same.
(b) Designate any intersection as a stop intersection and require all vehicles to stop at one or more entrances to such intersection.
(c) Designate any intersection as a yield intersection and require all vehicles to yield the right of way as required.
(d) Designate any street as a one-way street and require that all vehicles thereon be moved in one specific direction.
(e) Designate and mark lanes to be used by traffic moving in a particular direction regardless of the center line of the roadway.
(f) Erect signs directing slow-moving traffic to use a designated lane or allocating specified lanes to traffic moving in the same direction.
(g) Designate those portions of any street, where overtaking and passing other traffic or driving to the left of the center or center line of the roadway would be especially hazardous, by appropriate signs or markings on the street to indicate the beginning and end of such zones. Such zones may be marked by an auxiliary yellow line placed parallel and to the right of the normal center line or offset marked lane line.
(h) Place markers, buttons or signs within or adjacent to intersections and require that a specific course of direction be traveled by vehicles proceeding in lanes by either permitting, prohibiting or requiring turns at such intersections.
(i) Install traffic control devices, signals and signs at any location to regulate traffic.
(j) Establish safety zones, crosswalks, zones of quiet and play streets. Play streets shall be designated only in cases where it is necessary or expedient to do so in order to provide safe places in which the children or residents of the neighborhood may play and such streets shall be properly marked when so restricted. No person shall drive any vehicle upon a play street while it is so restricted except vehicles requiring access to or egress from premises not accessible except by such street.
(k) Close any street or portion thereof to vehicular traffic which is in the process of construction, reconstruction or repair.
(l) Determine the location of any necessary bus stops and taxicab stands.
(m) Determine the location and limiting hours of truck loading zones.
(n) Designate dangerous railroad crossings and erect stop signs thereat.
(o) Erect "No U Turn" signs at any location to prohibit a vehicle from being turned so as to proceed in the opposite direction.
(p) Regulate or prohibit the stopping, standing and parking of vehicles on streets, alleys or public property by erecting signs plainly indicating the prohibitions, restrictions or limitations.
(q) Designate individual parking spaces by markings, which may either be parallel or at a prescribed angle to the curb or edge of the roadway.
(r) Require the restriction or prohibition of right-hand or left-hand turns, or both, at Intersections.
(Ord. 38-72. Passed 9-14-72.)