305.02 POWERS OF TRAFFIC COMMISSION.

   (a)   The Traffic Commission is empowered to promulgate and enforce traffic regulations for the control of vehicular and pedestrian traffic within the limits of the City.

   (b)   In the promulgation of any traffic regulation, the Traffic Commission shall first make such regulation in the form of a temporary regulation for the purpose of testing such traffic-control device or regulation under actual conditions of traffic, and such experimental and temporary rule shall remain in force for a period of ninety days.

   (c)   At the next regularly scheduled meeting of Council, following the enactment of such temporary rule or regulation, the Traffic Commission shall notify Council, by written communication, of the enactment and scope of such rule or regulation.

   (d)   Within the ninety-day temporary period, Council shall consider such temporary rule or regulation, and express its formal disapproval of such rule by informal resolution, directed to the Service-Safety Director as Chairman of the Traffic Commission, and on such notice of disapproval, such rule or regulation shall not be made permanent or effective on the expiration of the ninety-day test period.

   (e)   If Council approves such rule or regulation, or if Council takes no action thereon within the ninety-day period such rule shall become effective as a permanent police and traffic regulation, on the completion of the following procedure. The Service-Safety Director shall maintain in his office in the Municipal Building a book to be known as the "Traffic Laws and Regulations of the City of Findlay, Ohio." All regulations and rules made in accordance with the foregoing sections, in order to be made permanently effective, shall be set forth in full in such book, shall be attested to by the signature of the Service-Safety Director, and shall also contain the effective date of such rule or regulation. Such rule or regulation shall be published in a newspaper of general circulation within the City once a week for two consecutive weeks. All rules or regulations for which signs are required shall not be enforceable against any alleged violator until such signs are in a proper position and sufficiently legible to be seen by an ordinarily observant person.

   (f)   All rules or regulations placed in effect by this section shall be subject to review and revocation by Council.

(1979 Code 80.02)