(A) The Board of Public Safety, by and with the written advice of the City Traffic Engineer, is empowered:
(1) To make regulations necessary to make effective the provisions of this Traffic Code.
(2) To make regulations to carry out its delegated authority hereunder.
(3) To make temporary or experimental regulations to cover emergency or special conditions.
(a) No such temporary or experi- mental resolution shall remain in force for more than 60 days plus one additional 60-day extension on written confirmation by the Board of Public Safety; and, on resolution of the Common Council, one further extension of 30 days may be provided; nor shall the streets, alleys, public ways or territories designated in a temporary or experimental regulation be subject to an extension of the same temporary or experimental regulation or one substantially the same or similar thereto, with respect to locale, other than as provided in this section without the consent and approval of the Common Council.
(b) All regulations of the Board of Public Safety shall be adopted by such Board by formal resolution, which resolution shall recite the written advice of the City Traffic Engineer, and the provision of this chapter to be made effective by such regulation, the section of this chapter under which delegated authority is carried out or the emergency or special condition requiring the temporary or experimental regulation provided therein, as the case may be.
(c) Every such resolution shall be permanently enrolled and recorded by such Board in a special, permanently bound book provided by such Board for such purpose, which book shall be open to public inspection.
(d) Copies of each such resolution and written confirmation of any extension, duly certified by the secretary of such Board, shall be delivered to the City Traffic Engineer, Chief of Police, City Attorney, City Clerk and the President of the Common Council, respectively, within 48 hours after the adoption thereof.
(e) Any resolution of the Common Council granting an extension thereof shall be delivered to the City Traffic Engineer, Chief of Police, City Attorney and the President of the Common Council, respectively, within 48 hours of the grant of any such extension.
(B) The Board of Public Safety shall have the authority to:
(1) Place and maintain traffic-control signs, signals and devices when and as required to make effective the provisions of this chapter or other traffic ordinances of this city, or to facilitate the movement or promote the safety of traffic at an intersection, and to place and maintain such additional traffic-control devices as it may deem necessary to regulate traffic under state law or to warn traffic, subject to the provisions of § 70.32(B) as to traffic-control signals.
(2) Authorize or designate authorized emergency vehicles as defined in § 70.01.
(3) Establish play streets in accordance with § 70.17(A).
(4) Establish speed zones in parks in accordance with § 71.27.
(5) Designated “yield” intersections in accordance with § 71.15.
(6) Determine angle parking locations in accordance with § 72.02(A).
(7) Restrict parking at schools in accordance with § 72.08.
(8) Restrict parking near intersections in accordance with § 72.22.
(9) Designate curb loading zones in accordance with § 72.56.
(10) Designate bus and taxi stands in accordance with § 72.59.
('74 Code, § 17-4) (Ord. S-185-85, passed 10-8-85)