(A) The driver of any vehicle shall obey the instructions of any official traffic-control device applicable thereto placed or held in accordance with the provisions of this subchapter, unless otherwise directed by a police officer, subject to the exceptions granted the driver of an authorized emergency vehicle.
(B) It is unlawful for any person to leave the roadway and travel across private property to avoid an official traffic-control device.
(C) No provision of this chapter for which official traffic-control devices are required shall be enforced against an alleged violator if at the time and place of the alleged violation an official device is not in proper position and sufficiently legible to be seen by an ordinarily observant person. Whenever a particular section does not state that official traffic-control devices are required, that section shall be effective even though no devices are erected or in place.
(D) Whenever any official traffic-control device is placed or held in position approximately conforming to the requirements of this chapter and purports to conform to the lawful requirements pertaining to the device, the device shall be presumed to have been so placed or held by the official act or direction of lawful authority, and comply with the requirements of this title, unless the contrary shall be established by competent evidence.
(E) The driver of a vehicle approaching a traffic-control signal on which not signal light facing the vehicle is illuminated shall stop before entering the intersection in accordance with rules applicable in making a stop at a stop sign.
(1990 Code, § 28-53) (Ord. 79-690, passed 9-17-1979) Penalty, see § 70.999
Statutory reference:
Similar provisions, see ILCS Ch. 625, Act 5, § 11-305