(A) The owner, operator, driver, or person in charge of any vehicle used, propelled, or driven upon the streets, avenues, alleys, or public grounds of the city shall conform to and observe the following rules and regulations of this traffic code.
(B) The governing body shall, by resolution, determine and designate the character or type of all official traffic signs and signals, all such signs and signals to be uniform throughout the city, as far as is practicable; provided that all official traffic signs and signals now erected and in operation are hereby designated official traffic signs and signals.
(C) Subject to this selection, the Chief of Police is hereby authorized, and as to those signs and signals required hereunder, it shall be his or her duty to place and maintain, or cause to be placed and maintained, all official traffic signs and signals.
(D) It shall be unlawful for any person to be seen by an ordinarily observant person.
(E) It shall be unlawful for any person to willfully deface, injure, move, obstruct, or interfere with any official traffic sign or signal. It shall be unlawful for any person to place, maintain, or to display upon or in view of any street any unofficial sign, signal, or device which purports to be, or is an imitation of or resembles any official traffic sign or signal, or which attempts to direct the movement of traffic. Every such prohibited sign, signal, or device is hereby declared to be a public nuisance, and the Chief of Police is hereby empowered to remove the same, or cause it to be removed, without notice.
(F) Every motor vehicle shall be provided with adequate brakes in good working order and sufficient to control such motor vehicle at all times when the same is in use, and a suitable bell, horn, or other device for signaling.
(Ord. 144, passed 8-2-1920; Ord. 194 passed 9-14-1942) Penalty, see § 70.99