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(A) It shall be unlawful for the driver of any vehicle to disobey the signal of any official traffic-control device placed in accordance with the provisions of this traffic code or of a traffic barrier or sign erected by any of the public departments or public utilities of the city, or any electric signal, gate or watchman at railroad crossings, unless otherwise directed by a police officer. However, the type and the right to or necessity for such barrier or sign must be approved by the city.
(B) Such sign, signal, marking or barrier shall have the same authority as the personal direction of a police officer.
(1992 Code, § 70.17) Penalty, see § 70.99
No person shall without authority attempt to or in fact alter, deface, injure, knock down or remove any official control device or any railroad sign or signal, or any inscription, shield or insignia thereon, or any part thereof.
(1992 Code, § 70.18) Penalty, see § 70.99
(A) It shall be unlawful for any person to place, maintain or display on or in view of any street any unauthorized sign, signal, marking or device which purports to be or is an imitation of or resembles an official traffic device or railroad sign or signal which attempts or purports to direct the movement of traffic, or which conceals or hides from view or interferes with the effectiveness of any official control device or any railroad sign or signal. No person shall place or maintain, nor shall any public authority permit on any street, any traffic sign or signal any commercial advertising. Nothing in this section shall be construed as restricting any public department or public utility of the city in any emergency or temporarily from marking or erecting any traffic barrier or sign whose placing has been approved by the city.
(B) Every such prohibited sign, signal or marking is declared to be a public nuisance and the city is empowered forthwith to remove it or cause it to be removed.
(1992 Code, § 70.19) Penalty, see § 70.99
No provision of this traffic code for which signs or any other traffic-control device is required shall be enforceable against an alleged violator if at the time and place of the alleged violation the required device was not in proper position and sufficiently legible to be seen by an ordinarily observant person.
(1992 Code, § 70.20)
Fines and penalties for moving violations within the city and upon the city streets shall be consistent with and, accordingly, the same as those fines and penalties as may be established and set by state statute. All persons being issued a citation for any such violations shall be cited to the County District Court.
(1992 Code, § 70.99)