(A) The City Traffic Engineer shall place and maintain or cause to be placed and maintained official traffic control devices when and as required under this title and other traffic ordinances of the city to make effective the provisions of this title and those ordinances.
(B) When the Vehicle Code requires, for the effectiveness of any provisions thereof, that traffic control devices by installed to give notice to the public of the application of the law, the City Traffic Engineer is hereby authorized to install or cause to be installed the necessary devices subject to any limitations or restrictions set forth in the law applicable thereto.
(C) The City Traffic Engineer may also place and maintain or cause to be placed and maintained additional traffic control devices as he or she may deem necessary to regulate traffic or to guide or warn traffic but he or she shall make the determination only upon the basis of traffic engineering principals and traffic investigations and in accordance with the standards, limitations and rules as may be set forth in this title or other traffic ordinances of the city or as may be determined by ordinance or resolution of the legislative body of the city.
('61 Code, § 13.20) (Ord. 653, passed - - )