§ 34-4 PLACEMENT AND SPECIFICATIONS OF TRAFFIC-CONTROL DEVICES; ALTERING, DEFACING AND THE LIKE OF SIGNS OR STREET NAMES PROHIBITED.
   (A)   The Mayor and Council may, from time to time, request the state’s Department of Transportation (SCDOT) to place and maintain traffic-control devices upon the streets of the town, as deemed necessary, to regulate, warn or guide traffic in the town.
   (B)   All such traffic-control devices shall conform to the specifications of the SCDOT.
   (C)   Drivers of all vehicles shall abide by signals of traffic officers and all automatic and stationary signals.
   (D)   No person shall willfully, without lawful authority, attempt to or alter, deface, injure, knock down or remove any traffic-control device, sign, street name sign or any part thereof. In addition, any unauthorized person found in possession of any street sign or traffic-control device from the town shall be deemed in violation of this section.