(A) The Chief of Police, with the approval of the Board of Trustees, may designate main traveled or through streets or highways by erecting, at the entrances thereto from intersecting streets or highways, stop or yield signs. All the signs shall be illuminated at night or so placed as to be illuminated by headlights of an approaching vehicle or by street lights.
(B) Except when directed to proceed by a police officer or traffic control signal, every driver of a vehicle approaching a stop intersection indicated by a stop sign shall come to a full stop at a clearly marked stop line, but if none, before entering the crosswalk on the near side of the intersection, or if none, then at a point nearest the intersecting roadway where the driver has a view of approaching traffic on the intersecting roadway, before entering the intersection. After having stopped, the driver shall yield the right- of-way to any vehicle which has entered, or is approaching the intersection from another street or highway, and shall not proceed into the intersection until certain that the intersecting roadway is free from oncoming traffic which may affect safe passage.
(C) When a yield right-of-way sign is in place at an intersection, the driver of a vehicle approaching the sign shall, in obedience to the sign, slow down to a speed reasonable for the existing conditions, or shall stop if necessary, and shall yield the right-of-way to any pedestrian legally crossing the roadway on which he or she is driving, and to any vehicle in the intersection or approaching on another street so closely as to constitute an immediate hazard. The driver, having so yielded, may proceed and the drivers of all other vehicles approaching the intersection shall yield to the vehicle so proceeding; provided, however, that if the driver is involved in a collision with a pedestrian in a crosswalk, or a vehicle in the intersection, after driving past a yield sign without stopping, the collision shall be deemed prima facie evidence of his or her failure to yield the right-of-way.
(1992 Code, § 12-1-41) (Ord. 31, § 15-27, passed 10-1-1975)