Pursuant to the 1976 Code of Laws of South Carolina, as amended, the Town Council shall have the power and is hereby authorized to:
(A) Regulate the operation and parking of vehicles within the corporate limits by the erection or placing of proper signs or markers indicating prohibited or limited parking, restricted speed areas, one-way streets, play streets, through or arterial streets, U turns, school zones, and other official traffic-control devices indicating the place or manner of operating or parking vehicles, including loading zones.
(B) Regulate the movement of pedestrians upon the streets and sidewalks by the erection or placement of proper signs or markers indicating the flow of pedestrian traffic.
(C) Mark off traffic lanes on streets and parts of streets indicating and directing the flow of traffic.
(D) Secure all necessary signs, markers or official traffic-control devices to be erected or placed on any street or part of a street. The existence of such signs, markers or official traffic-control devices at any place shall be prima facie evidence that such signs, markers or official traffic-control devices were erected or placed by and at the direction of the Council and in accordance with the provisions of this section.
('86 Code, § 18.104)