(A) Authority to install traffic control devices. The Town Marshal shall place and maintain traffic control signs, signals and devices when and as required under the traffic ordinances of this town to make effective the provisions of said ordinances and may place and maintain such additional traffic-control devices as he or she may deem necessary to regulate traffic under the traffic ordinances of this town or under state law or to guide or warn traffic.
(B) Manual and specifications for traffic control devices. All traffic control signs, signals and devices shall conform to the manual and specifications approved by the State Highway Department or resolution adopted by the legislative body of this town. All signs and signals required hereunder shall so far as practicable be uniform as to type and location throughout the town. All traffic control devices so erected and not inconsistent with the provisions of state law or this chapter shall be official traffic control devices.
(C) Obedience to official traffic control devices. The driver of any vehicle shall obey the instructions of any official traffic control device applicable thereto, placed in accordance with the traffic ordinances of this town, unless otherwise directed by a police officer, subject to the exceptions granted the driver of an authorized emergency vehicle in this chapter.
(D) When traffic devices required for enforce- ment purposes. No provision of this title for which signs or markings are required shall be enforced against an alleged violator, if at the time and place of the alleged violation an official sign is not in proper position and sufficiently legible to be seen by an ordinarily observant person. Whenever a particular section does not state that signs are required, such section shall be effective even though no signs are erected or in place.
(E) Display of unauthorized signs, signals or markings.
(1) No person shall place, maintain or display over, upon or in view of any highway any unauthorized sign, signal, marking or device which purports to be or is an imitation of or resembles an official traffic control device or which attempts to direct the movement of traffic or which hides from view or interferes with the effectiveness of any official traffic control device or any sign or signal.
(2) No person shall place or maintain, nor shall any public authority permit upon any highway any traffic sign or signal bearing thereon any commercial advertising.
(3) This section shall not be deemed to prohibit the erection upon private property, adjacent to highways, of signs giving useful directional information and of a type that cannot be mistaken for official signs.
(4) Every such prohibited sign, signal or making is declared to be a public nuisance and the authority having jurisdiction over the highway is empowered to remove the same or cause it to be removed without notice.
(F) Interference with official traffic control devices or signs and signals. No person shall without lawful authority attempt to or in fact alter, deface, injure, knock down or remove any official traffic control device or any inscription, shield or insignia thereon or any part thereof.
(G) Town Marshal to designate crosswalks and establish safety zone. The Town Marshal is authorized:
(1) To designate and maintain by appropriate devices, marks or lines upon the surface of the roadways, crosswalks at intersections where in his or her opinion there is particular danger to pedestrians crossing the roadway and at such other places as he or she may deem necessary;
(2) To establish safety zones of such kind and character and at such places as he or she may deem necessary for the protection of pedestrians, along with the approval of the Town Board.
(H) Traffic lanes.
(1) The Town Marshal is authorized to mark traffic lanes upon the roadway of any street or highway where a regular alignment of traffic is necessary.
(2) Where such traffic lanes have been marked, it shall be unlawful for the operator of any vehicle to fail or refuse to keep such vehicle within the boundaries of any such lane except when lawfully passing another vehicle or preparatory to making a lawful turning movement.
(I) Authority to place and obedience to turning markers.
(1) The Town Marshal is authorized to place markers, buttons or signs within or adjacent to intersections indicating the course to be traveled by vehicles at such intersections and such course to be traveled as so indicated may conform to or be other than as prescribed by law or obedience.
(2) When authorized markers, buttons or other indications are placed within an intersection indicating the course to be traveled by vehicles, no driver of a vehicle shall disobey the directions of such indications.
(J) Authority to place restricted turn signs.
(1) The Town Marshal is authorized to determine those intersections at which drivers of vehicles shall not make a right, left or U-turn and shall place proper signs at such intersections. The making of such turns may be prohibited between certain hours of any day and permitted at other hours, in which event the same shall be plainly indicated on the signs, or they may be removed when such turns are permitted.
(2) Whenever authorized signs are erected indicating that no right or left or U-turn is permitted, no driver of a vehicle shall disobey the directions of any such sign.
(K) Limitations on turning around. The driver of any vehicle shall not turn such vehicle so as to proceed in the opposite direction upon any street in a business district and shall not upon any other street so turn a vehicle unless such movement can be made in safety and without interfering with other traffic.
(`77 Code, § 30.02) Penalty, see § 70.99