(A) School crossing signals shall be erected at the following locations: if such locations are under the jurisdiction of the State Department of Public Works and Buildings, the erection of such signals shall be subject to the approval of said Department: on Illinois State Highway Route #17 at intersection of Fifth and High Streets in the city.
(B) SCHOOL CROSSING SIGNAL means a permanently mounted electrically operated signal device equipped with two-way, two color (red and yellow) signal heads, together with a diamond-shaped, single-faced sign reading “School Crossing”, by which at predetermined times and when actuated by push-button, traffic is directed to stop so as to permit school children to cross the street or highway safely.
(C) Whenever the red lens of a school crossing signal is illuminated by rapid intermittent flashes, drivers of vehicles shall stop before entering the nearest crosswalk at an intersection or at a limit line when marked or, if none, then before entering the intersection, and pedestrians within or entering the crosswalk at either edge of the roadway shall have the right-of-way over vehicles so stopped. Drivers of vehicles having so yielded the right-of-way to pedestrians entering or within the nearest crosswalk at an intersection may proceed, but shall also yield the right-of-way to pedestrians within any other crosswalk at the intersection. If in the event a school crossing signal is erected and maintained at a place other than an intersection, the provisions of this section also shall be applicable, except as to provisions which by their nature can have to application.
(D) The school crossing stop signal shall be automatically timed so as to permit operation only during regularly scheduled school crossing periods, and that the signals are not to be operated during special events which occur outside of normal school hours, and that the signals shall be switched off manually at the beginning of all vacation or holiday periods other than normal weekends during the school term, and shall not be switched on until the end of the vacation or holiday period.
(Prior Code, § 20-3-39) Penalty, see § 10.99