Sections:
6.16.010 Traffic control devices—Installation.
6.16.020 When traffic control devices required for enforcement.
6.16.030 Obedience to traffic control devices required.
6.16.040 Traffic signals—Installation.
6.16.050 Lane markings.
6.16.060 Distinctive roadway markings.
6.16.070 Traffic control devices—Removal, relocation and discontinuance authorized.
6.16.080 Traffic control devices—Hours of operation.
(a) The City Traffic Engineer shall have the power and duty to place and maintain or cause to be placed and maintained official traffic control devices when and as required to make effective the provisions of this title.
(b) Whenever the Vehicle Code requires for the effectiveness of any provision thereof that traffic control devices be installed to give notice to the public of the application of such law the City Traffic Engineer is hereby authorized to install or cause to be installed the necessary devices subject to any limitations or restrictions set forth in the law applicable thereto.
(c) The City Traffic Engineer may also place and maintain or cause to be placed and maintained such additional traffic control devices as he may deem necessary to regulate traffic or to guide or warn traffic, but he shall make such determination only upon the basis of traffic engineering principles and traffic investigations and in accordance with such standards, limitations and rules as may be set forth in this title or as may be determined by resolution of the legislative body of this city.
(Ord. 1 § 3420, added by Ord. 15; November 19, 1956)
No provision of the Vehicle Code or of this title for which signs are required shall be enforced against an alleged violator unless appropriate signs are in place and sufficiently legible to be seen by an ordinarily observant person, giving notice of such provisions of the traffic laws.
(Ord. 1 § 3421, added by Ord. 15; November 19, 1956)
The driver of any vehicle shall obey the instructions of any official traffic control device applicable thereto placed in accordance with this title unless otherwise directed by a police officer subject to the exceptions granted the driver of an authorized emergency vehicle when responding to emergency calls.
(Ord. 1 § 3422, added by Ord. 15; November 19, 1956)
(a) The City Traffic Engineer is hereby directed to install and maintain official traffic signals at those intersections and other places where traffic conditions are such as to require that the flow of traffic be alternately interrupted and released in order to prevent or relieve traffic congestion or to protect life or property from exceptional hazard.
(b) The City Traffic Engineer shall ascertain and determine the locations where such signals are required by resort to field observation, traffic counts, and other traffic information as may be pertinent and his determinations therefrom shall be made in accordance with those traffic engineering and safety standards and instructions set forth in the “Manual on Uniform Traffic Control Devices” published by the Superintendent of Documents, Washington, D. C., and/or in the Planning Manual of Instructions, Part 8, “Traffic,” issued by the Division of Highways of the State Department of Public Works.
(c) Whenever the City Traffic Engineer installs and maintains an official traffic signal at any intersection, he shall likewise erect and maintain at such intersection street name signs visible to the principal flow of traffic unless such street name signs have previously been placed and are maintained at any said intersection.
(Ord. 1 § 3423, added by Ord. 15; November 19, 1956)
The City Traffic Engineer is hereby authorized to mark center lines and lane lines upon the surface of the roadway to indicate the course to be traveled by vehicles and may place signs temporarily designating lanes to be used by traffic moving in a particular direction, regardless of the center line of the highway.
(Ord. 1 § 3424, added by Ord. 15; November 19, 1956)
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