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Section
80.07 Traffic Control Devices – Powers and Duties of the Department.
80.07.1 Traffic Control Devices and Other Signs – Remove or Discontinuance.
80.07.2 Traffic Control Devices – Hours of Operation.
80.08 Installation of Traffic Signals.
80.08.2 Department to Install Traffic Markings.
80.08.3 Removal of Unauthorized Signs, Signals, and Lights.
80.08.4 Flashing Lights – Interference with Traffic Signals.
80.08.5 Off-center Lane Movement – Establishment.
80.08.6 Temporary Traffic Controls.
80.08.7 Charges for Providing Traffic Control and for Installation and Relocation of Parking and Traffic Control Devices.
80.10 Signs Required.
80.11 Right Turns at Signal Controlled Intersections.
80.12 Double Lines.
80.13 Speed Zoning on Other than State Highways.
80.13.1 Speed Zoning on Streets Adjacent to a Children’s Playground.
(a) Authorized Installations. Whenever by any provision of this chapter, the Department is authorized to install any traffic control devices, and such authority is made dependent upon a determination of the need therefor, it shall be the duty of the Department to make such determination only upon the basis of traffic engineering principles and traffic investigations and in accordance with such standards, limitations and rules as are hereinafter in this chapter laid down with reference to the particular kind of installation under consideration.
(b) Directed Installations. It shall be the duty of the Department to install traffic control devices at a particular location, whenever directed to do so by any provision of this chapter or by any ordinance of this city.
(c) Installations Essential to Effectiveness of Traffic Laws. Whenever any traffic laws of this state, or any traffic regulations set forth in this chapter, requires for its effectiveness that traffic control devices be installed to give notice to the public of the operation or application of such law or regulations, the Department is hereby authorized to install the necessary devices, subject to any limitations or restrictions set forth in the law or regulation involved.
(d) Additional Installations. Subject to the requirements of Subsection (a) of this section, the Department is hereby authorized to install such additional traffic control devices, not expressly provided for in this chapter, as it determines are necessary to regulate, warn, or guide traffic, and to remove such devices when it determines that they are no longer necessary to regulate, warn, or guide traffic. In addition to traffic control devices, the Department is authorized to install certain signs relating to public safety, providing such signs are approved by the Department of Public Works as provided in Section 28.04 and provided further that no such signs shall conflict with or detract from any traffic control devices. The Department is also authorized to remove any such sign. (Amended by Ord. No. 156,852, Eff. 8/1/82.)
(e) Authority of the Department Exclusive. The Department of Transportation shall have the exclusive authority to install, place, maintain or remove any traffic control device or other type of sign in the City of Los Angeles except as provided in this Chapter. The Department of Transportation may delegate its authority to another city agency to install or remove temporary no parking signs. For purposes of this section, a temporary no parking sign is a sign marked “temporary” with an effective period not to exceed 30 days. (Amended by Ord. No. 183,301, Eff. 12/5/14.)
(f) “Install.” Authority to install, as the term is used in this chapter, includes authority to “cause to be installed.”
(g) “Remove.” Authority to remove, as the term is used in this chapter, includes authority to “cause to be removed.”
The Department is hereby authorized to remove, relocate or discontinue the operation of any traffic control device, or sign, not specifically required by State law or by this chapter whenever it shall determine in any particular case that the conditions which warranted or required the installation no longer exists or obtain. (Title and section, Amended by Ord. No. 156,852, Eff. 8/1/82.)
The Department shall determine, in accordance with traffic conditions prevailing at any particular location, the hours and days during which any official traffic control device shall be in operation or be in effect. (Amended by Ord. No. 134,523, Eff. 7/17/67.)
(Amended by Ord. No. 134,523, Eff. 7/17/67.)
(a) The Department shall 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 Department is hereby authorized to ascertain and determine the locations where such signals are required by resort to field observations, traffic counts and other traffic information as may be pertinent, and its determinations therefrom shall be made in accordance with those traffic engineering and safety standards and instructions set forth in the California Traffic Manual. (Amended by Ord. No. 151,833, Eff. 2/10/79, Oper. 2/25/79.)
The Department shall mark center lines, lane lines, symbols and words and install raised devices or other devices upon the surface of the pavement to indicate the course to be travelled by vehicles at any place where the Department determines that such markings or devices are necessary for the orderly and safe movement of traffic. Such markings and installations shall be made consistent with state law and in accordance with those standards and methods set forth in the California Traffic Manual. (Amended by Ord. No. 151,833, Eff. 2/10/79, Oper. 2/25/79.)
The Department may, without notice, remove every unofficial sign, signal or device placed, maintained or displayed upon any City street contrary to the provisions of the Vehicle Code or of this chapter. (Amended by Ord. No. 156,852, Eff. 8/1/82.)
(Amended by Ord. No. 146,628, Eff. 11/25/74.)
No person shall erect or maintain any electric sign or similar device that interferes with the visibility of any traffic control or warning signal.
This section shall not apply to lights used to identify public fire alarm boxes.
All flashing lights shall comply with existing traffic codes pertaining to the interference with traffic signals.
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