(A) (1) The City Manager shall have the duty of and is hereby authorized to erect or install upon, over, along or beside any highway, street or alley signs, signals and markings, or cause the same to be erected, installed or placed in accordance with this subchapter and consistent with the manual. The traffic-control devices shall be installed immediately, or as soon as the specific device, sign or signal can be produced.
(2) Whenever the City Manager has erected and installed any official traffic-control device, signal or sign at any location in the city, or has caused the same to be done under his/her direction in obedience to this subchapter and the manual, he/she shall thereafter file a report with the City Secretary in writing and signed officially by the City Manager, stating the type of traffic-control device, sign or signal, and when and where the same was erected and installed. The City Secretary shall file and maintain the report of the City Manager among the official papers of the office of the City Secretary.
('78 Code, § 16-61)
(B) It being unlawful for any person other than the Street Superintendent, acting pursuant to an ordinance of the city, to install or cause to be installed any signal, sign or device purporting to direct the use of the streets or the activities on those streets of pedestrians, vehicles, motor vehicles or animals, proof, in any prosecution for a violation of this subchapter or any traffic ordinance of the city, that any traffic-control device, sign, signal or marking was actually in place on any street shall constitute prima facie evidence that the same was installed by the Street Superintendent pursuant to the authority of this subchapter and of the ordinance directing the installation of the device, signal or marking.
('78 Code, § 16-62)
(Ord. 408, passed 4-28-80) Penalty, see § 70.99