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A. The town engineer or his or her designee is hereby authorized to determine those intersections where drivers of vehicles shall not make a right, left or u turn and shall have proper signs placed at those intersections. The making of those turns may be prohibited between certain hours of any day and permitted at other hours, if the limitations are clearly indicated on the signs or if the signs are removed when the turns are permitted.
B. 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 the sign.
Ordinance 2005.22 rewrote the last sentence of paragraph A
A. The council shall by resolution designate any streets or alleys which are to be limited to one-way traffic.
B. When any resolution of the council designates any one-way street or alley, the town shall place and maintain signs giving notice of it, and no such regulation shall be effective unless the signs are in place. Signs indicating the direction of lawful traffic movement shall be placed at every intersection where movement of traffic in the opposite direction is prohibited.
A. The council shall by resolution designate through streets, intersections where stops are required, and intersections where vehicles shall yield the right of way.
B. When any resolution of the council shall designate any through street or intersection where vehicles are to stop or yield the right of way, the town engineer or his designee shall erect and maintain the appropriate signs at every location where a vehicle must stop or yield the right of way.
C. Whenever any laws of the town designate and describe a through street, it shall be the duty of the town to place and maintain a stop sign on each and every street intersecting the through street or intersecting that portion of it described and designated as such by the laws of the town.
Whenever traffic signs are erected as provided in this title, every driver of a vehicle shall obey the signs unless directed to proceed by the chief of police, a member of the police department or a traffic control signal. No driver shall drive upon or through any private property such as a gas station, vacant lot or similar property to avoid obedience to any regulation included in this title.
A. No procession or parade, except funeral processions, shall be held without first securing a permit from the chief of police, and all requests for permits shall state the time, place of formation, proposed line of march, destination and any other regulations the chief of police sets forth in the permit.
B. A funeral procession composed of a procession of vehicles shall be identified by the methods determined and designated by the chief of police.
C. No driver of a vehicle shall drive between the vehicles comprising a funeral or other authorized procession while they are in motion and when the vehicles are conspicuously a part of the procession.
D. Each driver in a funeral or other procession shall drive as near to the right hand edge of the roadway as practical and shall follow the vehicle ahead as close as is practical and safe.
A. Reasonable and prudent maximum speed limits on roadways located within the town limits are set forth on the town speed zone map and accompanying table, adopted and amended from time to time by resolution of the council, upon recommendation by the town engineer and based on nationally-accepted traffic engineering standards.
B. Any peace officer or duly authorized agent of the town may stop and detain a person as is necessary to investigate an actual or suspected violation of title 28, Arizona revised statutes, or this section, and to serve a copy of the traffic complaint for any alleged civil or criminal violation of this title.
A. It shall be unlawful for a person to drive at a speed greater than the speed posted in an area undergoing roadway construction.
B. As used in this section, “roadway construction” means the construction, reconstruction or maintenance of any road by town employees or any contractor or subcontractor performing such construction, reconstruction or maintenance at the direction of the town.
C. The town engineer or the town engineer’s authorized representative is hereby authorized to establish temporary reduced speed limits in areas undergoing roadway construction. The temporary reduced speed limits shall be implemented when the town engineer or the town engineer’s authorized representative determines, based on an engineering and traffic investigation, that the permanent speed limits in the area under construction are not reasonable and safe while the roadway construction is taking place.
D. Any temporary reduced speed limit established by the town engineer or the town engineer’s authorized representative shall be effective only for the duration of the roadway construction.
E. The temporary reduced speed limits shall be effective when all of the following has taken place:
1. A work order authorizing a temporary construction zone speed limit is signed by the town engineer or the town engineer’s authorized representative and filed in the town clerk’s office.
2. Speed limit signs with the temporary reduced speed limit are erected in a clearly visible manner in the area undergoing construction.
3. The permanent speed limit signs in the area undergoing construction are temporarily removed, covered or turned.
F. Any person found responsible for speeding in excess of a posted temporary reduced speed limit shall be fined $250 for each violation. No judge may suspend any portion of the fine prescribed in this paragraph.
G. Any person found responsible for speeding in excess of the permanent posted speed limit in an area undergoing roadway construction where a temporary reduced speed limit has not been posted shall be fined $250 for each violation. No judge may suspend any portion of the fine prescribed in this paragraph.
Ordinance 2008.08 added section 12-2-12
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