The Chief of Police, or the officer designated in charge of Traffic control, is hereby empowered and authorized, subject to the approval of Council, to:
(a) Make and enforce regulations necessary to make effective the provisions of this Traffic Code and to make and enforce temporary regulations to cover emergencies or special conditions.
(b) Designate and maintain by appropriate devices, marks or lines upon the surface of the roadway, crosswalks at intersections where in his opinion there is particular danger to pedestrians crossing the roadway, and at such other places as he may deem necessary.
(c) Mark lanes for traffic on street pavements at such places as he may deem advisable, consistent with the provisions of this Traffic Code.
(d) Determine the right and left side of laned streets by fixing and marking or designating the center line of such streets.
(e) Establish temporarily a zone of quiet upon any street where a person is seriously ill if requested to do so by the written statement of at least one registered physician certifying to its necessity. Such temporary zone of quiet shall embrace all territory within a radius of 200 feet of the building occupied by the person named in the request of the physician. Such temporary zone of quiet and any other zone of quiet shall be designated by placing at a conspicuous place in the street a sign or marking bearing the words "Quiet Zone".
(f) Designate any street or highway as a through street or highway and require that all vehicles stop or yield the right of way as may be required before entering the same.
(g) Designate any intersection as a stop intersection and require all vehicles to stop at one or more entrances to such intersection.
(h) Designate any intersection as a yield intersection and require all vehicles to yield the right of way as required.
(i) Designate any street as a one-way street and require that all vehicles thereon be moved in one specific direction.
(j) Erect signs directing slow-moving traffic to use a designated lane or allocating specified lanes to traffic moving in the same direction.
(k) Designate those portions of any street, where overtaking and passing other traffic or driving to the left of the center or center line of the roadway would be especially hazardous, by appropriate signs or markings on the street to indicate the beginning and end of such zones. Such zones may be marked by an auxiliary yellow line placed parallel and to the right of the normal center line or offset marked lane line.
(l) Place markers, buttons or signs within or adjacent to intersections and require that a specific course of direction be traveled by vehicles proceeding in lanes by either permitting, prohibiting or requiring turns at such intersections.
(m) Install traffic control devices, signals and signs at any location to regulate traffic.
(n) Close any street or portion thereof to vehicular traffic, which is in the process of construction, reconstruction or repair.
(o) Erect "No U Turn" signs at any location to prohibit a vehicle from being turned so as to proceed in the opposite direction.
(p) Regulate or prohibit the stopping, standing and parking of vehicles on streets, alleys or public property by erecting signs plainly indicating the prohibitions, restrictions or limitations.
No provision of this section shall be effective until signs, signals, markings or other devices giving notice of such local traffic regulations are posted upon or at the entrance to the street or part thereof affected, as may be most appropriate, so that in a proper position they are sufficiently legible to be seen by an ordinarily observant person.
The powers of the Police Chief shall not be limited by the specific enumeration of subjects contained in this chapter. The Police Chief shall keep a record of all his rules, regulations and proceedings in connection with this chapter. Violation of such rules and regulations shall be a misdemeanor punishable as provided in Section 303.99 of this Traffic
Code. (Ord. 1967-31. Passed 6-14-67.)