Sections:
10.12.010 Authority to install traffic-control devices.
10.12.020 Official traffic-control devices required for enforcement purposes.
10.12.030 Authority for stop signs and yield signs.
10.12.040 Installation of traffic signals.
10.12.050 Traffic lanes.
10.12.060 Distinctive roadway markings.
10.12.070 Authority to remove, relocate and discontinue traffic-control devices.
10.12.080 Traffic-control devices--Hours of operation.
10.12.090 Unauthorized painting of curbs.
10.12.100 City traffic engineer to establish crosswalks.
The city traffic engineer shall place and maintain or cause to be placed and maintained official traffic- control devices upon streets and highways as required under the Vehicle Code or the traffic ordinances of Murrieta to make effective the provisions of the Vehicle Code or the ordinances, and may place and maintain or cause to be placed and maintained, such appropriate official traffic-control devices as he or she may deem necessary properly to indicate and to carry out the provisions of the Code or the ordinances or to warn or guide traffic. (Ord. 98 § 1 (part), 1993: Ord. § 1 (part), 1991: prior code § 12.04.001)
No provisions of the Vehicle Code or of this chapter for which official traffic-control devices are required shall be enforced against an alleged violator unless appropriate official traffic-control devices are in place giving notice of such provision of the traffic laws.
(Ord. 98 § 1 (part), 1993: Ord. 3 § 1 (part), 1991: prior code § 12.04.002)
The city traffic engineer is authorized to erect and maintain stop signs, yield signs, or other official traffic-control devices to designate through streets or to designate intersections or other roadway junctions at which vehicular traffic on one or more of the roadways should yield or stop and yield before entering the intersection or junction.
(Ord. 98 § 1 (part), 1993: Ord. 3 § 1 (part), 1991: prior code § 12.04.003)
A. The city traffic engineer shall, subject to the fiscal determination of the council, 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 congestions 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 an engineering and traffic survey and his or her determinations therefrom shall be made in accordance with those traffic engineering and safety standards and instructions set forth in the Department of Transportation Traffic Manual.
C. The city traffic engineer shall erect and maintain at each signal-controlled intersection street name signs clearly visible to traffic approaching from all directions. (Ord. 98 § 1 (part), 1993: Ord. 3 § 1 (part), 1991: prior code § 12.04.004)
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