§ 71.23 THROUGH STREETS; STOP AND YIELD RIGHT-OF-WAY SIGNS.
   (A)   Pursuant to R.C. § 4511.65, all state routes are designated as through highways; however, stop signs, yield signs, or traffic-control signals shall be erected at all intersections with through highways by the Department of Transportation as to highways under its jurisdiction and by the authorized local authority as to highways under its jurisdiction, except as otherwise provided in this section. Where two or more state routes that are through highways intersect and no traffic-control signal is in operation, stop signs or yield signs shall be erected at one or more entrances thereto by the Department, except as otherwise provided in this section.
   (B)   Other streets or highways, or portions thereof, are hereby designated through highways if they are within the city, if they have a continuous length of more than one mile between the limits of the street or highway or portion thereof, and if they have stop or yield signs or traffic-control signals at the entrances of the majority of intersecting streets or highways. For purposes of this section, the limits of the street or highway or portion thereof shall be the city corporation line, the physical terminus of the street or highway, or any point on the street or highway at which vehicular traffic thereon is required by regulatory signs to stop or yield to traffic on the intersecting street. However, in residence districts the city may erect either stop signs or yield signs at an intersecting street and thereafter designate by ordinance the street or highway, or portion thereof, not to be a through highway and thereafter the affected residence district shall be indicated by official traffic-control devices. Where two or more through highways designated under this division intersect and no traffic-control signal is in operation, stop signs or yield signs shall be erected at one or more entrances thereto by the Department or by the authorized local authority having jurisdiction, except as otherwise provided in this section.
   (C)   The Department or the authorized local authority having jurisdiction need not erect stop signs at intersections they find to be so constructed as to permit traffic to safely enter a through highway without coming to a stop. Signs shall be erected at these intersections indicating that the operator of a vehicle shall yield the right-of-way to or merge with all traffic proceeding on the through highway.
   (D)   The authorized local authority with reference to highways under its jurisdiction may designate additional through highways and shall erect stop signs, yield signs, or traffic-control signals at all streets and highways intersecting the through highways, or may designate any intersection as a stop or yield intersection and shall erect like signs at one or more entrances to that intersection.
(R.C. § 4511.65) ('80 Code, § 71.06) Penalty, see § 70.99