(a) The Mayor or the Chief of Police is hereby authorized and directed to designate school crossing upon such streets in the City as are used by school children in going to and from school. School crossings may be designated at such crossings where, in the opinion of the Mayor or the Chief of Police, school children cross in such numbers as to constitute a traffic hazard or so as to be exposed to traffic hazards.
(b) The crossings designated as provided in subsection (a) hereof shall be conspicuously marked and appropriate signs shall be erected and maintained in the vicinity of each crossing. Such signs may be so constructed as to display the word "STOP" when safety stops shall be required and so that the word "STOP" does not appear thereon during such time as safety stops are not required. However, nothing herein contained shall prohibit the regulation of traffic at school crossings by any other lawful means.
(c) The Mayor or the Chief of Police is hereby authorized and directed to provide by rule the times during which safety stops shal1 be required at school crossings and to provide for the display of the word "STOP" upon the signs described in subsection (b) hereof during such times as safety stops shall be required. It is the intention of this section to require safety stops at school crossings during such times as children are going to and coming from school and to permit the free flow of traffic, at reasonable lawful speeds, through and over such crossings during other intervals of time.
(d) During such time as the word "STOP" is displayed on the signs described in subsection (b) hereof or when otherwise lawfully directed to do so, all vehicles before entering or crossing a designated school crossing shall execute a safety stop by coming to a full and complete stop and shall yield the right of way to any person lawfully crossing such school crossing. The stops herein required shall be made for the purpose of permitting children upon a school crossing to cross the same in safety and to allow children about to cross such crossing to proceed.
(Ord. 49-1958. Passed 6-2-58; Ord. 61-1985. Passed 5-28-85.)