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PALO ALTO MUNICIPAL CODE
CHARTER OF THE CITY OF PALO ALTO
Title 1 GENERAL PROVISIONS
Title 2 ADMINISTRATIVE CODE*
Title 3 RESERVED
Title 4 BUSINESS LICENSES AND REGULATIONS*
Title 5 HEALTH AND SANITATION*
Title 6 ANIMALS
Title 7 RESERVED
Title 8 TREES AND VEGETATION
Title 9 PUBLIC PEACE, MORALS AND SAFETY*
Title 10 VEHICLES AND TRAFFIC*
Chapter 10.04 DEFINITIONS
Chapter 10.08 ENFORCEMENT AND OBEDIENCE TO TRAFFIC REGULATIONS*
Chapter 10.10 TEMPORARY STREET CLOSURES*
Chapter 10.12 TRAFFIC-CONTROL DEVICES*
Chapter 10.16 TURNING MOVEMENTS*
Chapter 10.20 ONE-WAY STREETS AND ALLEYS*
Chapter 10.24 SPECIAL STOPS REQUIRED
Chapter 10.28 MISCELLANEOUS DRIVING RULES
Chapter 10.32 PEDESTRIANS*
Chapter 10.34 ABANDONED, WRECKED, DISMANTLED OR INOPERATIVE VEHICLES*
Chapter 10.36 STOPPING, STANDING AND PARKING - GENERALLY
Chapter 10.40 STOPPING, STANDING AND PARKING - LOADING AND UNLOADING
Chapter 10.44 STOPPING, STANDING AND PARKING - PROHIBITED OR RESTRICTED
Chapter 10.45 VALET PARKING
Chapter 10.46 COLLEGE TERRACE RESIDENTIAL PARKINGPERMIT PROGRAM (RPPP)
Chapter 10.47 LARGE VEHICLE PARKING
Chapter 10.48 TRUCKS AND TRUCK ROUTES
Chapter 10.50 RESIDENTIAL PREFERENTIAL PARKING DISTRICTS
Chapter 10.51 CRESCENT PARK NO OVERNIGHT PARKING PROGRAM
Chapter 10.52 TRAINS
Chapter 10.56 SPECIAL SPEED ZONES*
Chapter 10.60 PARKING VIOLATIONS*
Chapter 10.62 IDLING OF VEHICLES
Chapter 10.64 BICYCLES, ROLLER SKATES AND COASTERS*
Chapter 10.70 RESERVED*
Title 11 ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT PROCEDURE
Title 12 PUBLIC WORKS AND UTILITIES
Title 13 IMPROVEMENT PROCEDURE*
Title 14 RESERVED
Title 15 FIRE PREVENTION*
Title 16 BUILDING REGULATIONS*
Title 17 HAZARDOUS MATERIALS STORAGE*
Title 18 ZONING*
Title 19 MASTER PLAN*
Title 20 PRECISE PLANS*
Title 21 SUBDIVISIONS AND OTHER DIVISIONS OF LAND*
Title 22 PARKS*
ORDINANCE LIST AND DISPOSITION TABLE
Chapter 10.12
TRAFFIC-CONTROL DEVICES*
Sections:
   10.12.010   Authority to install traffic-control devices.
   10.12.020   When traffic-control devices required for enforcement.
   10.12.030   Reserved.
   10.12.040   Installation of traffic signals.
   10.12.050   Lane markings.
   10.12.060   Distinctive roadway markings.
   10.12.070   Authority to remove, relocate or discontinue.
   10.12.080   Hours of operation.
   10.12.090   Regulation of speed by traffic signals.
   10.12.100   Barriers and lights where work is being done.
   *   For state law authorizing local authorities to place and maintain traffic signs, signals and other traffic-control devices upon streets and highways - See Veh. C.A., § 21351.
10.12.010   Authority to install traffic-control devices.
   (a)   The city manager shall have the power and duty to place and maintain or cause to be placed and maintained official traffic-control devices when and as required under the traffic ordinances of this city to make effective the provisions of said ordinances.
   (b)   Whenever the Vehicle Code requires, for the effectiveness of any provision thereof, that traffic-control devices be installed to give notice to the public of the application of such law, the city manager is authorized to install or cause to be installed the necessary devices, subject to any limitations or restrictions set forth in the law applicable thereto.
   (c)   The city manager may also place and maintain or cause to be placed and maintained such additional traffic-control devices as he may deem necessary to regulate traffic or to guide or warn traffic, but he shall make such determination only upon the basis of traffic engineering principles and traffic investigations and in accordance with such standards, limitations and rules as may be set forth in the traffic ordinances of this city or as may be determined by ordinance or resolution of the legislative body of this city.
(Ord. 1714 (part), 1956: prior code § 19.31)
10.12.020   When traffic-control devices required for enforcement.
   No provision of the Vehicle Code or of this title for which signs are required shall be enforced against an alleged violator unless appropriate signs are in place and sufficiently legible to be seen by an ordinarily observant person, giving notice of such provisions of the traffic laws.
(Ord. 1714 (part), 1956: prior code § 19.32)
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