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.
(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)
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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