(A) The City Chief of Police or his or her duly authorized representative shall have the duty of erecting or installing upon, over, along, or beside any highway, street, or alley signs, signals, and other traffic-control devices to direct or warn traffic in accord with the provisions of this section and other traffic ordinances and laws. All traffic-control devices shall conform with the State Manual on Uniform Traffic-Control Devices for Streets and Highways, vol. I and II, and shall be uniform and be located, so far as practicable, according to the directions shown in that manual, throughout the city. All traffic- control devices which are consistent with that manual and state law and this section shall be official traffic-control devices.
(B) Whenever the Chief of Police has erected and installed any official traffic-control device, signal, or sign at any location in the city or has caused the same to be done under his or her direction, the Chief of Police shall file a report with the City Secretary, in writing and signed officially by the Mayor, stating the type of traffic-control device, sign, or signal and when and where the same was erected or installed. The City Secretary shall file and maintain this report among the official papers of his or her office.
(C) It shall be unlawful for any person to disobey the directions of any official traffic-control device unless directed so to do by a peace officer, subject to the exceptions granted to the driver of an authorized emergency vehicle.
(D) In any prosecution for a violation of this section or any traffic ordinance of the city, proof that any traffic-control device, sign, signal, or marking was actually in place on any street shall constitute prima facie evidence that the same was installed by the city’s Chief of Police pursuant to the authority of this section and of the ordinance directing the installation of that device, sign, signal, or marking.
(Ord. 382, passed 7-11-1995) Penalty, see § 70.99