(A) Crosswalks, establish safety zones and mark traffic lanes. The Police Chief is hereby authorized, on approval by the Council:
(1) To designate and maintain, by appropriate devices, marks or lines upon the surface of the roadway, crosswalks at intersections where, in his or her opinion, there is particular danger to pedestrians crossing the roadway, and at such other places as he or she may deem necessary;
(2) To establish safety zones of such kind and character and at such places as he or she may deem necessary for the protection of pedestrians; and
(3) To mark lanes for traffic on street pavement at such places as he or she may deem advisable, consistent with the traffic laws of the town.
(Prior Code, § 12-2-5)
(B) Authority to place and obedience to turning markers.
(1) The Police Chief is authorized to place markers, buttons or signs within or adjacent to intersections indicating the course to be traveled by vehicles turning at such intersections, and such course to be traveled as so indicted may conform to or be other than as prescribed by law.
(2) When authorized markers, buttons or other indications are placed within an intersection indicating the course to be traveled by vehicles turning thereat, no driver of a vehicle shall disobey the directions of such indications.
(Prior Code, § 12-2-6)
(C) Authority to place and obedience to restricted turn signs.
(1) The Police Chief, on approval by the Council, is hereby authorized to determine those intersections at which drivers of vehicles shall not make a right, left or U-turn and shall place proper signs at such intersections. The making of such turns may be prohibited between certain hours of any day and permitted at other hours, in which event the same shall be plainly indicated on the signs, or such signs may be removed when such turns are permitted.
(2) Whenever authorized signs are erected indicating that no right or left or U-turn is permitted, no driver of a vehicle shall disobey the directions of any such sign.
(Prior Code, § 12-2-7)