(A) Enforcement. The police are hereby authorized, empowered, and ordered to exercise all powers and duties with relation to the management of street traffic and to direct, control, stop, restrict, regulate, and, when necessary, temporarily divert or exclude in the interest of public safety, health, and convenience the movement of pedestrian, animal, and vehicular traffic of every kind in streets, parks, and on bridges. The driver of any vehicle shall stop upon the signal of any police officer.
(Neb. RS 60-683) (Prior Code, § 5-324)
(B) Refusal to obey. It shall be unlawful for any person to refuse or fail to comply with any lawful order, signal, or direction of a police officer.
(Prior Code, § 5-325)
(C) Traffic officers. The governing body or the Municipal Police may at any time detail officers to be known as “traffic officers” at street intersections. All traffic officers shall be vested with the authority to regulate and control traffic at the intersections to which they are assigned. It shall be their duty to direct the movement of traffic and prevent congestion and accidents. It shall be unlawful for any person to violate any order or signal of any such traffic officer, notwithstanding the directive of a stop sign or signal device which may have been placed at any such intersection.
(Neb. RS 60-683, 60-6,222) (Prior Code, § 5-326)
Penalty, see § 71.999