(A) Through streets designated. Those streets and parts of streets described in Chapter 78, Schd. III are declared to be through streets for the purpose of this section.
(Prior Code, § 71.25)
(B) Signs required at through streets. Whenever this Traffic Code designates and describes a through street it shall be the duty of the Board to place and maintain a stop sign, or on the basis of an engineering and traffic investigation at any intersection a yield sign, on each and every street intersecting the through street unless traffic at an intersection is controlled at all times by traffic-control signals. However, at the intersection of two through streets, or at the intersection of a through street and a heavy traffic street not so designated, stop signs shall be erected at the approaches of either of the streets as may be determined by the Board on the basis of an engineering and traffic study.
(Prior Code, § 71.26)
(C) Other intersections where stop or yield required. The Board is authorized to determine and designate intersections where particular hazard exists on streets other than through streets and to determine either that vehicles shall stop at one or more entrances to the intersection, in which event the Board shall cause to be erected a stop sign at each place where a stop is required, or that vehicles shall yield the right-of-way to vehicles on the other street as prescribed in division (F)(1) below. In this event the Board shall cause to be erected a yield sign at every place where required.
(Prior Code, § 71.27)
(D) Stop signs and yield signs.
(1) Every stop sign shall bear the word “Stop” in letters not less than eight inches in height. Every yield sign shall bear the word “Yield” in letters not less than seven inches in height. Every stop sign and every yield sign shall at nighttime be rendered luminous by internal illumination, or by a floodlight projected on the face of the sign, or by efficient reflecting elements in the face of the sign.
(2) Every stop sign and every yield sign shall be erected as near as practicable to the nearest line of the crosswalk on the near side of the intersection or, if there is no crosswalk, then as near as practicable to the nearest line of the intersecting roadway.
(Prior Code, § 71.28)
(E) Vehicle entering stop intersection.
(1) Except when directed to proceed by a police officer or traffic-control signal, every driver of a vehicle approaching a stop intersection indicated by a stop sign shall stop before entering the crosswalk on the near side of the intersection. In the event there is no crosswalk, the driver shall stop at a clearly marked stop line, or, in the event there is no stop line, at the point nearest the intersecting roadway where the driver has a view of approaching traffic on the intersecting roadway before entering the intersection.
(2) After stopping, the driver shall yield the right-of-way to any vehicle which has entered the intersection from another highway or which is approaching so closely on the highway as to constitute an immediate hazard, but the driver having so yielded may proceed and the drivers of all other vehicles approaching the intersection shall yield the right-of-way to the vehicle so proceeding.
(Prior Code, § 71.29)
(F) Vehicle entering yield intersection.
(1) The driver of a vehicle approaching a yield sign shall in obedience to such sign slow down to a speed reasonable for the existing conditions, or shall stop if necessary, and shall yield the right-of-way to any pedestrian legally crossing the roadway on which he or she is driving, and to any vehicle in the intersection or approaching on another highway so closely as to constitute an immediate hazard. After yielding, the driver may proceed, and the drivers of all other vehicles approaching the intersection shall yield to the vehicle so proceeding. A driver who enters a yield intersection without stopping and has, or causes a collision with a pedestrian in a crosswalk or a vehicle in the intersection shall prima facie be considered not to have yielded as required herein. The foregoing shall not relieve the drivers of other vehicles approaching the intersection at such distance as not to constitute an immediate hazard from the duty to drive with due care to avoid a collision.
(2) The driver of a vehicle approaching a yield sign, if required for safety to stop, shall stop before entering the crosswalk on the near side of the intersection. In the event there is no crosswalk, the driver shall stop at a clearly marked stop line, or, in the event there is no stop line, then at the point nearest the intersecting roadway where the driver has a view of approaching traffic on the intersecting roadway.
(Prior Code, § 71.30)
(G) Stop when traffic obstructed. No driver shall enter an intersection or a marked crosswalk unless there is sufficient space on the other side of the intersection or crosswalk to accommodate the vehicle he or she is operating without obstructing the passage of other vehicles or pedestrians, notwithstanding any traffic-control signal indication to proceed.
(Prior Code, § 71.31)
(Ord. 1781-1960, passed - -) Penalty, see § 74.999
Statutory reference:
Local authorities may designate through streets, see I.C. 9-21-1-3(a)(6)