(A) Authority to install traffic- and parking-control devices. The Chief of Police, with approval of the Council of said city, shall place and maintain traffic- and parking-control signs, signals and devices when and as required under the traffic laws of the city to make effective the provisions of said laws, and may place and maintain such additional traffic-control devices as or under state laws or to guide or warn traffic.
(B) Standards and specifications for traffic- and parking-control devices. All traffic-control signs, signals and devices, insofar as possible, shall conform to the standards set forth by the National Association of Traffic Engineers. All signs and signals required hereunder for a particular purpose shall so far as practicable be uniform as to type and location throughout the city. All traffic-control devices so erected and not inconsistent with the provisions of state law of this chapter shall be official traffic-control devices.
(C) Obedience to official traffic-control devices. The driver of any vehicle shall obey the instructions of any official traffic-control device applicable there to placed in accordance with the traffic laws of the city, unless otherwise directed by a police officer, subject to the exceptions granted the driver of an authorized emergency vehicle in this chapter.
(D) Display of unauthorized signs, signals or markings.
(1) It shall be unlawful for any person to place, maintain or display upon or in view of any highway any unauthorized sign, a signal, marking or device which purports to be or is an imitation of or resembles an official traffic-control device or railroad sign or signal or which attempts to direct the movement of traffic, or which hides from view or interferes with the effectiveness, or any official traffic-control device or any railroad sign or signal, and no person shall place or maintain, nor shall any public authority permit upon any highway, any traffic sign or signal bearing thereon any commercial advertising. This shall not be deemed to prohibit the erection upon private property, adjacent to highways of signs giving useful directional information and of a type that cannot be mistaken for official signs.
(2) Every such prohibited sign, signal or marking is hereby declared to be a public nuisance and the authority having jurisdiction over the highway is hereby empowered to remove the same or cause it to be removed without notice.
(E) Interferes with official traffic- and parking-control devices or railroad signs or signals. It shall be unlawful for any person without lawful authority to attempt to or in fact alter, deface, injure, knock down or remove any official traffic-control device or any railroad sign or signal or any inscription, shield or insignia thereon or any part thereof; not shall any such person deposit, or cause to be deposited in any parking meter any slugs, device or metal substance or other substitute for lawful coins.
(F) Chief of Police to designate and mark traffic lanes and parking spaces. The Chief of Police is hereby authorized with the approval of the Council of said city:
(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 mark lanes for traffic on street pavements at such places as he may deem advisable, consistent with the traffic laws of the city; and
(3) To mark off individual parking spaces in parking zones and in such other zones as may hereafter be established, said parking spaces to be designated by lines painted or durably marked on the curbing or surface of the street; at each space so marked off it shall be unlawful to park any vehicle in such a way that said vehicle shall not be entirely within the limits of the space so designated.
(1992 Code, § 8-1-303)