§ 70.22 TRAFFIC ACCIDENT STUDIES.

   Whenever the accidents at any particular location become numerous, the Patrol Division shall cooperate with the Chief of Police in conducting studies of such accidents and determining remedial measures.

('81 Code, § 10.08.030)

§ 70.23 TRAFFIC ACCIDENT REPORTS.

   (A)   The Patrol Division shall maintain a suitable system of filing traffic accident reports.

   (B)   Accident reports or cards referring to them shall be filed alphabetically by name.

   (C)   Such reports shall be available for the use and information of the Chief of Police.

('81 Code, § 10.08.040)

§ 70.24 SUBMISSION OF ANNUAL TRAFFIC SAFETY REPORT.

   (A)   The Patrol Division shall annually prepare a traffic report.

   (B)   Such a report shall contain information on traffic matters in this city as follows:

      (1)   The number of traffic accidents, the number of persons killed, the number of persons injured and other pertinent traffic accident data;

      (2)   The number of traffic accidents investigated and other pertinent data on the safety activities of the police;

      (3)   The plans and recommendations of the division for future traffic activities.

('81 Code, § 10.08.050)

§ 70.25 TRAFFIC SAFETY COMMITTEE.

   (A)   Established; compensation; chairman.

      (1)   There is established a Traffic Safety Committee to serve without compensation, consisting of the Chief of Police or his staff designee, the City Manager or his staff designee, the Public Works Director or his staff designee and other such persons as may be appointed by resolution of the City Council.

      (2)   The City Manager may appoint the chairman of the committee.

('81 Code, § 10.08.060) (Ord. 908, passed - -88)

   (B)   Duties. It shall be the duty of the Traffic Safety Committee to suggest the most practicable means for coordinating the activities of all officers and agencies of this city having authority with respect to the administration and enforcement of traffic regulations; to stimulate and assist in the preparation and publication of traffic reports; to receive complaints having to do with traffic matters; and to recommend to the legislative body of this city and to the chief of the Patrol Division and other city officials ways and means for improving traffic conditions and the administration and enforcement of traffic regulations.

('81 Code, § 10.08.070)

TRAFFIC-CONTROL DEVICES

§ 70.35 AUTHORITY TO INSTALL.

   (A)   The City Engineer shall have the power and duty to place and maintain or cause to be placed and maintained official traffic-control devices when and as required to make effective the provisions of this title.

   (B)   Whenever the California Vehicle Code requires for the effectiveness of any provision thereof that traffic-control devices be installed to give notice to the public of the application of such law the City Engineer is authorized to install or cause to be installed the necessary devices subject to any limitations or restrictions set forth in the law applicable thereto.

   (C)   The City Engineer may also place and maintain or cause to be placed and maintained such additional traffic control devices as he may deem necessary or proper to regulate traffic or to guide or warn traffic, but he shall make such determination only upon the basis of traffic engineering principles and traffic investigations and in accordance with such standards, limitations, and rules as may be set forth in this title or resolution of the Council.

('81 Code, § 10.20.010)

Statutory reference:

   Traffic-control devices, see Cal. Veh. Code §§ 21351 et seq. and §§ 21400 et seq.

§ 70.36 AUTHORITY TO REMOVE, RELOCATE AND DISCONTINUE.

   The City Engineer is authorized to remove, relocate or discontinue the operation of any traffic-control device not specifically required by the California Vehicle Code or this title whenever he determines in any particular case that the conditions which warranted or required the installation no longer exist or apply.

('81 Code, § 10.20.020)

§ 70.37 HOURS OF OPERATION.

   The City Engineer shall determine the hours and days during which any traffic-control device shall be in operation or be in effect, except in those cases where such hours or days are specified in this title.

('81 Code, § 10.20.030)

§ 70.38 TRAFFIC-CONTROL SIGNS REQUIRED FOR ENFORCEMENT PURPOSES.

   No provision of the California Vehicle Code or of this title for which signs are required shall be enforced against an alleged violator unless appropriate legible signs are in place giving notice of such provisions of the traffic laws.

('81 Code, § 10.20.040)

§ 70.39 INSTALLATION AND PLACEMENT DETERMINATION.

   (A)   The City Engineer is directed to install and maintain official traffic signals at those intersections and other places where traffic conditions are such as to require that the flow of traffic be alternately interrupted and released in order to prevent or relieve traffic congestion or to protect life or property from exceptional hazard.

   (B)   The City Engineer shall ascertain and determine the locations where such signals are required by field investigation, traffic counts and other traffic information as may be pertinent and his determinations therefrom shall be made in accordance with those traffic engineering and safety standards and instructions set forth in the “California Maintenance Manual” issued by the Division of Highways of the State Department of Public Works.

   (C)   Whenever the City Engineer installs and maintains an official traffic signal at any intersection, he shall likewise erect and maintain at such inter-section street name signs visible to the principal flow of traffic unless such street name signs have previously been placed and are maintained at any such intersection.

('81 Code, § 10.20.050)