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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)
(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)
The City Engineer is authorized to mark center lines and lane lines upon the surface of the roadway to indicate the course to be traveled by vehicles and may place signs temporarily designating lanes to be used by traffic moving in a particular direction, regardless of the centerline of the highway.
('81 Code, § 10.20.060)
(A) The City Engineer is authorized to place and maintain distinctive roadway markings as described in the California Vehicle Code on those streets or parts of streets where the volume of traffic or the vertical or other curvature of the roadway renders it hazardous to drive on the left side of such marking or signs and markings.
(B) Such marking or signs and markings shall have the same effect as similar markings placed by the State Department of Public Works pursuant to provisions of the California Vehicle Code.
('81 Code, § 10.20.070)
No person, unless authorized by this city, shall paint any street or curb surface.
('81 Code, § 10.20.080) Penalty, see § 70.99
Any person who violates any provision of this title for which no penalty is otherwise provided shall be punished according to Chapter 13 of this code.