§ 71.045 PLACEMENT OF AND OBEDIENCE TO SIGNS.

   (A)   (1)   Whenever any ordinance or resolution of this city designates any one-way street or alley, the City Engineer shall place and maintain signs giving notice thereof, and no such regulations shall be effective unless such signs are in place.

      (2)   Signs indicating the direction of lawful traffic movement shall be placed at every intersection where movement of traffic in the opposite direction is prohibited.

   (B)   Whenever authorized signs are erected indicating the direction of lawful traffic movement, no driver of a vehicle shall disobey the direction of any such sign.

('81 Code, § 10.24.040) Penalty, see § 70.99

Statutory reference:

   One-way street designations, see Cal. Veh. Code § 21657

SPECIAL STOPS

§ 71.055 THROUGH STREETS AND INTERSECTIONS; CITY ENGINEER TO ERECT STOP SIGNS.

   (A)   Whenever any ordinance or resolution of this city designates and describes any street or portion thereof as a through street, or any intersection at which vehicles are required to stop at one or more entrances thereto, or any railroad grade crossing at which vehicles are required to stop, the City Engineer shall erect and maintain stop signs as follows: a stop sign shall be erected on each and every street intersecting such through street or portion thereof so designated and at those entrances of other intersections where a stop is required and at any railroad grade crossing so designated. Every such sign shall conform with and shall be placed as provided in the California Vehicle Code.

('81 Code, § 10.24.050)

   (B)   (1)   Those streets and parts of streets established by resolution of the Council are declared to be through streets for the purposes of this division.

      (2)   The provisions of this division shall also apply at one or more entrances to the intersections as such entrances and intersections are established by resolution of the Council.

      (3)   The provisions of this division shall apply to those highway railway grade crossings as established by resolution of the Council.

('81 Code, § 10.24.060)

Statutory reference:

   Power to place stop signs and designate through highways, see Cal Veh. Code § 21354

   Stop signs at railroad crossings, see Cal Veh. Code § 21351.5

§ 71.056 EMERGING FROM ALLEY, DRIVEWAY OR BUILDING.

   The driver of a vehicle emerging from an alley, driveway or building shall stop such vehicle immediately prior to driving onto a sidewalk or into the sidewalk area extending across any alleyway or driveway.

('81 Code, § 10.24.070) Penalty, see § 70.99

PEDESTRIANS

§ 71.070 ESTABLISHMENT AND MARKING OF CROSSWALKS.

   (A)   The City Engineer shall establish, designate and maintain crosswalks at intersections and other places by appropriate devices, marks or lines upon the surface of the roadway as follows: crosswalks shall be established and maintained at all intersections within the central traffic district and at such intersections outside such district, and at other places within or outside such district where the City Engineer determines that there is particular hazard to pedestrians crossing the roadway subject to the limitation contained in division (B) of this section.

   (B)   Other than crosswalks at intersections, no crosswalk shall be established in any block which is less than 400 feet in length and such crosswalk shall be located as nearly as practicable at midblock.

   (C)   The City Engineer may place signs at or adjacent to an intersection in respect to any crosswalk directing that pedestrians shall not cross in the crosswalk so indicated.

('81 Code, § 10.24.160)

Statutory reference:

   Establishment of crosswalk, see Cal. Veh. Code § 21106