The Governing Body or the municipal police may at any time detail officers, to be known as “traffic officers,” at street intersections. All traffic officers shall be vested with the authority to regulate and control traffic at the intersections to which they are assigned. It shall be their duty to direct the movement of traffic and prevent congestion and accidents. It shall be unlawful for any person to violate any order, or signal, of any such traffic officer notwithstanding the directive of a stop sign, or signal device, which may have been placed at any such intersection.
(Neb. RS 60-6,222, 60-683, and 60-436) (1972 Code, § 5-621) Penalty, see § 70.99