Whenever traffic is controlled by traffic control signals exhibiting the words “go” or “stop,” or exhibiting different colored lights successively one at a time, or with arrows, the following colors only shall be used and said terms and lights shall indicate and apply to drivers of vehicles and pedestrians as follows.
(A) Green alone or “go.”
(1) Vehicular traffic facing the signal may precede straight through or turn right or left unless a sign at such place prohibits either such turn. But vehicular traffic, including vehicles turning right or left, shall yield the right-of-way to other vehicles and to pedestrians lawfully within the intersection or an adjacent crosswalk at the time such signal is exhibited.
(2) Pedestrians facing the signal may proceed across the roadway within any marked or unmarked crosswalk.
(B) Steady yellow alone.
(1) Vehicular traffic facing the signal is thereby warned that the red or “stop” signal will be exhibited immediately thereafter and such vehicular traffic shall not enter or to be crossing the intersection when the red of “stop” signal is exhibited.
(2) Pedestrians facing such signal are thereby advised that there is insufficient time to cross the roadway and any pedestrian then staring to cross shall yield the right-of-way to all vehicles.
(C) Steady red alone or “stop.”
(1) Vehicular traffic facing the signal shall stop before entering the crosswalk on the near side of the intersection or, if none, then before entering the intersection and shall remain until green or “go” is shown alone, except as hereinafter provided.
(2) When the Board of Commissioners may permit, the driver of a vehicle which is stopped as close as practicable at entrance to the crosswalk and to the far right side of the roadway, then at the entrance to the intersection in obedience to red or stop signal, may make a right turn, but shall yield the right-of-way to pedestrians and other traffic proceeding as directed by signal at said intersection. Such Board of Commissioners action permitting a right turn after a stop when facing a steady red light alone shall be effective when a sign is erected at such intersecting giving notice thereof.
(D) Steady red with green arrow.
(1) Vehicular traffic facing such signal may cautiously enter the intersection only to make the movement indicated by such arrow, but shall yield the right-of-way to pedestrians lawfully within a crosswalk and to other traffic lawfully using the intersection.
(2) No pedestrian facing such signal shall enter the roadway unless he or she can do so safely and without interfering with any vehicular traffic.
(3) In the event of official traffic control signal is erected and maintained at a place other than an intersection, the provisions of this section shall be applicable except as to those provisions which by their nature can have no application.
(4) Any stop required shall be made at a sign or marking on the pavement indicating where the stop shall be made, but in the absence of any such sign or marking, the stop shall be made at the signal.
(5) Whenever an illuminated flashing red or yellow signal is used in a traffic sign or signal, it shall require obedience by vehicular traffic as follows.
(Ord. 22, passed 7-8-2010)
(E) Flashing red. When a red lens is illuminated with rapid intermittent flashes, drivers of vehicles shall stop before entering the nearest crosswalk at an intersection or at a limit line when marked or, if none, then before entering the intersection, and the light to proceed shall be subject to the rules applicable after making a stop at a stop sign.
(F) Flashing yellow.
(1) When a yellow lens is illuminated with rapid intermitted flashes, drivers of vehicles may proceed through the intersection or past such signal only with caution.
(2) This section shall not apply at railroad grade crossings. Conduct of drivers of vehicles approaching railroad grade crossing shall be governed elsewhere in this chapter.
(Ord. 22, passed 7-8-2010)