(A) The Council is to determine character and location of signs and signals.
(1) The City Council shall, by resolution, determine and designate the character or type of all official traffic signs and signals and shall designate the location where the same shall be installed. Subject to this selection, the Chief of Police is hereby authorized, and as to those signs and signals required hereunder, it shall be his or her duty, to place and maintain or cause to be placed and maintained all official traffic signs and signals. All signs and signals required hereunder for a particular purpose shall so far as practicable be uniform as to type and location throughout the city.
(2) No provision of this traffic code for which signs are required shall be enforced against an alleged violator if, at the time and place of the alleged violation, the sign herein required was not in proper position and sufficiently legible to be seen by an ordinarily observant person. Whenever a particular section does not state that signs are required, the section shall be effective without signs being erected to give notice thereof.
(B) It shall be unlawful for any operator or driver of any motor vehicle or vehicles of any kind to disobey any instruction of any official traffic sign or signal placed in accordance with the provisions of this traffic code unless otherwise directed by a police officer.
(C) It shall be unlawful for any person to place or to display upon or in view of any street any unofficial sign, signal or device which purports to be or is an imitation of or resembles an official traffic sign or signal or signal or which attempts to direct the movement of traffic or which hides from view or interferes with the effectiveness of any official sign or signal. Every prohibited sign, signal or device is hereby declared to be a public nuisance, and the Chief of Police is hereby empowered to remove the same, or cause it to be removed, without notice.
(D) It shall be unlawful for any person to willfully deface, injure, move, obstruct or interfere with any official traffic sign or signal.
(E) The Chief of Police authorized to designate crosswalks. The Chief of Police is hereby authorized to establish and to designate and shall thereafter maintain or cause to be maintained, by appropriate devices, marks or lines upon the surface of the roadway, crosswalks at intersections where, in his or her opinion, there is particular danger to pedestrians crossing the roadway and at other places as he or she may deem necessary.
(F) The Chief of Police authorized to designate safety zones and lanes for traffic.
(1) The Chief of Police is hereby empowered to establish safety zones of a kind and character and at such places as he or she may deem necessary for the protection of pedestrians.
(2) The Chief of Police is also authorized to mark lanes for traffic on street pavements at such places as he or she may deem advisable consistent with the provisions of this chapter.
(Ord. 33, passed 11-23-48) Penalty, see § 70.99