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(A) A list of traffic-control signs, signals, devices and markers which are in place at the street locations therein shown and are in use for the purpose of regulating, warning or guiding traffic, is to be kept on file in the office of the Director of Transportation and Planning.
(B) It shall be a misdemeanor to disobey the instructions of any traffic-control device.
(C) The list of traffic control devices and makers, maintained and updated by the Director of Transportation and Planning, are hereby affirmed, ratified and declared to be official traffic-control devices.
(1998 Code, § 118-75)
Editor’s note:
Exhibit A, giving descriptions and locations of such devices, is on file with the city and has not been included herein.
The Director of Transportation and Planning, or his or her designee, shall designate any street intersections at which traffic shall be controlled by electric traffic-control signals or lights and shall cause the signals or lights to be installed and maintained at the intersections.
(1998 Code, § 118-76)
The Director of Transportation and Planning, or his or her designee, may designate any street intersection as a stop intersection and designate the streets upon which vehicles shall stop before entering the intersection. Whenever any intersection has been so designated, the Director of Transportation and Planning, or his or her designee, shall cause the intersection to be identified by the erection of stop signs indicating which vehicles approaching the intersection shall stop, and it shall be the duty of the driver of any vehicle approaching such a sign to bring the vehicle to a complete stop at the sign or at a clearly marked stop line before entering the intersection, except when directed to proceed by a police officer or a traffic-control signal. After having so stopped, the driver shall yield the right-of-way to other vehicles which have entered the intersection or which are approaching so closely as to constitute an immediate hazard. The driver, after having so yielded, may proceed and the drivers of all other vehicles approaching on the intersecting street shall yield the right-of-way to the vehicle so proceeding into or across the intersection.
(1998 Code, § 118-77)
Statutory reference:
Authority of city to designate stop intersections, see Tex. Transportation Code §§ 542.202(a)(8), 544.003
Duty of drivers with respect to stop signs, see Tex. Transportation Code §§ 544.003
The Director of Transportation and Planning, or his or her designee, may install and maintain yield right-of-way signs at intersections where a special hazard may exist anywhere vehicles shall be required to yield the right-of-way. The driver of a vehicle approaching a yield right-of-way sign shall, in obedience to the sign, slow down to a speed not in excess of 15 mph, or shall stop if necessary, and shall yield the right-of-way to any pedestrian crossing the roadway on which he or she is driving and to any vehicle in the intersection or approaching on another street so closely as to constitute an immediate hazard.
(1998 Code, § 118-78)
The Director of Transportation and Planning, or his or her designee, is hereby authorized to:
(A) Designate and maintain, by appropriate devices, marks or lines upon the surface of the roadway, crosswalks at any intersection where, in his or her opinion, there is particular danger to pedestrians crossing the roadway, and at such other places as he or she may deem necessary;
(B) Establish safety zones, quiet zones, play zones and other zones of such kind and character and at such places as he or she may deem necessary for the protection of the public; and/or
(C) Mark lanes for traffic on street pavements at such places as he or she may deem advisable, consistent with this traffic code and other traffic ordinances of the city.
(1998 Code, § 118-79)
(A) Whenever any ordinance of the City Commission designates any one-way street or alley, the Director of Transportation and Planning, or his or her designee, shall place and maintain signs giving notice thereof, and no such regulations shall be effective unless the signs are in place. 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) Upon those streets and parts of streets and in those alleys which are designated as one-way streets or alleys, vehicular traffic shall move only in the indicated direction where signs indicating the direction of traffic are erected and maintained at every intersection where movement in the opposite direction is prohibited.
(1998 Code, § 118-80)
Statutory reference:
Authority of city to designate one-way streets and require traffic thereon to move in one specific direction, see Tex. Transportation Code § 542.202(a)(10)
(A) The Director of Transportation and Planning, or his or her designee is authorized to place markers, buttons or signs within or adjacent to intersections indicating the course to be traveled by vehicles turning at such intersections, and such course to be traveled as so indicated may conform to or be other than as prescribed by any provision of this traffic code, state law or city ordinance, rule or regulation.
(B) When authorized markers, buttons or other indications are placed within an intersection indicating the course to be traveled by vehicles turning thereat, no driver of a vehicle shall disobey the directions of those indications.
(1998 Code, § 118-81)