Council shall have authority as follows:
(a) To declare any street or highway or part thereof a play street and to place appropriate signs or devices in the roadway indicating and helping to protect the same.
(b) To designate and maintain, by appropriate devices, marks or lines upon the surface of the roadway, crosswalks at intersections where in its opinion there is particular danger to pedestrians crossing the roadway, and at such other places as it may deem necessary.
(c) To establish safety zones of such kind and character and at such places as it may deem necessary for the protection of pedestrians.
(d) To mark traffic lanes upon the roadway of any street or highway where a regular alignment of traffic is necessary.
(e) To determine and designate intersections where particular hazard exists upon other than through streets or highways and to determine whether vehicles shall stop at one or more entrances to any such intersection, in which event the Mayor shall cause to be erected a stop sign at every such place where a stop is required.
(f) To determine and designate streets or highways, parts of streets or highways or specific lanes thereon upon which vehicular traffic shall proceed in one direction during one period and the opposite direction during another period of the day and shall place and maintain appropriate markings, signs, barriers or other devices to give notice thereof. The Mayor may erect signs temporarily designating lanes to be used by traffic moving in a particular direction, regardless of the center line of the roadway.
No person shall operate any vehicle in violation of such markings, signs, barriers or other devices so placed in accordance with this section.
(1965 Code §13-9, 13-10, 13-14, 13-21)