(A) The state traffic laws regulating traffic-control signs, signals, and devices used to regulate traffic, including intersection control, truck routes, weight restrictions on bridges and roads, and road use restrictions for trucks, semi-tractors, and semi-trailers, shall be applicable on all roads within the county, except as the Board of County Commissioners shall declare and determine certain regulations concerning such traffic-control signs, signals, and devices as applicable on specified streets or in certain areas, from time to time. Such declarations and determinations shall be made upon the recommendation of the County Highway Engineer that, under conditions found to exist after engineering and traffic investigations, certain traffic control signs, signals, and devices are needed in order to regulation traffic.
(B) The County Highway Department shall have the power to place and maintain traffic-control signs, signals, and devices when and as required in order to regulate traffic in accordance with the declarations and determinations of the Board of Commissioners.
(C) It shall be a violation of this § 70.08 for an operator of a vehicle to fail to obey any traffic-control sign, signal, or device so declared by the Board of Commissioners when such signs, signals, or devices are in place, unless otherwise directed to proceed by a police officer.
(BC Ord. 1992-24, passed 12-7-92; Am. BC Ord. 2021-27, passed 8-9- 21) Penalty, see § 70.99