305.01 POWERS OF SAFETY DIRECTOR.

   The Director of Public Safety, with the advice and consent of the Safety Committee of Council, is empowered to:

   (a)    Make and enforce the regulations necessary to make effective the provisions of this Traffic Code and to make and enforce temporary regulations to cover emergency or special conditions.

   (b)    Establish and mark traffic control areas.

   (c)    Establish and designate traffic control signal intersections at which intersections shall be maintained traffic control signals to regulate traffic, and to install at such location any lawful traffic control signal when it is necessary to expedite travel and promote public safety.

   (d)    Determine and designate streets or parts thereof, or specific lanes thereon upon which vehicular traffic shall proceed in one direction only, and to place and maintain appropriate markings, signs, barriers or other devices to give notice thereof.

   (e)    Erect signs temporarily designating lanes to be used by traffic moving in a particular direction, regardless of the center line of the roadway.

   (f)    Establish and designate stop intersections and yield right of way intersections, at which intersections shall be maintained the appropriate traffic control devices to regulate traffic and promote public safety.

   (g)    Place markers or signs within or adjacent to intersections indicating the course to be traveled by vehicles turning at such intersections.

   (h)    Designate through streets and provide for signs on such designated streets to accelerate the flow of traffic and promote the public safety.

      (Ord. 19-75. Passed 7-1-75.)