Whenever traffic is controlled by traffic control signals exhibiting different colored lights successfully one at a time, or with lighted green or yellow arrows, only the following colors shall be used and such terms and lights and lighted green or yellow arrows shall indicate and apply to drivers of vehicles and pedestrians as follows:
(A) Circular green (alone):
1. Vehicular traffic facing the signal may proceed straight through or turn right or left unless a sign at such place prohibits either such turn. But vehicular traffic shall yield the right-of-way to other vehicles and to pedestrians lawfully within the intersection or an adjacent crosswalk at the time such signal is exhibited.
2. Pedestrians facing the signal may proceed across the roadway within any marked or unmarked crosswalk.
(B) Steady yellow:
1. Vehicular traffic facing a steady circular yellow or yellow arrow signal is thereby warned that the respective green movement is being terminated or that a red indication will be exhibited immediately thereafter.
2. Pedestrians facing a steady yellow signal are thereby advised that there is insufficient time to cross the roadway, and no pedestrian shall start to cross.
(C) Steady red indication:
1. Vehicular traffic facing a steady red signal alone must stop at a clearly marked stop line, but if not, before entering the crosswalk on the near side of an intersection, or if not, then before entering the intersection and shall remain standing until an indication to proceed is shown except as provided in subsections (C)2 and (C)3 of this section.
2. Vehicular traffic facing a steady red signal at an intersection may turn right after stopping as required by subsection (C)1 of this section, but shall yield the right-of-way to pedestrians lawfully within an adjacent crosswalk and to other traffic lawfully using the intersection. However, the Village may by ordinance, and the statutes may by rule or regulation, prohibit any such right turn against a steady red signal at any intersection under its respective jurisdiction. Such ordinance, rule or regulation shall be effective when a sign is erected at such intersection giving notice prohibiting the right turn.
3. Vehicular traffic on a one-way highway facing a steady red signal may, after stopping as required by subsection (C)1 of this section, cautiously enter the intersection and make a left turn onto an intersecting one-way highway on which traffic travels to the left but shall yield the right-of-way to pedestrians lawfully within an adjacent crosswalk and to other traffic lawfully using the intersection. However, the Village may by ordinance, and the statutes may by rule or regulation, prohibit any such left turn against a steady red signal at any intersection within its respective jurisdiction. Such ordinance or rule or regulation shall be effective when a sign is erected at such intersection giving notice prohibiting the left turn.
4. No pedestrian facing such signal shall enter the roadway.
(D) Green straight through arrow (alone):
1. Vehicular traffic facing the signal may proceed straight through, but shall not turn right or left. Such vehicular traffic shall yield the right-of-way to other vehicles and to pedestrians legally within the intersection or an adjacent crosswalk at the time such signal is exhibited.
2. Pedestrians facing the signal may proceed across the roadway within the appropriately marked or unmarked crosswalk.
(E) Green turn arrow (with circular green, with steady yellow, with steady red, or with green straight through arrow):
1. Vehicular traffic facing the signal shall comply with the meaning of the circular green, steady yellow, steady red, or green straight through arrow indication as if it were shown alone, except that such vehicular traffic may cautiously enter the intersection to make the movement indicated by the green turn arrow. Vehicular traffic shall yield the right-of-way to pedestrians lawfully within a crosswalk and to other traffic lawfully using the intersection.
2. Pedestrians facing such signal shall comply with the meaning of the circular green, steady yellow, steady red, or straight through arrow indication as if it were shown alone.
(F) In the event an official traffic control signal is erected and maintained at a place other than an intersection, the provisions of this section shall be applicable except as to provisions which by their nature can have no application. Any stop required shall be at a traffic sign or a marking on the pavement indicating where the stop shall be made, or, in the absence of such sign or marking, the stop shall be made at the signal. (Ord. 84-O-29, 6-25-1984)