(A) (1) The Chief of Police shall place and maintain traffic-control devices when and as required under the traffic ordinances of the city to make effective the provisions of said ordinances, and may place and maintain such additional traffic-control devices as he or she may deem necessary to regulate traffic under the traffic ordinances of the city or to guide or warn traffic.
(2) He or she shall designate and maintain, by appropriate devices, marks or lines upon the surface of the roadway, cross at intersection where, in his or her opinion, there is particular to pedestrians crossing the roadway, and at such other places as he or she may deem necessary.
(3) He or she shall establish safety zones of such kind and character and at such places as he or she may deem necessary for the protection of pedestrians.
(4) He or she shall mark lanes for traffic on street pavements at such places as he or she may deem necessary for the protection of pedestrians consistent with the traffic ordinances of the city.
(5) He or she shall determine those intersections at which drivers of vehicles shall not make a right or left or “U” turn, and shall place proper signs at such intersections.
(6) He or she may temporarily establish a zone of quiet upon any street where a person is seriously ill, if requested to do so by a written statement of at least one registered physician certifying as to its necessity. Said temporary zone of quiet shall embrace all territory within a radius of the building occupied by the person named in the request of said physician. Said temporary zone of quiet and any other zone of quiet declared by any ordinance of the city shall be designated by the Chief of Police by placing, in a conspicuous place on the street, a sign bearing the words “Quiet Zone”.
(7) He or she may declare any street in the residential section or part of such street temporarily a “Play Street” and shall place appropriate signs or devices in the roadway indicating or helping to protect same.
(B) (1) The Chief of Police is hereby authorized to determine the location of passenger zones and freight loading zones, and shall place and maintain appropriate signs indicating the same and stating the hours during which the provisions of this section are applicable.
(2) The Chief of Police is hereby authorized and required to establish bus stops and taxicab stands and stands for other passenger common carrier motor vehicles of such public streets in such places and in such manner as to afford the greatest benefit and convenience to the public, and every such bus stop, taxicab stand or other stand shall be designated by appropriate signs.
(C) (1) The Chief of Police is hereby authorized to erect signs indicating no parking upon that side of the street adjacent to any school property, when such parking would, in his or her opinion, interfere with traffic or create a hazardous situation.
(2) The Chief of Police shall determine upon what streets angle parking shall be permitted and shall mark or sign such streets.
(3) The Chief of Police is authorized to erect signs indicating no parking on any street when the width of the roadway does not exceed 20 feet, or upon one side of the street as indicated by such signs when the width of the roadway does not exceed 30 feet.
(4) The Chief of Police is hereby authorized to determine, and designate by proper signs, distances not exceeding 100 feet at places where the stopping or parking of vehicles would create an especially hazardous condition or would cause unusual delay in traffic.
(D) The Chief of Police is hereby authorized to determine and designate where particular hazards exists upon any street or at any intersection and to determine whether vehicles shall stop at one or more entrances to any such stop intersection, and shall erect a stop sign at every such place where a stop is required or, in the event the Chief of Police determines that reduced speed, rather than a stop sign, adequate for safe operation at any such intersection, he or she shall determine such safe speed by engineering investigation and shall erect signs upon the approaches to such intersection, giving notice of such speed limitation.
(E) Whenever by any ordinance of the city a one-way street is described or any time-limit parking is imposed, it shall be the duty of the Chief of Police to erect appropriate signs giving notice thereof.
(Ord. 124, passed 11-4-1949) Penalty, see § 71.99