Arcata Municipal Code Art. 6 Special Stops Required

Whenever any ordinance or resolution of this City designates and describes any street or portion thereof as a through street or at any intersection at which vehicles are required to stop at one or more entrances thereto, or at any railroad grade crossing at which vehicles are required to stop, the City Manager shall erect and maintain stop signs as follows:

A stop sign shall be erected on each and every street intersecting such through street or portion thereof so designated and at those entrances of other intersections where a stop is required and at any railroad grade crossing so designated. Every such sign shall conform with and shall be placed as provided in the California Vehicle Code.

(a) Those streets and parts of streets enumerated by resolution of the City Council are hereby declared to be through streets for the purposes of this section.

(b) The provisions of this section shall also apply at one or more entrances to the intersections as such entrances and intersections are enumerated by resolution of the City Council.

(c) The provisions of this section shall apply at those highway railway grade crossings as enumerated by resolution of the City Council.

(d) When stop signs are erected as herein provided at the entrance to any intersection or at any railway grade crossing, every driver of a vehicle shall stop as required by the Vehicle Code.

The driver of a vehicle emerging from an alley, driveway or building shall stop such vehicle immediately prior to driving onto a sidewalk or into the sidewalk area extending across any alley way.

Whenever any ordinance or resolution of this City designates that yield right-of-way signs be erected at the entrances to intersections, the City Manager shall erect and maintain yield right-of-way signs. Every such yield right-of-way sign shall conform with and shall be placed as provided in the California Vehicle Code.