Chapter 10.08 — TRAFFIC ADMINISTRATION AND REGULATION

The chief of police is authorized and required to establish and maintain upon the surface of the roadway, by appropriate devices, marks, or lines, crosswalks approximately equal in width to the adjacent sidewalk at all intersections where, in his or her opinion, there is particular danger to pedestrians crossing the roadway.

(Prior code § 4-3.09)

It is unlawful for any person to place, maintain or display any device, mark or sign, other than an official warning or direction signal erected by competent authority, upon or in view of a street, which device, mark or sign purports to be, or is, an imitation of, or resembles, an official warning or direction sign or signal, or which attempts to direct or control the movement of traffic, or the parking of vehicles, or the actions of operators. Any such prohibited device or sign shall be a public nuisance, and the chief of police may remove it, or cause it to be removed, without notice.

(Prior code § 4-3.10)

The council, from time to time, by resolution, may limit or restrict turning movements by vehicles in specified locations. The chief of police and city engineer shall determine and install appropriate signs to provide notice of such restrictions. After the installation of such signs, no person may operate a vehicle in violation of the provisions of such signs.

(Prior code § 4-3.18)

The city council may, by resolution, designate any portion of any local city street as a one-way street. The chief of police and city engineer shall determine and install appropriate signs to provide notice of such restrictions. After the installation of such signs, no person may operate a vehicle in violation of the provisions of such signs.

(Prior code § 4-3.19)

A.

Whenever any resolution of the city designates and describes any street, or portion thereof, as a street the use of which is permitted by any vehicle exceeding a maximum gross weight limit of three tons, the city engineer is

authorized to designate such street by appropriate signs ("truck routes") for the movement of vehicles exceeding a maximum gross weight limit of three tons.

B.

When any such truck routes are established and designated by appropriate signs, the operator of any vehicle exceeding a maximum gross weight limit of three tons shall drive on such routes and none other, except that nothing in this section shall prohibit the operator of any vehicle exceeding a maximum gross weight of three tons coming from a truck route having ingress and egress by direct route to and from restricted streets when necessary for the purpose of making pickups or deliveries of goods, wares and merchandise from or to any building or structure located on such restricted streets or for the purpose of delivering materials to be used in the actual and bona fide repair, alteration, remodeling or construction of any building or structure upon such restricted streets for which a building permit has previously been obtained therefor.

C.

The provisions of this section shall not apply to the following:

1.

Passenger buses under the jurisdiction of the Public Utilities Commission of the state; and

2.

Any vehicle owned by a public utility while necessarily in use in the construction, installation or repair of any public utility.

D.

Those streets and parts of streets established by resolution of the council as truck routes are hereby declared to be truck routes for the movement of vehicles exceeding a maximum gross weight of three tons.

(Prior code § 4-3.15)

A.

In order to promote the safe and orderly flow of traffic, no person may solicit or beg for any monies, goods or services, including offering any services in exchange for monies, goods or services, while located:

1.

Within one hundred fifty (150) feet of any entrance to or driveway within any commercial establishment or shopping center; or

2.

Within one hundred fifty (150) feet of any intersection of city streets, including intersections of city streets and state highways or state highway on or off ramps; or

3.

On any median in any city street; or

On the roadway of any city street, including approaching and/or attempting to interfere with the movement of any occupied vehicle while such vehicle is being operated on any city street.

B.

This section shall not apply to any nonprofit organization, or any person or organization acting on behalf of a nonprofit organization, conducting a fundraising activity; provided such activity does not interfere with the safe and orderly flow of traffic and said person or organization has obtained a public safety and welfare permit from the chief of police, with appropriate conditions imposed thereon. A public safety and welfare permit shall be issued only when the following apply: (1) the applicant satisfactorily demonstrates an understanding of the principles of traffic flow and public safety through education, training or experience adequate to address the circumstances of the proposed fundraising activity; and (2) that the location and time of the proposed fundraising activity will not significantly impact traffic flow or public safety.

(Ord. 586 § 2, 2007; Ord. 559 § 2, 2004)