Berkeley Municipal Code Ch. 14.20 Special Stops Required

A. The Council may by resolution designate and describe any street or portion thereof as a through street, or any intersection thereto, or any railroad grade crossing at which vehicles are required to stop.

B. The City Traffic Engineer shall erect and maintain stop signs 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; provided, however, that stop signs shall not be erected or maintained at any entrance to an intersection when such entrance is controlled by an official traffic control signal. Every such sign shall conform with and shall be placed as provided in the Vehicle Code.

C. The City Traffic Engineer is authorized to install and maintain stop signs at one or more of the intersecting approaches to street intersections classified as local streets in the Circulation Section of the Berkeley Master Plan, as adopted by the City Council in August 1968, a copy of which Circulation Section on file with the City Clerk. Every such sign shall conform and be installed in accordance with the recommendations of the Traffic Manual of the California Division of Highways. (Ord. 4664-NS § 1, 1973; Ord. 3982-NS § 1, 1963; Ord. 3262-NS § 5, 1952)

The operator of any 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 driveway. (Ord. 3262-NS § 5.1, 1952)