Blue Lake Municipal Code Ch. 10.03 Traffic Control and Devices

A. The City Manager shall have the power and duty to place and maintain or cause to be placed and maintained official traffic control devices when and as required under the traffic laws of this City to make effective the provisions of said laws. The City Council shall have final approval authority to install traffic control devices.

B. Whenever the vehicle code of this state requires for the effectiveness of any provision thereof that traffic control devices be installed to give notice to the public of the application of the law, the City Manager is hereby authorized to install the necessary devices subject to any limitations or restrictions set forth in the law applicable thereto.

C. The City Manager may also place and maintain the additional traffic control devices as he or she may deem necessary to regulate traffic or to guide or warn traffic but he or she shall make such determination only upon the basis of traffic engineering principles and traffic investigations and in accordance with the standards, limitations and rules as may be set forth in the traffic laws of this City or as may be determined by ordinance or resolution of the legislative body of this City.

(Ord. 531 § 3, 2019)

The driver of any vehicle shall obey the instructions of any official traffic control device applicable thereto placed in accordance with the Blue Lake Municipal Code unless otherwise directed by a Sheriff's Officer subject to the exceptions granted the driver of an authorized emergency vehicle when responding to emergency calls.

(Ord. 531 § 3, 2019)

A. The City Manager is hereby directed to install and maintain official traffic signals at those intersections and other places where traffic conditions are such as to require that the flow of traffic be alternately interrupted and released in order to prevent or relieve traffic congestion or to protect life or property from exceptional hazard. The City Council shall have final approval authority to install traffic control devices.

B. The City Manager shall ascertain and determine the locations where such signals are required by utilizing traffic engineering and safety standards and instructions adopted by the Federal Highway Administrator of the U.S. Department of Transportation.

(Ord. 531 § 3, 2019)

A. 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.

B. 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.

(Ord. 531 § 3, 2019)

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.

(Ord. 531 § 3, 2019)

The City Manager is hereby authorized to mark center lines and lane lines upon the surface of the roadway to indicate the course to be traveled by vehicles and may place signs temporarily designating lanes to be used by traffic moving in a particular direction regardless of the center line of the highway. When authorized signs have been placed designating off-center traffic lanes, no person shall disobey the instructions given by such signs.

(Ord. 531 § 3, 2019)

A. The City Manager is authorized to place markers, buttons, or signs within or adjacent to intersections indicating the course to be traveled by vehicles turning at such intersections, and such course to be traveled as so indicated may conform to or be other than as prescribed by law or ordinance.

B. When authorized markers, buttons, or other indications are placed within an intersection indicating the course to be traveled by vehicles turning thereat, no driver of a vehicle shall disobey the directions of such indications.

(Ord. 531 § 3, 2019)

The City Manager is hereby authorized to determine those intersections at which drivers of vehicles shall not make a right, left, or U-turn, and shall place proper signs at such intersections. The making of such turns may be prohibited between certain hours of any day and permitted at other hours, in which event the same shall be plainly indicated on the signs or they may be removed when such turns are permitted.

(Ord. 531 § 3, 2019)

The City Manager is hereby authorized to determine those intersections at which drivers of vehicles shall not make a right turn against a red or stop signal and shall erect proper signs giving notice of such prohibition. No driver of a vehicle shall disobey the directions of any such sign.

(Ord. 531 § 3, 2019)

Whenever any ordinance or resolution of this City designates any one-way street or alley, the City Manager shall place and maintain signs giving notice thereof, and no such regulations shall be effective unless such signs are in place. Signs indicating the direction of lawful traffic movement shall be placed at every intersection where movement of traffic in the opposite direction is prohibited.

(Ord. 531 § 3, 2019)

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.

(Ord. 531 § 3, 2019)

The City Manager is hereby authorized to remove, relocate or discontinue the operation of any traffic control device not specifically required by state law or this chapter whenever he or she shall determine in any particular case that the conditions which warranted or required the installation no longer exist. The City Council shall have final approval authority to remove traffic control devices.

(Ord. 531 § 3, 2019)

The City Manager shall determine the hours and days during which any traffic control device shall be in operation or be in effect except in those cases where such hours or days are specified in this chapter.

(Ord. 531 § 3, 2019)

The City Council may by ordinance establish prima facie speed limits on streets within the City limits. The following prima facie speed limits shall be established:

1. Twenty-five miles per hour on all City streets, except as set forth in 2, below; and

2. Fifteen miles per hour on Greenwood Road.

(Ord. 531 § 3, 2019)