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Title 10 — Vehicles and Traffic

Brentwood Municipal Code Ch. 10.09 Special Stops

Brentwood Municipal Code · 2026-10 edition · updated 2026-10-04 · Brentwood

Cite as: Brentwood Municipal Code Chapter 10.09 · Text as of 2026-10-04

§ 10.09.010. City engineer to erect stop signs.

Whenever any ordinance or resolution of the city designates and describes any street, or portion thereof, as a through street, or any intersection that the city engineer, after appropriate study and surveys, finds that placement of stop signs is necessary for the safe and orderly flow of traffic, or any railroad grade crossing at which vehicles are required to stop, the city engineer 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, at those entrances to other intersections where a stop is required, and at any railroad grade crossing so designated; provided, however, 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 California Vehicle Code.

(Ord. 592 § 1, 1998)

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§ 10.09.020. Emerging from alleys, driveways, or buildings.

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 alleyway or driveway.

(Ord. 592 § 1, 1998)

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§ 10.09.030. Yield right-of-way signs.

When deemed necessary for the orderly and safe movement of traffic by the city engineer, yield right-of-way signs may be erected at the approaches to intersections of streets and highways under his or her jurisdiction which are not through highways, but such yield right-of-way signs shall not be erected upon the approaches to more than one of the intersecting streets.

(Ord. 592 § 1, 1998)

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