Brisbane Municipal Code Ch. 10.12 Traffic-Control Signs and Devices

The city traffic engineer or his duly authorized agent 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 to make effective the provisions of traffic ordinances of the city.

(Ord. 38 § 4(part), 1962).

Whenever the Vehicle Code requires for the effectiveness of any provision thereof that traffic-control devices be installed to give notice to the public of the application of such law, the city traffic engineer is authorized to install or cause to be installed the necessary devices subject to any limitations or restrictions set forth in the law applicable thereto.

(Ord. 38 § 4.1, 1962).

The city traffic engineer may also place and maintain or cause to be placed and maintained such additional traffic-control devices as he may deem necessary to regulate traffic or to guide or warn traffic, but he shall make such determination only upon the basis of traffic engineering principles and traffic investigations and in accordance with such standards, limitations and rules as may be set forth in the traffic ordinances of the city, or as may be determined by ordinance or resolution of the legislative body of the city.

(Ord. 38 § 4.2, 1962).

No provision of the Vehicle Code or of this title for which signs are required shall be enforced against an alleged violator unless appropriate signs are in place and sufficiently legible to be seen by an ordinarily observant person, giving notice of such provisions of the traffic laws.

(Ord. 38 § 4.3, 1962).

The operator of any vehicle or train shall obey the instructions of any official traffic-control device placed in accordance with this title unless otherwise directed by a police officer or other authorized person subject to the exceptions granted the operator of an authorized emergency vehicle when responding to emergency calls.

(Ord. 38 § 4.4, 1962).

The city traffic engineer is 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.

(Ord. 38 § 4.5, 1962).

The city traffic engineer shall ascertain and determine the locations where such signals are required by resort to field observation, traffic counts and other traffic information as may be pertinent, and his determinations therefrom shall be made in accordance with those traffic engineering and safety standards and instructions set forth in the Planning Manual of Instructions, Part 8, "Traffic," issued by the Division of Highways of the State Department of Public Works.

(Ord. 38 § 4.6, 1962).

Whenever the city traffic engineer in- stalls and maintains an official traffic signal at any intersection, he shall likewise erect and maintain at such intersection street name signs visible to the principal flow of traffic unless such street name signs have previously been placed and are maintained at any said intersection.

(Ord. 38 § 4.7, 1962).

The city traffic engineer is authorized to remove, relocate or discontinue the operation of any traffic-control device not specifically required by state law or this title whenever he determines in any particular case that the conditions which warranted or required the installation no longer exist or obtain.

(Ord. 38 § 4.10, 1962).

The city traffic engineer 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 the ordinance.

(Ord. 38 § 4.11, 1962).

The city traffic engineer is authorized to mark centerlines 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 centerline of the highway. In addition, the city engineer is authorized to mark lines on the surface of the roadway indicating restricted parking areas as described in Section 10.24.055 of this title.

(Ord. 374 § 1, 1991: Ord. 38 § 4.8, 1962).

The city traffic engineer is authorized to place and maintain distinctive roadway markings as described in the Vehicle Code on those streets or parts of streets where the volume of traffic or the vertical or other curvature of the roadway renders it hazardous to drive on the left side of such markings or signs and markings. Such markings placed by the State Department of Public Works pursuant to the provisions of the Vehicle Code.

(Ord. 38 § 4.9, 1962).

It is a violation of this title for any person, unless authorized by the city, to paint any street or curb surface; provided, however, that this section shall not apply to the painting of numbers on a curb surface by any person who has complied with the provisions of any resolution or ordinance of the city pertaining thereto, and who has been authorized by the city council to paint the curbs by motion, resolution, or ordinance.

(Ord. 38 § 4.12, 1962).

Whenever any ordinance or resolution of the city designates any one-way street or alley, the city traffic engineer 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. 38 § 6, 1962).

Whenever any ordinance or resolution of the city designates and describes any street or portion thereof as a through street, or any intersection at which vehicles are required to stop at one or more entrances thereto, or any railroad grade crossing at which vehicles are required to stop, the city traffic 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, 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 Vehicle Code.

(Ord. 38 § 7(part), 1962).

A. Those streets and parts of streets established by resolution of the council are declared to be through streets for the purposes of Section 10.12.150.

B. The provisions of Section 10.12.150 shall also apply at one or more entrances to the intersections as such entrances and intersections are established by resolution of the council.

C. The provisions of Section 10.12.150 shall apply at those highway railway grade crossings as established by resolution of the council.

(Ord. 38 § 7.1, 1962).

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. 38 § 7.2, 1962).

Whenever any ordinance or resolution of the city designates an entrance or entrances to any intersection and orders the erection of yield-right-of-way sign(s) at such entrance or entrances, the city traffic engineer shall erect and maintain a yield-right-of-way sign at each such entrance, and the driver of any vehicle entering such intersection through such duly designated and posted entrance shall yield the right-of-way in accordance with the provisions of the Motor Vehicle Code of the state.

(Ord. 38 § 8, 1962).