Burbank Municipal Code Art. 5 Turning Movements

The Public Works Director is authorized to place markings or signs within or adjacent to intersections or public right-of-ways, indicating the course to be traveled by vehicles turning at such intersections, and the Public Works Director is authorized to allocate and indicate more than one lane of traffic from which drivers of vehicles may make right or left turns, and the course to be traveled, as so indicated, may conform to or be other than as prescribed by law or ordinance. [Formerly numbered Section 29-23; renumbered by Ord. No. 3058, eff. 2/21/87; Amended by Ord. No. 3723, eff. 7/3/07.]

The Public Works Director is authorized to determine those intersections where a right turn against a red or stop signal shall be prohibited. No operator of a vehicle shall make a right turn against a red or stop signal when such prohibition is properly signposted at such intersections. [Formerly numbered Section 29-24; renumbered by Ord. No. 3058, eff. 2/21/87; 2697.]

The Public Works Director is authorized to determine and designate those intersections and other locations at which vehicle operators shall not make right, left or U-turns. The making of right, left or U-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. [Formerly numbered Section 29-25; renumbered by Ord. No. 3058, eff. 2/21/87; 2697.]

The Public Works Director is authorized to determine and designate those intersections at which drivers shall not make right, left or U-turns between certain hours of any day. The Public Works Director shall place proper signs giving notice of such restrictions. The signs shall either state the hours during which the making of right, left or U-turns are prohibited or shall be removed when such turns are permitted. [Formerly numbered Section 29-26; renumbered by Ord. No. 3058, eff. 2/21/87; Amended by Ord. No. 3723, eff. 7/3/07.]

A. LEFT OR RIGHT TURNS; WHEN PROHIBITED.

It shall be unlawful for the driver of any vehicle to make a left turn or to make a right turn at an intersection or at any entrance into a street, or into or out of any alley, or at any other place upon a public street, where there is posted at or adjacent to such intersection, entrance or other place, an authorized appropriate sign or signs, giving notice that left turns, or right turns, or both are there prohibited.

B. EXCEPTION.

Nothing in this section shall apply to a bus traveling an authorized route and being operated by a public utility subject to the jurisdiction of the Public Utilities Commission or other governmental agency having jurisdiction, when applicable signs posted prohibiting left turns or prohibiting right turns shall give notice thereon exempting such bus. [Formerly numbered Section 29-27; renumbered by Ord. No. 3058, eff. 2/21/87; Amended by Ord. No. 3723, eff. 7/3/07.]

Whenever authorized signs are erected indicating that no right, or left or U-turn is permitted, no driver of a vehicle shall disobey the directions of any such sign. [Formerly numbered Section 29-28; renumbered by Ord. No. 3058, eff. 2/21/87.]