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Title 10 — Vehicles and Traffic›Chapter 10.28 — SPECIAL STOPS

Carlsbad Municipal Code Art. I General Regulations

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

Cite as: Carlsbad Municipal Code Article I · Text as of 2026-10-04

§ 10.28.010. Erection and location of 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 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 Sections 21352 to 21355 of the Vehicle Code of the state.

(Ord. 3005 § 42)

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§ 10.28.020. Where stops required.

A. Those streets and parts of streets described in Article II of this chapter, are declared to be through streets for the purposes of this section.

B. The provisions of this section shall also apply at one or more entrances to the intersections as such entrances and intersections are described in Sections 10.28.060 through 10.28.280.

(Ord. 3005 § 43)

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§ 10.28.030. Emerging from alley, driveway or building.

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.

(Ord. 3005 § 44)

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§ 10.28.040. Compliance with signals of properly appointed persons wearing insignia.

It is unlawful for any person to refuse or fail to comply with any lawful order, signal or direction of any person appointed by the Chief of Police to control traffic at school crossings; provided, that such person giving any order, signal or direction at such crossings shall at the time be wearing some insignia, indicating such appointment. It is unlawful for any minor to direct or attempt to direct traffic unless authorized to do so by order of the Chief of Police.

(Ord. 3031 § 1)

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§ 10.28.050. Stopping in school pedestrian lanes.

It is unlawful for any person driving or operating, propelling or causing to be propelled, any vehicle, to fail to stop not less than 50 feet from the nearest side of a school pedestrian lane where any signal device, flagger or other person is stationed, giving warning that children are about to cross or are crossing the street; and it is further declared unlawful to proceed until such signal has stopped, raised, or been removed, or the flagger or person stationed at such pedestrian lane has given a signal to go, or has left the locality.

(Ord. 3031 § 2)

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