Carpinteria Municipal Code Ch. 10.24 Special Stops Required

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For statutory provisions on local authority to regulate stops at through streets and stop intersections, see Vehicle Code § 21101.

Whenever any ordinance or resolution of this 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 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 Vehicle Code.

(Prior code § 3170)

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 or driveway.

(Prior code § 3172)

A. Those streets and parts of streets established by resolution of the council are declared to 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 established by resolution of the council.

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

(Prior code § 3171)