Chino Municipal Code Ch. 10.09 Traffic Signs and Signals

A. The council shall determine and designate the character of all official warning, regulatory and direction signs other than those signs for which specifications are established by the Vehicle Code.

B. The council determines that, insofar as they are applicable to city highways, all warning, regulatory and direction signs appearing in the State Traffic Manual are official signs.

(Ord. 91-23 § 1 (part), 1991.)

The council shall determine the location of all official traffic control signals.

(Ord. 91-23 § 1 (part), 1991.)

The council shall designate at which intersections and other locations traffic shall be controlled by official traffic control signals.

(Ord. 91-23 § 1 (part), 1991.)

The director shall place, maintain and operate or cause to be placed, maintained and operated, all official traffic control signals authorized by the council.

(Ord. 91-23 § 1 (part), 1991.)

The director 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 this title, or established by order of the council.

(Ord. 91-23 § 1 (part), 1991.)

The director may place and maintain all official warning and directional signs necessary to properly warn and guide traffic.

(Ord. 91-23 § 1 (part), 1991.)

The director shall place all regulatory signs and other markings required or authorized either by this title or by finding of the council.

(Ord. 91-23 § 1 (part), 1991.)

Whenever the State Department of Transportation determines and designates a distinctive roadway marking over which motorists shall not cross, the director is authorized to designate by such markings 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, or signs and markings, shall have the same effect as similar markings and signs placed by the Department of Transportation pursuant to provisions of the Vehicle Code.

(Ord. 91-23 § 1 (part), 1991.)

The director may place appropriate traffic guide lines dividing highways into the number of traffic lanes that is proper and necessary and to place such other pavement markings as are necessary to direct vehicular movements in accordance with requirement of this title and the Vehicle Code.

(Ord. 91-23 § 1 (part), 1991.)

The director may install and maintain parking space markings to indicate parking spaces adjacent to curbs where authorized parking is permitted. When such parking space markings are placed in the highway, subject to other and more restrictive limitations, no vehicle shall be stopped or left standing other than within a single space unless the size or shape of such vehicle makes compliance impossible.

(Ord. 91-23 § 1 (part), 1991.)

Whenever, because of the construction, alteration, repair or improvement of any highway, or temporary detour, or because of other emergency situation, a traffic complication will be created by compliance with provisions of this title and that the director so finds, the director may either remove or cover any sign or other traffic marking which requires such compliance. While such sign or other marking is removed or covered, the effect of such provision of this title is suspended. At the end of such emergency, unless otherwise determined by the council, the director may replace or uncover such sign or marking.

(Ord. 91-23 § 1 (part), 1991.)

If a weight limit is suspended pursuant to this title and a different weight limit is necessary, the director may erect and maintain appropriate signs during the emergency. At the end of the emergency, the director may remove such temporary signs and uncover and restore the original signs unless the council otherwise determines.

(Ord. 91-23 § 1 (part), 1991.)

The director may remove traffic signals and necessary appurtenances and other traffic devices, such as flashers, when such removal becomes necessary because of new construction, intersection reconstruction, modernization of traffic signal system, or because of driveway construction or relocation. When such construction, intersection reconstruction, modernization of traffic signal system or relocation has been completed, the director need not replace such traffic flashers or other appurtenances which have been rendered unnecessary by the new construction, intersection reconstruction, modernization of traffic signal system, or because of driveway construction or relocation.

(Ord. 91-23 § 1 (part), 1991.)

Every person who, without permission of the director to do so, removes, defaces, damages or causes the removal, defacement or damage of any sign erected pursuant to this title is guilty of a misdemeanor.

(Ord. 91-23 § 1 (part), 1991.)