Cypress Municipal Code Art. VII Special Stops

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 state Vehicle Code.

(Ord. No. 364, § 2)

(a) Those streets and parts of streets established by resolution of the city council are hereby declared to be through streets for the purposes of this section.

(b) 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, 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. Every such sign shall conform with, and shall be placed as provided in the state Vehicle Code. It is further provided that no such regulation shall be effective until such signs are in place.

(c) Whenever authorized stop signs are erected, no driver of a vehicle shall disobey the instructions of any such sign.

(Ord. No. 364, § 2)

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. No. 364, § 2)