8-1 TRAFFIC ORDERS ESTABLISHED. [2]

2 Editor’s Note: This section was adopted by Ord. No. 15, §1[3]. For the statutory authority to enact local traffic regulations, see the following sections of Vehicle Code, §21100 (semaphores, control devices); §21101 (one-way streets, closing highways, through highways, stop intersections, use of highways by particular vehicles, closing highways during driver training); §21102 (closing highways dividing school grounds); §21109 (tunnels and bridges); §21110 (railroad crossings); §21111 (housing projects); §22101 (turn markers); §22113 (turns); §22507 (parking or standing); §§22357, 22358 (altering speed limits); §35700ff (weight limits).

The purpose of this section is to establish a procedure for the adoption of traffic regulations applying to particular streets, highways, intersections, or areas within this Town.

The City Engineer may make traffic orders establishing any of the following regulations:

a. Regulating traffic by means of semaphores or other official traffic-control devices;

b. Designating particular highways as one-way highways and requiring that all vehicles thereon be moved in one (1) specified direction;

c. Closing any highway or a portion of it, when in the opinion of the City Engineer, the highway is no longer needed or cannot safely be used for vehicular traffic;

d. Designating any highway as a through highway and requiring that all vehicles stop before entering or crossing the highway;

e. Designating any intersection as a stop intersection and requiring all vehicles to stop at one (1) or more entrances to the intersection;

f. Prohibiting the use of particular highways by certain vehicles, except as otherwise provided by the Public Utilities Commission pursuant to Article 2 of Chapter 5 of Part 1 of Division 1 of the Public Utilities Code of the State of California;

g. Closing particular streets during regular school hours for the purpose of conducting automobile driver training programs in the secondary schools and colleges in the Town;

h. Closing to vehicular traffic that portion of any street or highway crossing or dividing any school grounds when in the opinion of the City Engineer the closing is necessary for the protection of persons attending the school or using the school grounds. The closing to vehicular traffic may be limited to the hours and days that the City Engineer may specify;

• i. Establishing crosswalks between intersections;

• j. Directing that pedestrians shall not cross in a crosswalk indicated at an intersection;

• k. Regulating vehicular traffic on privately owned and maintained roads or ways within the boundaries of a privately owned airport, when the roads or ways are expressly open to the general public for purposes of vehicular traffic;

• l. Regulating vehicular and pedestrian traffic in subways, tubes, and tunnels or on bridges or viaducts;

• m. Requiring that all vehicles stop before entering or crossing the tracks at any highway railroad grade crossing;

n. Regulating vehicular traffic on privately owned and maintained roads or ways within the boundaries of any housing project or within the site of any housing owned or operated by a Housing Authority created under and by virtue of the Housing Authorities Law, commencing at Section 34200 of the Health and Safety Code of the State of California, on privately owned and maintained roads or ways within areas which would be a residence district if the road or way were a public highway, or, with the consent of the owner, on publicly owned and maintained roads and ways within areas not owned by this Town;

o. Prohibiting the making of any turning movement by any vehicle at any intersection or between any designated intersections;

p. Prohibiting the parking or standing of vehicles on certain streets or highways, or portions thereof, during all or certain hours of the day;

q. Declaring a prima facie speed limits of thirty (30), thirty-five (35), forty (40), forty-five (45), fifty (50), fifty-five (55), or sixty (60) miles per hour, or a maximum speed limit of sixty-five (65) miles per hour, on any street other than a State highway otherwise subject to a prima facie speed limit of twenty-five (25) miles per hour;

r. Declaring a prima facie speed limit of sixty (60), fifty-five (55), fifty (50), forty-five (45), forty (40), thirty-five (35), thirty (30) or twenty-five (25) miles per hour on any portion of any street other than a State highway where the street is subject to a speed limit of sixty-five (65) miles per hour;

• s. Regulating the installation and operation of mechanical devices for the control of vehicular and pedestrian traffic;

• t. Establishing weight limitation for vehicles traveling over roads and bridges;

• u. Providing for the delineation of parking spaces.

Every traffic order made under subsection 8-1.2 shall be based on a traffic and engineering survey and shall conform with accepted principles and practices of traffic engineering.

No traffic order shall be effective until:

• a. It has been adopted by resolution of the Town Council; and

b. Appropriate signs or markings, meeting the requirements of the Vehicle Code of the State of California, are placed to give notice of the regulation to the traveling public, unless the regulation itself constitutes notice.

1 Editor’s Note: For description of traffic devices, see Vehicle Code, §21400ff.

a. Resolutions adopting traffic orders shall be numbered consecutively, in a numerical series separate from that applied to other resolutions of the Town Council.

b. A copy of each resolution adopting a traffic order shall be filed with the City Engineer.

Violations of traffic orders adopted under this section shall be punished as provided in California Vehicle Code Sections 40000.1 and 42001.

2 Editor’s Note: For the statutory provisions regarding traffic offenses, see Vehicle Code, §40000ff; for the provisions regarding procedure on arrests, see Vehicle Code, §40300ff; and for the provisions regarding penalties, see Vehicle Code, §42000ff.