Davis Municipal Code Art. 22.05 Turning and Backing Movements

(a) The city traffic engineer is authorized to place markers, buttons or signs within or adjacent to intersections indicating the course to be traveled by vehicles turning at such intersections. The city traffic engineer is likewise authorized to allocate and indicate more than one lane of traffic from which drivers of vehicles may make right- or left-hand turns, and the course to be traveled, as so indicated, may conform to or be other than as prescribed by law or ordinance.

(b) When authorized markers, buttons or other indications are placed within an intersection indicating the course to be traveled by vehicles turning thereat, no driver of a vehicle shall disobey the directions of such indications.

(Ord. 1964 § 4-3.501)

(a) The city traffic engineer is authorized to determine those intersections at which drivers of vehicles shall not make a right, left or U-turn, and shall place proper signs at such intersections. The making of such turns may be prohibited between certain hours of any day and permitted at other hours, in which event the same shall be plainly indicated on the signs or they may be removed when such turns are permitted.

(b) Whenever authorized signs are erected indicating that no right, left or U-turn is permitted, no driver of a vehicle shall disobey the directions of any such sign.

(Code 1964 § 4-3.502; Ord. 2664, 8/27/2024)

No person shall back a vehicle into or through an intersection. No person shall back a vehicle so that any portion of the vehicle crosses the centerline of a street.

(Code 1964 § 4-3.503)