Fresno Municipal Code Art. 2 Administration

The office of City Traffic Engineer is hereby established under the Director of Public Works. The City Traffic Engineer shall exercise the powers and duties as approved in this chapter and in the other provisions of the Code relating to traffic.

(Orig. Ord. 3811; Rep. and Added Ord. 6130, 1962; Am. Ord. 89-116, § 1, eff. 10-27-89).

It shall be the general duty of the City Traffic Engineer to determine the installation and proper timing and maintenance of traffic control devices and signals, to conduct engineering analyses of traffic accidents and to devise remedial measures, to conduct engineering and traffic investigations of traffic conditions and to cooperate with other city officials in the development of ways and means to improve traffic conditions, and to carry out the additional powers and duties imposed by provisions of this Code. Whenever, by the provisions of this chapter a power is granted to the City Traffic Engineer or a duty imposed upon him, the power may be exercised or the duty performed by his deputy or by a person authorized in writing by him.

(Orig. Ord. 3811; Am. Ord. 4789, 1955; Rep. and Added Ord. 6130, 1962).

(a) The Chief of Police is hereby empowered to place or remove or cause to be placed or removed signs, signals and markings temporarily to cover emergencies, special conditions or events. Such signs, signals and markings shall be removed or reinstated in such a manner to restore the original traffic control immediately upon termination of the emergency, condition or event unless otherwise directed by the Council.

(b) The City Traffic Engineer is hereby empowered to make regulations necessary to make effective the provisions of this chapter, to cover emergencies or special conditions and to make temporary or experimental regulations. No such temporary or experimental regulation shall remain in effect for more than ninety days. In the event that after ninety days the experimental regulations have proved satisfactory, they may be placed into effect permanently by Council authorization.

(Orig. Ord. 3811; Rep. and Added Ord. 6130, 1962).