Earlier editions: 2026-07
Title 10 — Vehicles and Traffic
Hawthorne Municipal Code Ch. 10.28 Turning Movements
Hawthorne Municipal Code · 2026-10 edition · updated 2026-10-04 · Hawthorne
Cite as: Hawthorne Municipal Code Chapter 10.28 · Text as of 2026-10-04
§ 10.28.010. Authority to place turning markers.¶
The chief of police 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, and the chief of police is 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.
(Prior code § 10-500)
§ 10.28.020. Obedience to turning markers.¶
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.
(Prior code § 10-501)
§ 10.28.030. Right turns against red or stop signal.¶
No driver of a vehicle shall make a right turn against a red or stop signal if a sign is placed prohibiting such a turn.
(Prior code § 10-502)
§ 10.28.040. Authority to prohibit turns.¶
The council may by resolution determine and designate those intersections at which drivers shall not make right, left or U-turns. Whenever any resolution of the city designates those intersections and places at which drivers shall not make a right, left or U-turn, the street superintendent shall place and maintain signs giving notice thereof. The making of right, left or U-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.
(Prior code § 10-503)
§ 10.28.050. Authority of chief of police to designate no turns.¶
The chief of police is authorized to determine and designate those intersections at which drivers shall not make right, left or U-turns between certain hours of any day; the chief of police shall place proper signs giving notice of such restrictions. The signs shall either state the hours during which the making of right, left or U-turns is prohibited or shall be removed when such turns are permitted.
(Prior code § 10-504)
§ 10.28.060. Obedience to no-turn signs.¶
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.
(Prior code § 10-505)
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