Hercules Municipal Code Art. 5 Turning Movements

(a) The Director of Public Works is hereby 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 is further 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 or adjacent to an intersection indicating the course to be traveled by vehicles turning thereat, no driver of a vehicle shall disobey the directions of such indications.

The Director of Public Works is hereby 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 turn 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.

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

(a) No driver of a vehicle shall make a right turn against a red or stop signal at any intersection which is sign-posted giving notice of such restriction as hereinafter provided in this section.

(b) The Director of Public Works shall post appropriate signs giving effect to this section where the City Council has determined that the making of right turns against traffic signal "stop" indication would seriously interfere with the safe and orderly flow of traffic.