Hercules Municipal Code Art. 4 Traffic Control Devices

(a) The Director of Public Works shall have the power and duty to place and maintain or cause to be placed and maintained official traffic control devices when and as authorized by the City Council or if City Council authorization is not required by this Chapter, when and as required to make effective the provisions of this Chapter.

(b) Whenever the Vehicle Code requires for the effectiveness of any provision thereof that official traffic control devices be installed to give notice to the public of the application of such law the Director of Public Works is hereby authorized to install or cause to be installed the necessary devices subject to any limitations or restrictions set forth in the law applicable thereto and subject to authorization by the City Council if such authorization is required by this Chapter.

No provision of the Vehicle Code or of this Chapter for which signs are required shall be enforced against an alleged violator unless appropriate legible signs are in place giving notice of such provisions of the traffic laws.

It shall be unlawful for a pedestrian or the operator of any vehicle to disobey the instructions of any traffic control device, signal, sign, marking or barrier placed in accordance with the traffic regulations of the City unless otherwise directed by a police officer or other authorized person, and subject to the exceptions granted the driver of an authorized emergency vehicle when responding to emergency calls.

The Director of Public Works is hereby authorized to mark center lines, parking areas, and lane lines upon the surface of the roadway to indicate the course to be traveled and used by the vehicles, and may place signs designating lanes to be used by traffic moving in a particular direction regardless of the center line of the highway.

The Director of Public Works is hereby authorized to place and maintain distinctive roadway markings as described in the Vehicle Code on those streets or parts of streets where the volume of traffic or the vertical or other curvature of the roadway renders it hazardous to drive on the left side of such marking or signs and markings. Such markings or signs and markings shall have the same effect as similar markings placed by the Department of Public Works of the State pursuant to provisions of the Vehicle Code.

The hours and days during which any official traffic control device shall be in operation or effect shall be as provided in this Chapter or as otherwise provided by the City Council.

No person, unless authorized by this city, shall paint any street or curb surface; provided, however, that this section shall not apply to the painting of numbers on a curb surface by any person who has complied with the provisions of any resolution or ordinance of this city pertaining thereto.