Hidden Hills Municipal Code Art. B Traffic-Control Devices

The Building Official, as authorized by the City Council, shall place and maintain or cause to be placed and maintained official traffic-control devices upon streets and highways as required under the Vehicle Code [3] or the traffic ordinances of this City to make effective the provisions of the Code or the ordinances and may place and maintain or cause to be placed and maintained such appropriate official traffic-control devices as he may deem necessary to properly indicate and to carry out the provisions of the Code or the ordinances or to warn or guide traffic.

(Ord. 215, 1-19-89; 1994 Code)

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Vehicle Code § 21351.

A. Traffic-Control Devices Required for Enforcement: No provision of the Vehicle Code or of this Chapter, for which official traffic-control devices are required, shall be enforced against an alleged violator unless appropriate official traffic-control devices are in place giving notice of such provisions of the traffic laws.

B. Installation of Traffic Signals:

1. The Building Official is authorized by the City Council to install and maintain official traffic signals at those intersections and other places where traffic conditions are such as to require that the flow of traffic be alternately interrupted and released in order to prevent or relieve traffic congestion or to protect life or property from exceptional hazard.

2. The Building Official shall ascertain and determine the locations where such signals are required by an engineering and traffic survey, and his determinations therefrom shall be made in accordance with those traffic engineering and safety standards and instructions set forth in the Department of Transportation Traffic Manual.

3. The Building Official shall erect and maintain at each signal-controlled intersection street name signs clearly visible to traffic approaching from all directions.

C. Erection of Stop Signs: Whenever, by ordinance or resolution, the City Council shall designate or describe any road or portion thereof as a through road or any intersection as an intersection at which all vehicles are required to stop before entering, the City Council shall place and maintain or cause to be placed and maintained a stop sign at each and every road intersection with such through road or portion thereof so designated and at all entrances to intersections at which all vehicles are so required to stop. Every such stop sign shall conform with and shall be placed in accordance with the provisions of the Vehicle Code. [4]

D. Markings of Traffic Lanes:

1. The Building Official shall have authority to mark traffic lanes upon the roadway of any street or highway where a regular alignment of traffic is necessary.

2. The Building Official is authorized by the City Council to place and maintain upon highways distinctive roadway markings as described in the Vehicle Code. [5]

(Ord. 181, 2-17-86; Ord. 215, 1-19-89; 1994 Code)

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Vehicle Code §§ 21400 and 21401.

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Vehicle Code § 21351, et seq.

The Building Official is authorized by the City Council to remove, relocate or discontinue the operation of any traffic-control devices not specifically required by the Vehicle Code or this Chapter whenever he shall determine in any particular case that the conditions which warranted or required the installation no longer exist or pertain.

(Ord. 215, 1-19-89; 1994 Code)

The Building Official, as authorized by the City Council, shall determine the hours and days during which any traffic-control device shall be in operation or be in effect, except in those cases where such hours or days are specified in this Chapter.

(Ord. 215, 1-19-89; 1994 Code)

The driver of a vehicle shall obey the instructions of any official traffic-control device placed in accordance with this Chapter unless directed by a Deputy Sheriff.

(Ord. 181, 2-17-86)

A. Damaging or Removing Traffic-Control Devices: No person shall, without the authority of the City Council, deface, damage or remove any official traffic-control device or stop sign placed and maintained in accordance with this Chapter.

B. Unauthorized Painting of Curbs: No person or agency, unless authorized by the Building Official, shall paint any street or curb surface; provided, however, that this subsection shall not apply to the painting of numbers on a curb surface by any person who has complied with the provisions of any ordinance or resolution of this City pertaining thereto.

(Ord. 181, 2-17-86; Ord. 215, 1-19-89; 1994 Code)