La Verne Municipal Code Ch. 10.36 Stops and Yields Required

The city traffic engineer shall erect and maintain stop signs on each and every street intersecting a through highway or portion thereof at those entrances of other intersections when a stop is required and at highway intersections or railroad crossings as may be designated in this chapter. Every such sign shall be placed at or near the entrance to the highway intersection or railroad crossing where a stop is required and every such sign shall conform with and shall be placed as provided in the Vehicle Code.

(Prior code § 4250)

The city council may, from time to time, designate by resolution intersections of through highways requiring stop signs.

(Prior code §§ 4251—4251.07; Ord. 868 § 2, 1995)

The city council may, from time to time, designate by resolution intersections of local streets requiring stop signs.

(Prior code § 4252; Ord. 868 § 2, 1995)

Stop signs are declared to be required at all highway rail grade crossings without mechanical warnings.

(Prior code § 4254; Ord. 868 § 3, 1995)

The city traffic engineer, upon approval of the police commission, is authorized to place stop signs or markers temporarily at intersections in the event of unusual traffic conditions or emergencies, and when signs are erected giving notice thereof, drivers of vehicles shall stop at such designated stop signs.

(Prior code § 4256)

The driver of a vehicle emerging from an alley, driveway or building shall stop such vehicle immediately prior to driving onto a sidewalk or into the sidewalk area extending across any alley way.

(Prior code § 4258)

A. It shall be unlawful for any person driving, operating, propelling or causing to be propelled, any vehicle, to fail, refuse or neglect to stop within fifty feet of the nearest side of a school crosswalk or pedestrian lane where any signal device, crossing guard, flagman, police officer, or any other authorized person is stationed giving warning that children, or other pedestrians are about to cross or are crossing, the street; and it is further declared unlawful to start the vehicle into motion until such signal has stopped, raised, been removed, or given an indication to proceed or the crossing guard, flagman, police officer, or other authorized person has given a signal to proceed or has left the locality; provided, however, by order of the chief of police, that proper signs or markings be placed upon the lanes or adjacent to the curb leading to such crosswalk or pedestrian lane; further providing, that the signals referred to in this section and known hereafter as "school signals" shall be of the type as follows: a yellow intermittent light shall be displayed during those hours in any one day as deemed necessary by the chief of police for the safety and welfare of school children, and shall be an indication to the operator of a vehicle of a school crosswalk, and a further indication to the operator of a vehicle to proceed with caution. The school signal shall display a constant yellow and constant red light, upon being actuated by a remote control operated by a pedestrian, and shall be an indication to the operator of a vehicle that the constant red light alone is about to be displayed and shall be a further indication to the operator of a vehicle that a complete stop within fifty feet prior to the crosswalk or pedestrian lane contiguous to the signal will be required. A constant red light shall be displayed immediately after the display of the constant red and yellow light by the school signal, which shall be an indication to the operator of a vehicle that a complete stop is required, and the vehicle shall not be placed into motion prior to the school signal resuming the operation of an intermittent yellow light, which shall indicate to proceed with caution.

(Prior code § 4242)