Laguna Woods Municipal Code Ch. 8.04 Enforcement

The City Manager or designee is hereby charged with the responsibility, under the powers and duties specified in this chapter, to carry out and review all traffic engineering functions affecting the City.

(OCC § 6-4-201)

It shall be the general duty of the City Manager or designee to determine the installation, design, operation, and maintenance of traffic-control devices, design and/or review traffic flow systems and appurtenances, conduct engineering analyses of traffic accidents; devise remedial measures; conduct engineering and traffic investigations of traffic conditions. Traffic engineering shall also cooperate with the California Highway Patrol, the Orange County Sheriff's Department, the Orange County Fire Department, and other agencies as appropriate in the development of ways and means to improve traffic conditions and carry out the additional duties imposed by the ordinances of the City. In making decisions pursuant to the provisions of this chapter, the Department shall act so as to preserve public safety and the orderly movement of traffic.

(OCC § 6-4-202)

State Law reference— Authority to regulate traffic by means of official traffic control devices, Vehicle Code § 21100(d); when signs required, Vehicle Code § 21461.5.

The Department is authorized to place official traffic-control devices within or adjacent to intersections indicating the course to be traveled by vehicles turning at such intersections, and the director is authorized to locate and indicate more than one lane of traffic from which drivers of vehicles may make right or left turns.

(OCC § 6-4-300)

State Law reference— Authority to restrict turns, Vehicle Code §§ 22101, 22113.

The Department is hereby authorized to establish and designate two-way left turn lanes on highways.

(OCC § 6-4-301)

State Law reference— Authority to restrict turns, Vehicle Code §§ 22101, 22113.

The Department is hereby authorized to place and maintain signs or markings to prohibit or to restrict left turns, right turns or U-turns at intersections or driveways.

(OCC § 6-4-302)

State Law reference— Authority to restrict turns, Vehicle Code §§ 22101, 22113.

All major, primary, secondary and commuter arterial highways of the City as shown on the master plan of arterial highway are hereby declared to be through highways, unless specifically designated otherwise, together with such other highways, together with such other highways as the City Council may, by resolution, declare to be through highways.

(OCC § 6-4-400)

The Department is authorized to:

(1) Erect and maintain stop signs at entrances to any or all of said throughways highways a from other public or private streets.

(2) Install stop signs at intersections where, in his opinion, there is an imminent danger without such control. The Department shall follow said installation with request for Council approval at the earliest opportunity.

(OCC § 6-4-401)

State Law reference— Authority to erect stop signs and yield signs, Vehicle Code §§ 21351.5, 21353 et seq.