Long Beach Municipal Code Ch. 10.08 Traffic-Control Devices

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State Law reference— Provisions authorizing local authorities to regulate traffic through traffic-control devices, Veh. C. § 21100.

A. The City Traffic Engineer shall place and maintain official traffic-control devices as required by ordinance of the Council, and in accordance with Section 10.08.040.

B. Whenever the Vehicle Code requires, for the effectiveness of any provision thereof, the traffic-control devices be installed to give notice to the public of the application of such law, the City Traffic Engineer is authorized to install, or cause to be installed, the necessary devices, subject to any limitations or restrictions set forth in the law applicable thereto.

C. The City Traffic Engineer may also place and maintain, or cause to be placed and maintained, such additional traffic-control devices as he may deem necessary to regulate traffic or to guide or warn traffic, but he shall make such determination of necessity only upon the basis of Traffic Engineering principles and traffic investigations, and in accordance with such standards, limitations and rules as may be set forth in the traffic provisions of this Chapter or applicable laws of the State.

(ORD-09-0021, § 4, 2009; Prior code § 3410.12)

No provision of the Vehicle Code, or of this Title, for which signs are required, shall be enforced against an alleged violator unless appropriate signs are in place and sufficiently legible to be seen by an ordinarily observant person, giving notice of such provisions of the traffic laws.

(Prior code § 3410.13)

Pedestrians and drivers of any vehicles shall obey the instructions of any official traffic-control device applicable thereto, placed in accordance with the traffic ordinances of this City, unless otherwise directed by a Police Officer.

(Prior code § 3410.14)

A. The City Traffic Engineer is authorized to install, operate 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.

B. The City Traffic Engineer shall ascertain and determine the locations where such traffic signals are required, by resort to field observations, traffic counts and other pertinent traffic information.

C. Whenever the City Traffic Engineer installs and maintains an official traffic signal at any intersection, he shall likewise erect and maintain at such intersection-street name signs visible to the principal flow of traffic, unless such street name signs have previously been placed and are maintained at any intersection.

(ORD-09-0021, § 5, 2009; Ord. C-7750 § 1, 2001; prior code § 3410.15)

The City Traffic Engineer is authorized to place and maintain centerlines and lane lines upon the surface of the roadway to indicate the course to be traveled by vehicles, and may place signs temporarily designating lanes to be used by traffic moving in a particular direction, regardless of the centerline of the highway.

(ORD-09-0021, § 6, 2009; Prior code § 3410.16)

The City Traffic Engineer is 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 marking, or signs and markings, shall have the same effect as similar markings placed by the California Department of Transportation, pursuant to provisions of the Vehicle Code.

(ORD-09-0021, § 7, 2009; Prior code § 3410.17)

The City Traffic Engineer is authorized to remove, relocate or discontinue the operation of any traffic-control device not specifically required by State law, or this Code, whenever he determines in any particular case that the conditions which warranted or required the installation no longer exist or pertain.

(ORD-09-0021, § 8, 2009; Prior code § 3410.18)

The City Traffic Engineer shall determine the hours and days during which any traffic-control device shall be in operation or effect, except in those cases where such hours or days are specified in this Title.

(ORD-09-0021, § 9, 2009; Prior code § 3410.19)

A. The Chief of Police and the City Traffic Engineer are authorized to erect and maintain, or cause to be erected and maintained, temporary traffic-control devices or barriers on any City street or alley and on City-owned property for the purpose of guiding, warning or controlling vehicular and pedestrian traffic during such times that they find it necessary for the safe and efficient movement of pedestrians and vehicles. The authority to install temporary control devices under such circumstances shall be limited to the following conditions:

1. Construction, repair and maintenance work by the City, contractors and utility organizations;

2. Movement of equipment, articles or structures of unusual size;

3. Street and alley obstructions;

4. Parades, processions and public gatherings;

5. Emergencies;

6. Temporary detours;

7. Local special events, filming activities and other such purposes for which the appropriate permits and licenses have been issued.

B. Said temporary traffic-control devices and barriers shall remain in place only as long as the need exists. In the case of temporary curb parking prohibitions, any vehicle parked in violation of such prohibitions may be removed, as provided in the Vehicle Code, by the Police Department, if temporary parking prohibition signs have been erected or placed at least twenty-four (24) hours prior to the removal.

C. No closure of any street, alley or City-owned property under this Section shall be effective until appropriate signs giving adequate notice of said closure are posted at all entrances to the street, alley or City-owned property. Such signs shall be maintained at all such entrances during the entire period that the closure is in effect.

(ORD-09-0021, § 10, 2009; Ord. C-5689 § 3, 1981; prior code § 3410.20)

No public utility or department in this City shall erect or place any barrier or sign on any street unless of a type first approved by the Manager. No person, whether driver or pedestrian, shall disobey the instructions of any barrier or sign approved, as above provided, erected or placed by a public utility or by any department in this City.

(Prior code § 3410.21)

A. The City Traffic Engineer is authorized to erect and maintain traffic-control devices or barriers on City-owned property for the purpose of guiding, warning or controlling vehicular and pedestrian traffic. The City Traffic Engineer shall maintain a current map and file giving the location, type of traffic control, date of installation, date of removal and other pertinent data which shall be available as a source of information.

B. No person shall drive or park a vehicle or walk on such City-owned property except in conformity with such traffic-control devices and barriers.

C. No person shall stop or park any vehicle within any portion of the public thoroughfare between Lakewood Boulevard, La Plaza and lots 18 and 27 of tract no. 12887, as per map recorded in book 246, pages 18 and 19 of maps, in the Office of the County Recorder of the County of Los Angeles, except those portions thereof designated by official markings or lines as parking places.

D. No driver of any vehicle, or rider of any animal, shall drive or ride said vehicle or animal upon any beach or other area devoted to recreational use, except on the driveways or paths provided therefor, nor hitch or fasten any animal, nor park any vehicle, upon any such place other than in a place provided and established therefor.

E. No person shall drive any dray, truck, wagon, cart or other traffic vehicle carrying or regularly used or employed in carrying goods, wares, merchandise, lumber, machinery, oil, manure, dirt, sand, soil, or any article of trade or commerce, or any offensive article or material whatsoever over the parks or roads or driveways therein, except when delivering any material to, or within, or removing such material from, any public park within the City, by authority or under the direction of the Director of Public Service, Director of Parks, or Director of Recreation.

(ORD-09-0021, § 11, 2009; Prior code § 3410.73)

The City Traffic Engineer shall maintain a record of all intersections at which stop controls are installed pursuant to this Chapter. Such record shall be available for public inspection at City hall during regular business hours.

(ORD-09-0021, § 12, 2009; Ord. C-7750 § 2, 2001; Ord. C-7669 § 1, 2000; Ord. C-7640 § 1, 1999; Ord. C-7569 § 2, 1998; Ord. C-7529 § 2, 1998; Ord. C-7451 § 1, 1997; Ord. C-7447 § 1, 1997; Ord. C-7414 § 1, 1996; Ord. C-7362 § 1, 1995; Ord. C-7197 § 3, 1994; Ord. C-7088 § 1, 1993: Ord. C-7068 § 5, 1993; Ord. C-6899 § 1, 1991; Ord. C-6888 § 3, 1991; Ord. C-6756 § 1, 1990; Ord. C-6695 § 1, 1990; Ord. C-6677 § 1, 1989; Ord. C-6644 § 2, 1989; Ord. C-6564 § 1, 1989; Ord. C-6318 § 1, 1986; Ord. C-6304 § 2, 1986: Ord. C-6213 § 1, 1985; Ord. C-6198 § 1, 1985; Ord. C-6067 § 1, 1984; Ord. C-5933 § 1, 1983; Ord. C-5874 § 7, 1982; Ord. C-5844 §§ 1, 2, 1982; Ord. C-5790 § 5, 1981; Ord. C-5739 § 3, 1981; Ord. C-5711 § 3, 1981; Ord. C-5570 § 7, 1980; Ord. C-5540 §§ 2, 3, 1979; Ord. C-5517 § 4, 1979; Ord. C-5442 § 5, 1978: Ord. C-5248 § 1 (part), 1976; Ord. C-5241 § 1 (part), 1976; Ord. C-5235 § 1 (part), 1976; Ord. C-5233 § 1 (part), 1976; prior code § 3410.138)

Except as otherwise provided in this Chapter, and except as amended or altered from time to time under the authority of this Chapter, all traffic signs, signals, markings and controls heretofore placed in the City shall remain in full force and effect. The elimination from this Code of previously enumerated locations for signs, signals, marking or controls does not constitute the repeal of such regulations. No person shall drive or park any vehicle or device, nor walk in violation of such signs, signals, markings and controls.

(Ord. C-7750 § 3, 2001; prior code § 3410.139)