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Title 4 — Public Safety›Chapter 3 — TRAFFIC

Los Altos Hills Municipal Code Art. 7 Special Stops Required

Los Altos Hills Municipal Code · 2026-10 edition · updated 2026-10-04 · Los Altos Hills

Cite as: Los Altos Hills Municipal Code Article 7 · Text as of 2026-10-04

§ 4-3.701. Stop signs.

Whenever any ordinance or resolution of the Town designates and describes any street, or portion thereof, as a through street, or any intersection at which vehicles are required to stop at one or more entrances thereto, the Chief of Police shall erect and maintain stop signs on each and every street intersecting such through street, or portion thereof, so designated and at those entrances to other intersections where a stop is required, and at any railroad grade crossing so designated. Every such sign shall conform with, and shall be placed as provided in, the Vehicle Code.

Stop signs shall not be erected or maintained at any entrance to an intersection where such entrance is controlled by an official traffic control signal.

(§ 7, Art. VII, Ord. 87, as amended by § 4, Ord. 103)

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§ 4-3.702. Designation of through streets and stop intersections.

(a) Through Streets. Those streets and parts of streets established by resolution of the Council are hereby declared to be through streets for the purposes of this section.

(b) Stop Intersections. The provisions of this section shall also apply at one or more entrances to intersections as such entrances and intersections are established by resolution of the Council.

(§ 7.1, Art. VII, Ord. 87)

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§ 4-3.703. Emerging from alleys, driveways, and buildings.

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 or driveway.

(§ 7.2, Art. VII, Ord. 87)

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