Madera County Municipal Code Ch. 2.29 Traffic Engineer

The county hereby creates and establishes the office of traffic engineer.

(Ord. 547 § 1(part), 1992).

The director of public works shall exercise the powers and duties of the traffic engineer.

(Ord. No. 585D, § 3, 9-9-14; Ord. 547 § 1(part), 1992).

It shall be the duty of the county traffic engineer to determine the installation, operation and maintenance of traffic control devices; conduct engineering analyses of traffic accidents; devise remedial measures; and conduct engineering and traffic investigation of traffic conditions. The engineer shall also cooperate with the county sheriff, the California Highway Patrol and other state and county officers in the development of ways and means to improve traffic conditions, and to carry out the additional powers and duties imposed by ordinances of this county.

(Ord. 547 § 1(part), 1992).

The county traffic engineer shall place and maintain, or cause to be placed and maintained, official traffic control devices upon roads, streets, and highways as required under the Vehicle Code or county traffic ordinances to make effective the provisions of the Code or ordinances. Additionally, the county traffic engineer shall make, place and maintain, or cause to be placed and maintained, such appropriate official traffic control devices as the engineer may deem necessary to properly indicate and carry out the provisions of the Vehicle Code or the ordinances or to warn or guide traffic.

(Ord. 547 § 1(part), 1992).

Editor's note— Ord. No. 690, § 2, adopted November 10, 2020 renumbered § 2.29.050 as § 10.36.010 and renamed said section from authority to prohibit parking at certain locations to parking prohibited.