Marin County Municipal Code Ch. 15.01 Traffic Orders

The purpose of this chapter is to establish a procedure for the adoption of traffic regulations applying to particular streets, highways, intersections or areas within the unincorporated limits of the county.

(Ord. 2206 § 1 (part), 1976)

The county director of public works may make traffic orders establishing any of the following regulations:

(a) Regulating traffic by means of official traffic-control devices;

(b) Designating particular highways as one-way highways and requiring that all vehicles thereon be moved in one specified direction;

(c) Closing any highway or a portion of it, when, in the opinion of the county director of public works, the highway is no longer needed or cannot safely be used for vehicular traffic;

(d) Designating any highway as a through highway and requiring that all vehicles stop before entering or crossing the highway;

(e) Designating any intersection as a stop intersection and requiring all vehicles to stop at one or more entrances to the intersection;

(f) Establishing crosswalks between intersections;

(g) Directing that pedestrians shall not cross in a crosswalk indicated at an intersection;

(h) Requiring that all vehicles stop before entering or crossing the tracks at any highway railroad grade crossing;

(i) Prohibiting or restricting the making of any turning movement by any vehicle at any intersection or between any designated intersections;

(j) Prohibiting or restricting the parking, stopping or standing of vehicles on certain streets or highways, or portions thereof, during all or certain hours of the day;

(k) Declaring a prima facie speed limit of thirty, thirty-five, forty, forty-five, fifty, or fifty-five miles per hour on any street other than a state highway otherwise subject to a prima facie speed limit of twenty-five miles per hour;

(l) Declaring a prima facie speed limit of fifty, forty-five, forty, thirty-five, thirty, or twenty-five miles per hour on any portion of any street other than a state highway where the street is subject to a speed limit of fifty-five miles per hour;

(m) Regulating the installation and operation of any mechanical devices for the control of vehicular and pedestrian traffic;

(n) Establishing weight limitation for vehicles traveling over county roads or bridges;

(o) Providing for the delineation of parking space;

(p) Designating parking spaces for the exclusive use of persons with physically disabilities;

(q) Authorizing the removal of vehicles parked or left standing where such parking or standing has been prohibited;

(r) Designating certain streets upon which preferential parking privileges shall be given to residents and merchants adjacent to such streets.;hn0;(Ord. 2392 § 1, 1979; Ord. 2217 § 1, 1976; Ord. 2206 § 1 (part), 1976)

(Ord. No. 3522, § V, 2009)

Every traffic order made under Section 15.01.020 shall be based on a traffic and engineering survey and shall conform with accepted principles and practices of traffic engineering.

(Ord. 2206 § 1 (part), 1976)

No traffic order shall be effective until:

(1) It has been adopted by resolution of the board of supervisors; and

(2) Appropriate signs or markings meeting the requirements of the Vehicle Code of the State of California are placed to give notice of the regulation to the traveling public.

(Ord. 2206 § 1 (part), 1976)

(a) Resolutions adopting traffic orders shall be numbered consecutively, in a numerical series separate from that applied to other resolutions of the board of supervisors.

(b) Copy of each resolution adopting a traffic order shall be filed with the county director of public works, the clerk of the municipal court, the local office of the California Highway Patrol and the Marin County Sheriff.

(Ord. 2206 § 1 (part), 1976)

Except as otherwise provided, every person violating a traffic order adopted under this chapter shall be guilty of an infraction and shall be punished upon the first conviction by a fine not exceeding seventy-five dollars and for a second conviction within the period of one year by a fine not exceeding one hundred fifty dollars, and for a third or any subsequent conviction within the period of one year by a fine not exceeding three hundred dollars.

(Ord. 2206 § 1 (part), 1976)

(Ord. No. 3558, § 1, 2011)