Martinez Municipal Code Ch. 2.16 City Traffic Engineer

The office of City Traffic Engineer is established. The City Traffic Engineer shall be appointed by the City Manager and he shall exercise the powers and duties as provided in this Chapter, and Title 10 of the Martinez Municipal Code. Whenever the City Traffic Engineer is required or authorized to place and/or maintain official traffic-control devices or signals, he may cause such devices or signals to be placed and/or maintained.

(Prior code § 3201)

It shall be the general duty of the City Traffic Engineer to determine the installation and proper timing and maintenance of traffic-control devices and signals, to conduct engineering analyses of traffic accidents and to devise remedial measures, to conduct engineering and traffic investigations of traffic conditions and to cooperate with other City officials 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 City. Whenever, by the provisions of this Chapter and Title 10, a power is granted to the City Traffic Engineer or a duty imposed upon him, the power may be exercised or the duty performed by his deputy or by a person authorized in writing by him.

(Prior code § 3201.1; Ord. 1039 C.S. § 13, 1985)