Monterey Municipal Code Div. 3 Stop Intersections

Whenever any ordinance or resolution of this City 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, or any railroad grade crossing at which vehicles are required to stop, the City Traffic Engineer shall erect and maintain stop signs as follows:

A stop sign shall be erected on every street intersection such through street or portion thereof so designated and at those entrances of 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 State Vehicle Code.

Whenever any ordinance or resolution of this City designates and describes any street or portion thereof as a secondary arterial or any intersection at which vehicles are required to yield at one or more entrances thereto, the City Traffic Engineer shall erect and maintain yield signs as follows:

A yield sign shall be erected on every street intersecting such secondary arterial, or portion thereof so designated, at those entrances or other intersections where a yield sign is required. Every such sign shall conform to and shall be placed as provided in Section 21356 of the State Vehicle Code.

a.Those streets and parts of streets so established by resolution of the City Council are hereby declared to be through streets for the purpose of this Section.

b.The provisions of this Section shall also apply at one or more entrances to the intersections as such entrances and intersections are established by resolution of the City Council.

c.The provisions of this Section shall apply at those highway railway grade crossings as established by resolution of the City Council.

d.When stop signs are erected as provided in this Division at the entrance to any intersection, every driver of a vehicle shall stop as required by State Vehicle Code.

a.Those streets and parts of streets so established by resolution of the City Council are hereby declared to be secondary arterial streets for the purposes of this Section.

b.The provisions of this Section shall also apply at one or more entrances to the intersections as such entrances and intersections are established by resolution of the City Council.

c.When yield signs are erected as provided in this Division at the entrance to any intersection, every driver of a vehicle shall slow down and stop if necessary and shall yield the right of way to other vehicles which have entered the intersection from an intersecting street or which are approaching so closely on the intersecting street so as to constitute an immediate hazard. Such driver having so yielded may then proceed and the drivers of all other vehicles approaching the intersection on the intersecting roadway shall yield the right of way to the vehicle so about to enter or cross the roadway protected by the yield right of way sign, all as required by the State Vehicle Code.

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 are extending across any alley way or driveway.