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Title 10 — VEHICLES AND TRAFFIC

Nevada City Municipal Code Ch. 10.16 Turning Movements

Nevada City Municipal Code · 2026-10 edition · updated 2026-10-04 · Nevada City

Cite as: Nevada City Municipal Code Chapter 10.16 · Text as of 2026-10-04

10.16.010 - Installation of lane markers and signs.

A. The chief of police is authorized to place markers, buttons or signs within or adjacent to intersections indicating the course to be traveled by vehicles turning at such intersections, and the chief of police is authorized to allocate and indicate more than one lane of traffic from which drivers of vehicles may make right or left hand turns, and the course to be traveled as so indicated may conform to or be other than as prescribed by law or ordinance.

B. When authorized markers, buttons or other indications are placed within an intersection indicating the course to be traveled by vehicles turning thereat, no driver of a vehicle shall disobey the directions of such indications.

(Ord. 274 § 30, 1954)

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10.16.020 - Placement of restricted turn signs.

The chief of police is authorized to determine those intersections at which drivers of vehicles shall not make a right, left or U-turn, and shall place proper signs at such intersections. The making of such turns may be prohibited between certain hours of any day and permitted at other hours, in which event the same shall be plainly indicated on the signs or they may be removed when such turns are permitted.

(Ord. 274 § 31, 1954)

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10.16.030 - Compliance with signs.

Whenever authorized signs are in erected indicating that no right or left or U-turn is permitted, no driver of a vehicle shall disobey the directions of any such sign.

(Ord. 274 § 32, 1954)

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10.16.040 - Authority to prohibit right turn against signal.

The chief of police is authorized to determine those intersections within any business or residence district at which drivers of vehicles shall not make a right turn against a red or stop signal and shall erect proper signs giving notice of such prohibition. No driver of a vehicle shall disobey the direction of any such sign.

(Ord. 274 § 33, 1954)

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