Chapter 10.12 — TRAFFIC CONTROL DEVICES

A.

The Traffic Engineer shall have the exclusive power and duty to place and maintain or cause to be placed and maintained official traffic control devices when and as required under the traffic regulations of this city to make effective the provisions of said regulations.

B.

Whenever the Vehicle Code of this state requires, for the effectiveness of any provision thereof, that traffic control devices be installed to give notice to the public of the application of such law, the Traffic Engineer is authorized to install the necessary devices subject to any limitations or restrictions set forth in the law applicable thereto.

C.

The Traffic Engineer may also place and maintain such additional traffic control devices as he or she may deem necessary to regulate traffic or to guide or warn traffic, but he or she shall make such determination only upon the basis of traffic engineering principles and traffic investigations and in accordance with such standards, limitations and rules as may be set forth in the traffic regulations of this city or as may be hereafter determined by the legislative body of this city.

(Prior traffic code § 60)

No provisions of the Vehicle Code or of this title for which signs are required shall be enforced against an alleged violator unless appropriate signs are in place and sufficiently legible to be seen by an ordinarily observant person, giving notice of such provisions of the traffic laws.

(Prior traffic code § 61)

A.

Official traffic signals shall be installed and maintained at those intersections and other places where traffic conditions are such as to require that the flow of traffic be alternately interrupted and released in order to prevent or relieve traffic congestion or to protect life or property from exceptional hazard.

B.

The Traffic Engineer shall ascertain and determine the locations where such signals are required by resort to field observation, traffic counts and other traffic information as may be pertinent and his or her determinations therefrom shall be made in accordance with those traffic engineering and safety standards and instructions set forth in the California Maintenance Manual issued by the Division of Highways of the State Department of Public Works.

(Prior traffic code § 63)

The Traffic Engineer is authorized to mark center lines and lane lines upon the surface of the roadway to indicate the course to be traveled by vehicles and may place signs temporarily designating lanes to be used by traffic moving in a particular direction, regardless of the center line of the highway.

(Ord. 12607 § 2 (part), 2004:Prior traffic code § 64)

The Traffic Engineer is authorized to remove, relocate or discontinue the operation of any traffic control device not specifically required by state law or this title whenever he or she shall determine in any particular case that the conditions which warranted or required the installation no longer exist or obtain.

(Prior traffic code § 65)

The Traffic Engineer shall determine the hours and days during which any traffic control device shall be in operation or be in effect, except in those cases where such hours or days are specified in this title.

(Prior traffic code § 66)

It is unlawful for any person, without authority from the city, to place or maintain paint or other material upon any curb in the city in a manner which purports to be, or is, an imitation of or resembles official indication of parking regulations.

(Prior traffic code § 67)

A.

Authority to Place and Obedience to Turning Markers.

The Traffic Engineer 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 Traffic Engineer 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 such course to be traveled as so indicated may conform to or be other than as prescribed by law or this title.

B.

Authority to Place Restricted Turn Signs. The Traffic Engineer 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.

C.

Authority to Prohibit Right Turns Against Traffic Stop Signal. The Traffic Engineer is authorized to determine those intersections 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 directions of any such sign.

(Ord. 12607 § 2 (part), 2004: Prior traffic code §§ 70—73)

A.

Traffic Engineer to Erect Stop Signs. Whenever any 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 Traffic Engineer shall erect and maintain stop signs as follows:

A stop sign shall be erected on each and every street intersecting 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 Section 471 of the Vehicle Code.

B.

Stop at Through Street or Stop Sign.

Those streets and parts of streets described in such resolution, and those streets and parts of streets heretofore designated and signed by this city as through streets until other designations are made, are declared to be through streets for the purposes of this section.

The provisions of this section shall also apply at one or more entrances to the intersections as such entrances and intersections have been heretofore designated and signed by this city until other designations are made or as may be hereafter described in such resolution.

The provisions of this section shall also apply at those railroad grade crossings as such railroad grade crossings have been heretofore designated and signed by this city until other designations are made or as may be hereafter described in such resolution.

(Ord. 12607 § 2 (part), 2004:Prior traffic code §§ 90, 91)