Ontario Municipal Code Art. 4 Traffic Control Devices

(a) The City Traffic Engineer shall have the power and duty to place and maintain, or cause to be placed and maintained, official traffic control devices when and as required to make effective the provisions of this chapter.

(b) Whenever the Vehicle Code requires, for the effectiveness of any provisions thereof, that traffic control devices shall be installed to give notice to the public of the application of such law, the City Traffic Engineer is hereby authorized to install, or cause to be installed, the necessary devices, subject to any limitations or restrictions set forth in the laws applicable thereto.

(c) The City Traffic Engineer may also place and maintain, or cause to be placed and maintained, such additional traffic control devices as he may deem necessary or proper to regulate traffic or to guide or warn traffic; provided, however, that he shall make such determination only upon the basis of traffic engineering principles and traffic investigations and in accordance with the standards, limitations, and rules set forth in this chapter or as determined by ordinance or resolution of the Council.

(§ 4, Ord. 1651, eff. July 20, 1967)

The City Traffic Engineer is hereby authorized to remove, relocate, or discontinue the operation of any traffic control device not specifically required by the provisions of the Vehicle Code or this chapter whenever he shall determine in any particular case that the conditions which warranted or required the installation no longer exist or pertain.

(§ 4.6, Ord. 1651, eff. July 20, 1967)

The operator of any vehicle or train shall obey the instructions of official traffic control devices placed in accordance with the provisions of this chapter unless otherwise directed by a police officer or other authorized person, subject, however, to the exceptions granted the operator of an authorized emergency vehicle when responding to emergency calls.

(§ 4.2, Ord. 1651, eff. July 20, 1967)

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

(§ 4.7, Ord. 1651, eff. July 20, 1967)

(a) The City Traffic Engineer is hereby directed to install and maintain official traffic signals at the 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 City Traffic Engineer shall ascertain and determine the locations where such signals are required by field investigations, traffic counts, and other traffic information as may be pertinent, and his determinations therefrom shall be made in accordance with the traffic engineering and safety standards and instructions set forth in the Uniform Standards and Specifications promulgated by the California Department of Transportation.

(c) Whenever the City Traffic Engineer installs and maintains an official traffic signal at any intersection, he shall likewise erect and maintain at such intersection street name signs clearly visible to traffic approaching from all directions unless such street name signs have previously been placed and are maintained at such intersection.

(§ 4.3, Ord. 1651, eff. July 20, 1967)

No provision of the Vehicle Code or this chapter for which signs are required shall be enforced against an alleged violator unless appropriate legible signs are in place giving notice of such Vehicle Code or chapter provisions.

(§ 4.1, Ord. 1651, eff. July 20, 1967)

(a) Center and lane lines. The City Traffic Engineer is hereby 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.

(b) Prohibiting driving on left side of roadway. The City Traffic Engineer is hereby authorized to place and maintain distinctive roadway markings, as described in the Vehicle Code, on those streets or parts of streets where the volume of traffic or the vertical or other curvature of the roadway renders it hazardous to drive on the left side of such markings or signs and markings. Such markings or signs and markings shall have the same effect as similar markings placed by the California Department of Transportation pursuant to the provisions of the Vehicle Code.

(§§ 4.4 and 4.5, Ord. 1651, eff. July 20, 1967)

No person, unless authorized by the City, shall paint any street or curb surface; provided, however, that the provisions of this section shall not apply to the painting of numbers on a curb surface by any person who has complied with the provisions of any resolution or ordinance of the City pertaining thereto.

(§ 4.8, Ord. 1651, eff. July 20, 1967)