Plumas County Municipal Code Art. 9 Standards for School Crossing Guards and Traffic Monitors

For the purposes of this article, unless otherwise apparent from the context, certain words and phrases used in this article are defined as follows:

(a) "Crossing guard" shall mean any adult person who controls traffic by means of accompanying student and non-student pedestrians across a roadway with the aid of a hand-held stop sign.

(b) "Traffic monitor" shall mean an adult person who facilitates the orderly flow of traffic by standing at or near the side of a roadway and permitting student and non-student pedestrians to cross only after several have gathered together or when they can cross without disrupting traffic. A traffic monitor remains on the side of the roadway and does not accompany pedestrians across the roadway.

(§ 2, Ord. 82-514, eff. September 9, 1982)

(a) Crossing guards shall be used at crossings where the student pedestrians are traveling to or from an elementary school.

(b) Traffic monitors shall be used at crossings where the student pedestrians are traveling to or from a junior high school or a senior high school.

(§ 2, Ord. 82-514, eff. September 9, 1982)

The County shall provide funds to employ adults as school crossing guards and traffic monitors when the following criteria are met:

(a) At uncontrolled crossings where there is no alternate controlled crossing within 600 feet; and

(1) Where the critical approach speed is less than forty (40) miles per hour, and the vehicular traffic volume exceeds 350 in each of any two (2) daily hours during which forty (40) or more school pedestrians cross while going to or from school; or

(2) Where the critical approach speed exceeds forty (40) miles per hour, and the vehicular traffic volume exceeds 300 in each of any two (2) daily hours during which thirty (30) or more school pedestrians cross while going to or from school;

(b) At stop sign controlled crossings where the vehicular traffic volume on undivided highways of four (4) or more lanes exceeds 500 per hour during any period when the school pedestrians are going to or from school; and

(c) At traffic signal controlled crossings where either:

(1) The number of vehicular turning movements through the school crosswalk exceeds 300 per hour while school pedestrians are going to or from school; or

(2) Where there are circumstances not normally present at a signalized intersection, such as crosswalks more than eighty (80') feet long with no intermediate refuge, or an abnormally high proportion of large commercial vehicles.

(§ 2, Ord. 82-514, eff. September 9, 1982)

(a) The County Superintendent of Schools shall be responsible for determining which pedestrian crossings in the County meet the standards set forth in Section 4-3.903 of this article. Technical assistance in determining whether the standards have been met may be sought from any County department.

(b) When it is established to the satisfaction of the County Superintendent of Schools that the standards have been met, he shall so inform the Board of Supervisors. The Board shall then appropriate an amount of money to the County Superintendent of Schools which is adequate, in the opinion of the Board, to hire the necessary crossing guards. Normally the money will be appropriated to hire the new crossing guards at the start of the next school year, but if conditions at an intersection are hazardous enough to require a crossing guard immediately, the Board may appropriate the money to hire the necessary guards immediately.

(§ 2, Ord. 82-514, eff. September 9, 1982)

The County Superintendent of Schools shall be responsible for hiring and supervising the necessary crossing guards. The County Superintendent of Schools, however, may delegate such responsibility to a local school district.

(§ 2, Ord. 82-514, eff. September 9, 1982)

(a) It shall be an infraction for any person driving a motor vehicle, or any student or non-student pedestrian, to disobey the traffic directions of a crossing guard when such crossing guard is wearing an official insignia issued by the County Superintendent of Schools.

(b) It shall be an infraction for any student or non-student pedestrian to disobey the traffic directions of a traffic monitor when such traffic monitor is wearing an official insignia issued by the County Superintendent of Schools.

(§ 2, Ord. 82-514, eff. September 9, 1982)