Ridgecrest Municipal Code § 15-84 Traffic control devices: hours of operation

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State Law reference— Traffic signs, signals and markings, Vehicle Code § 21350 et seq.; obedience to local traffic signs, Vehicle Code § 21461.5.

The traffic engineer shall place and maintain or cause to be placed and maintained official traffic control devices upon streets and highways as required under the vehicle code or the traffic ordinance of the city to make effective the provisions of the code, resolutions, or the ordinances of the city, and may place and maintain or cause to be placed and maintained, such appropriate official traffic control devices as he may deem necessary to properly indicate and to carry out the provisions of this chapter or to warn or guide traffic.

(Code 1980, § 4-1.401; Ord. No. 89-10, § 2)

No provision of the vehicle code or of this chapter for which official traffic control devices are required shall be enforced against an alleged violator unless appropriate official traffic control devices are in place giving notice of such provisions of the traffic laws.

(Code 1980, § 4-1.402; Ord. No. 89-10, § 2)

(a) The traffic engineer may install and maintain official traffic signals at those intersections and other places where traffic conditions are such as to require that the flow of traffic be alternatively interrupted and released in order to prevent or relieve traffic congestion or to protect life or property from exceptional hazard when such traffic signals are authorized by the city council.

(b) The traffic engineer shall ascertain and determine the locations where such signals are required by an engineering and traffic survey and his determinations therefrom shall be made in accordance with those traffic engineering and safety standards and instructions set forth in the department of transportation traffic manual and recommend such locations to the city council.

(c) The traffic engineer shall erect and maintain at each signal-controlled intersection street name signs clearly visible to traffic approaching from all directions.

(Code 1980, § 4-1.403; Ord. No. 89-10, § 2)

The traffic engineer shall have authority to mark traffic lanes upon the roadway of any street or highway where a regular alignment of traffic is necessary.

(Code 1980, § 4-1.404; Ord. No. 89-10, § 2)

The traffic engineer may place and maintain upon highways distinctive roadway markings as described in the vehicle code and the Manual for Uniform Traffic Control Devices.

(Code 1980, § 4-1.405; Ord. No. 89-10, § 2)

The traffic engineer may remove, relocate or discontinue the operation of any traffic control device not specifically required by 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.

(Code 1980, § 4-1.406; Ord. No. 89-10, § 2)

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 chapter.

(Code 1980, § 4-1.407; Ord. No. 89-10, § 2)

No person or agency unless authorized by the traffic engineer, shall paint any street or curb surface; provided, however, that 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 ordinance or resolution of the city pertaining thereto.

(Code 1980, § 4-1.408; Ord. No. 89-10, § 2)