Chapter 10.24 — TURNING MOVEMENTS

Lanes - Transportation Engineer.

• A. The Transportation 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. The Transportation Engineer is authorized to allocate and indicate more than one lane of traffic from which drivers or 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.

• 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.

• (Prior code §31.45; Ord. 2713, 1959)

The Transportation 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, when such signs are required by the State Vehicle Code. The making of such turns may be prohibited between certain hours of any day and permitted at other hours, in which event they shall be plainly indicated on the signs or they may be removed by the Chief of Police when such turns are permitted.

(Prior code §31.46; Ord. 2713, 1959)

No vehicle shall be turned at any time in a complete circle or in such a manner as to proceed in the opposite direction upon the street upon which such vehicle is traveling at the time of entering any intersection on State Street between the northwesterly line of Micheltorena Street and the southwesterly line of Gutierrez Street.

(Prior code §31.47; Ord. 2713, 1959)

Whenever authorized signs are 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. (Prior code §31.48; Ord. 2713, 1959)

The Transportation Engineer is hereby authorized to determine those intersections within any business or residence district at which drivers of vehicles shall not make rights or left turns against a traffic signal and shall erect proper signs giving notice of such prohibition. No driver of a vehicle shall disobey the directions of any such sign. (Prior code §31.49; Ord. 2713, 1959)