Signal Hill Municipal Code Ch. 10.20 Through and Stop Streets

A. Whenever any ordinance or 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, the public works director shall erect and maintain stop signs as set forth in subsection B of this section.

B. A stop sign shall be erected on each and every street intersecting such through street or portion thereof so designated and at those entrances to other intersections where a stop is required; provided, however, stop signs shall not be erected or maintained at any entrance to an intersection when such entrance is controlled by an official traffic-control signal. Every such sign shall conform with and shall be placed as provided in the Vehicle Code.

(Prior code § 11.20.010 (Ord. 581 § 7, 1965))

A. Those streets and parts of streets established by resolution of the council are declared to be through streets for the purposes of this chapter.

B. The provisions of this chapter shall also apply at one or more entrances to the intersections as such entrances and intersections are established by resolution of the council.

C. The provisions of this chapter shall apply at those highway railway grade crossings as established by resolution of the council.

(Prior code § 11.20.020 (Ord. 581 § 7.1, 1965))

The driver of a vehicle emerging from an alley, driveway, or building shall stop such vehicle immediately prior to driving onto a sidewalk or into the sidewalk area extending across any alley way or driveway.

(Prior code § 11.20.030 (Ord. 581 § 7.2, 1965))