South Lake Tahoe Municipal Code Art. IV Operation of Vehicles

There is hereby established a 25-mile-per-hour prima facie speed limit on the following portions of city streets, when signs are placed as required by law:

A. Lyons Avenue, from Lake Tahoe Boulevard (U.S. Highway 50) to its termination at the intersection with Rufus Allen Boulevard.

B. Rufus Allen Boulevard, from Lake Tahoe Boulevard (U.S. Highway 50) to its termination at the intersection with Lyons Avenue.

C. Glenwood Way, from Fairway to Pioneer Trail.

D. Martin Avenue, from O'Malley Drive to the city limits.

E. Al Tahoe Boulevard, from Johnson Boulevard to Lake Tahoe Boulevard (U.S. Highway 50).

F. Pioneer Trail from Lake Tahoe Boulevard (U.S. Highway 50) to Keller Road.

G. Lakeview Avenue from Berkeley Avenue to Lake Tahoe Boulevard (U.S. Highway 50).

H. Park Avenue from Lake Tahoe Boulevard (U.S. Highway 50) to Lakeshore Boulevard.

(Ord. 21 § 2; Ord. 142 § 1; Ord. 188 § 1; Ord. 425 § 1; Ord. 1192 § 1; Code 1997 § 16-23)

There is hereby established a 30-mile-per-hour prima facie speed limit on the following portions of city streets, when signs are placed as required by law:

A. Keys Boulevard, from Lake Tahoe Boulevard (U.S. Highway 50) to Venice Drive.

B. Pioneer Trail, from Keller Road to Ski Run Boulevard.

C. Ski Run Boulevard, from Lake Tahoe Boulevard (U.S. Highway 50) to Pioneer Trail.

D. Lake Tahoe Boulevard, from State Route 89 to D Street.

E. Sierra Boulevard, from Lake Tahoe Boulevard (U.S. Highway 50) to Barbara Avenue.

(Ord. 142 § 2; Ord. 188 § 2; Ord. 425 § 2; Ord. 1192 § 2; Ord. 1201 § 1; Code 1997 § 16-23.1)

There is hereby established a 35-mile-per-hour prima facie speed limit on the following portions of city streets, when signs are placed as required by law:

A. Lake Tahoe Boulevard, from Lake Tahoe Boulevard (U.S. Highway 50) westward to the city limits.

B. Johnson Boulevard, from the intersection of Treehaven Drive, southward to the intersection of Happy Home Cemetery Road.

C. Pioneer Trail, from Ski Run Boulevard to Al Tahoe Boulevard.

D. Ski Run Boulevard, between Pioneer Trail and Needle Peak Drive.

(Ord. 142 § 2; Ord. 188 § 2; Ord. 425 § 3; Ord. 1192 § 3; Ord. 1201 § 2; Code 1997 § 16-23.2)

There is hereby established a 40-mile-per-hour prima facie speed limit on the following portions of city streets, when signs are placed as required by law:

A. Al Tahoe Boulevard, from Pioneer Trail to Johnson Boulevard.

B. Pioneer Trail, from Al Tahoe Boulevard to the city limits.

(Ord. 425 § 4; Ord. 1192 § 4; Code 1997 § 16-23.3)

Whenever any ordinance or resolution of this city designates any one-way street or alley, the city traffic engineer shall place and maintain signs giving notice thereof, and no such regulations shall be effective unless such signs are in place. Signs indicating the direction of lawful traffic movement shall be placed at every intersection where movement of traffic in the opposite direction is prohibited.

(Ord. 21 § 2; Code 1997 § 16-24)

The following streets in the city are hereby designated as one-way streets and traffic thereon shall be permitted only in the direction indicated:

A. Echo Road: In a southeasterly direction away from Lake Tahoe Boulevard (U.S. 50) and Pioneer Trail.

B. Fern Road: In a northwesterly direction towards Lake Tahoe Boulevard (U.S. 50) and Pioneer Trail.

C. Brockway Avenue: Northerly from Lake Tahoe Boulevard (U.S. 50) to Sussex.

(Code 1997 § 16-24.1)

The city traffic engineer is authorized to place official traffic-control devices within or adjacent to intersections, indicating the course to be traveled by vehicles turning at such intersections, and the city traffic engineer is authorized to locate and indicate more than one lane of traffic from which drivers of 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 or ordinance.

(Ord. 21 § 2; Code 1997 § 16-25)

The city traffic engineer is hereby 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. The making of such turns may be prohibited between certain hours of any day and permitted at other hours, in which event the same shall be plainly indicated on the signs or they may be removed when such turns are permitted.

(Ord. 21 § 2; Code 1997 § 16-26)

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 city traffic engineer shall erect and maintain stop signs as follows: A stop sign shall be erected on every street intersecting such through street or portion thereof so designated and at those entrances to other intersections where a stop is required; provided, that 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 State Vehicle Code.

(Ord. 21 § 2; Code 1997 § 16-28)

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, or, where there is no sidewalk, immediately prior to entering onto the traveled portion of a street or highway.

(Ord. 21 § 2; Code 1997 § 16-29)

No person shall operate or drive a commercial vehicle in, on or across any private driveway approach or sidewalk area or the driveway itself without the consent of the owner or occupant of the property, if a sign or markings are in place indicating that the use of such driveway is prohibited.

(Code 1997 § 16-31)

No person shall ride or drive any animal or any vehicle over or across any newly made pavement or freshly painted markings in any street when a barrier sign, cone marker or other warning device is in place warning persons not to drive over or across such pavement or marking, or when any such device is in place indicating that the street or any portion thereof is closed.

(Ord. 21 § 2; Code 1997 § 16-32)