Truckee Municipal Code Ch. 10.04 Traffic Control Devices

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 ordinances of the Town to make effective the provisions of the Vehicle Code or ordinances, and may place and maintain or cause to be placed and maintained, such appropriate official traffic control devices as may be deemed necessary properly to indicate and to carry out the provisions of the Vehicle Code or ordinances or to warn or guide traffic.

No provision of the Vehicle Code or of this Title 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 provision of the traffic laws.

(a) The traffic engineer shall, subject to the fiscal determination of the Town Council, 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 alternately interrupted and released in order to prevent or relieve traffic congestion or to protect life or property from exceptional hazard.

(b) The traffic engineer shall ascertain and determine the locations where such signals are required by an engineering and traffic survey and 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.

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

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.

The traffic engineer is to place and maintain upon highways distinctive roadway markings as described in the Vehicle Code.

The traffic engineer is to remove, relocate or discontinue the operation of any traffic control device not specifically required by the Vehicle Code or this Title whenever it shall be determined in any particular case that the conditions which warranted or required the installation no longer exist.

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 Title.

It is unlawful for any person or agency, unless authorized by the traffic engineer, to 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 Town pertaining thereto.

(ORD 93-23 09-02-93)