Walnut Creek Municipal Code Art. 4 Traffic Control Devices

a. The City Transportation Engineer shall direct the placement of official traffic control devices when required to make effective provisions of this chapter, and may direct the placement of such additional official traffic control devices as he may deem necessary to regulate, warn or guide traffic under this chapter or the Vehicle Code.

b. No provisions of the Vehicle Code or of this chapter for which signs are required shall be enforced against an alleged violator unless appropriate signs giving notice of the provisions of the traffic laws are in place and sufficiently legible to be seen by an ordinarily observant person.

c. It shall be unlawful for a pedestrian or the operator of any vehicle to disobey the instructions of any official traffic control device placed in accordance with this chapter unless otherwise directed by a police officer subject to the exceptions granted the operator of an authorized emergency vehicle when responding to emergency calls.

(§ 1, Ord. 1338, eff. February 2, 1978)

a. The City Transportation Engineer shall recommend to the City Council the installation of 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 congestion or to protect life or property from exceptional hazard.

b. The City Transportation Engineer shall ascertain and determine the locations where such signals are required by resorting to field observation, traffic counts, and other traffic information as may be pertinent, and his determinations therefrom shall be made in accordance with those traffic engineering and safety standards and instructions set forth in the Traffic Manual issued by the California Department of Transportation.

(§ 1, Ord. 1338, eff. February 2, 1978)

The City Transportation Engineer is authorized to mark traffic lanes upon the roadway of any street or highway where a regular alignment of traffic is necessary.

(§ 1, Ord. 1338, eff. February 2, 1978)

The City Transportation Engineer is authorized to direct the removal or relocation of any traffic control device not specifically required by state law or this chapter whenever it is determined that the conditions which warranted or required the installation no longer exist.

(§ 1, Ord. 1338, eff. February 2, 1978)

The City Transportation Engineer shall determine the hours and days during which any traffic control device shall be in operation or effect, except in those cases where such hours or days are specified in this chapter.

(§ 1, Ord. 1338, eff. February 2, 1978)

No person, unless authorized by this City, shall paint any street or curb or surface.

(§ 1, Ord. 1338, eff. February 2, 1978)