Watsonville Municipal Code Art. 7 Special Stops Required

Whenever any ordinance or resolution of the 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, or any railroad grade crossing at which vehicles are required to stop, the City Engineer shall erect and maintain stop signs as follows:

A stop sign shall be erected on each and every street intersecting such through street, or portion thereof, so designated and at those entrances of other intersections where a stop is required and at any railroad grade crossing so designated. Every such sign shall conform with, and be placed as provided in, Section 471 of the Vehicle Code of the State.

(§ 1, Art. VII, Ord. 486 N.C.S.)

(a) When stop signs are erected as provided in this chapter at the entrance to any intersection or at any railway grade crossing, every driver of a vehicle shall stop as required by the Vehicle Code of the State.

(b) Those streets and parts of streets described in Section 4-5.1602 of this chapter are hereby declared to be through streets for the purposes of this section.

(c) The provisions of this section shall apply at one or more entrances to the intersections as such entrances and intersections are described in Section 4-5.1603 of this chapter.

(d) The provisions of this section shall apply at those highway railway grade crossings as described in Section 4-5.1604.

(§ 2, Art. VII, Ord. 486 N.C.S.)

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.

(§ 3, Art. VII, Ord. 486 N.C.S.)