Whittier Municipal Code Ch. 10.12 Traffic-Control Devices

A. The city traffic engineer shall have the power and duty to place and maintain or cause to be placed and maintained official traffic-control devices when and as required to make effective the provisions of this title.

B. Whenever the Vehicle Code requires for the effectiveness of any provision thereof that traffic-control devices be installed to give notice to the public of the application of such law, the city traffic engineer is authorized to install or cause to be installed the necessary devices subject to any limitations or restrictions set forth in the law applicable thereto.

C. The city traffic engineer may also place and maintain or cause to be placed and maintained such additional traffic-control devices as he/she may deem necessary or proper to regulate traffic or guide and warn traffic, but he/she shall make such determination only upon the basis of traffic engineering principles and traffic investigations and in accordance with such standards, limitations and rules as may be set forth in this title or as may be determined by ordinance or resolution of the city council.

(Prior code § 3420.40)

(Ord. No. 3112, § 2, 2-25-20)

No provision of the Vehicle Code or of this title for which signs are required shall be enforced against an alleged violator unless appropriate legible signs are in place giving notice of such provisions of the traffic laws.

(Prior code § 3420.41)

A. The city traffic engineer is directed, subject to budgetary limitations, to install and maintain official traffic signals at those intersections and other places where traffic conditions are such as to require the flow of traffic to be alternately interrupted and released in order to prevent or relieve the traffic congestion or to protect life or property from exceptional hazard.

B. The city traffic engineer shall ascertain and determine the locations where such signals are required by field investigation, traffic counts and other traffic information as may be pertinent, and his/her determinations therefrom shall be made in accordance with those traffic engineering and safety standards and instructions set forth in the California Maintenance Manual issued by the Department of Transportation. The determinations shall also be in compliance with any policy approved by the council.

(Ord. 2577 § 23, 1992; prior code § 3420.43)

(Ord. No. 3112, § 2, 2-25-20)

The city traffic engineer is authorized to mark center lanes and lane lines upon the surface of the roadway to indicate the course to be travelled by vehicles and may place signs temporarily designating lanes to be used by traffic moving in a particular direction regardless of the centerline of the highway.

(Prior code § 3420.44)

The city traffic engineer is authorized to place and maintain distinctive roadway markings as described in the California Vehicle Code on those streets or parts of streets where the volume of traffic or the vertical or other curvature of the roadway renders it hazardous to drive on the left side of the marking or signs and markings. The marking or signs and markings shall have the same effect as similar markings placed by the Department of Transportation pursuant to the provisions of the California Vehicle Code.

(Ord. 2577 § 24, 1992: prior code § 3420.45)

The city traffic engineer is authorized to remove, relocate or discontinue the operation of any traffic-control device, not specifically required by the Vehicle Code or this title, whenever he/she determines in any particular case that the conditions which warranted or required the installation no longer exist or obtain; provided, further, that his/her decisions in this regard will not violate a policy approved by the council.

(Prior code § 3420.46)

(Ord. No. 3112, § 2, 2-25-20)

The city 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 the hours or days are specified in this title; provided, further, that they shall not be in conflict with any policy which has been approved by the council.

(Prior code § 3420.47)

No person, unless authorized by the city traffic engineer, shall 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 resolution or ordinance of the city pertaining thereto and who has obtained permission from the city council.

(Prior code § 3420.48)