Chapter 10.12
TRAFFIC CODE – SIGNS AND SIGNALS
Sections:
10.12.010 Designation of signs.
10.12.020 Obedience to traffic signs.
10.12.030 Display of unauthorized signs prohibited.
10.12.010 Designation of signs.
The City Council shall by resolution determine and designate the character of all official warning and direction signs and signals. Subject to this selection, the Chief of Police is hereby authorized, and as to those signs required hereunder it shall be his duty, to place and maintain or cause to be placed and maintained all official warning and direction signs and signals. All signs authorized and required hereunder for a particular purpose shall be uniform.
No provision of this title for which signs are required shall be enforceable against the alleged violator if at the time and place of the alleged violation any sign herein required is not in proper position and sufficiently legible to be seen by an ordinary observant person. (Ord. 73 § 3, 1928)
10.12.020 Obedience to traffic signs.
It shall be unlawful for an operator or pedestrian to disobey the instructions of any mechanical or electrical traffic signal, traffic sign or marks upon the street placed in accordance with the provisions of this title.
No public utility or department in this City shall erect or place any barrier or sign unless of a type first approved by the City Council. It shall be unlawful for any operator or pedestrian to disobey the instructions of any barrier or sign approved, as above provided, erected or placed by a public utility or by any department of this City. (Ord. 73 § 4, 1928)
10.12.030 Display of unauthorized signs prohibited.
It shall be unlawful for any person to place or maintain or to display any device, other than an official warning or direction sign or signal erected under competent authority, upon or in view of a street, which purports to be, or is an imitation of, or resembles, an official warning or direction sign or signal, or which attempts to direct the movement of traffic or the actions of operators, and any such prohibited device shall be a public nuisance, and the City Council may remove it, or cause it to be removed, without notice.
It shall be unlawful for any person to willfully deface, injure, move or interfere with any official warning or direction sign or signal. (Ord. 73 § 6, 1928)