Chapter 10.12
TRAFFIC CONTROL DEVICES1
Sections:
10.12.010 Installation authority.
10.12.020 Required for enforcement.
10.12.040 Traffic signal installation.
10.12.060 Distinctive roadway markings.
10.12.070 Removal, relocation or discontinuance.
10.12.090 Unauthorized painting of curbs.
10.12.100 Turning marker placement.
10.12.110 Restricted turn signs.
10.12.130 Right turn against red signal prohibition.
10.12.140 Left turns between intersections.
10.12.150 One-way streets and alleys signing.
10.12.170 Repealed.
10.12.180 Emerging from alley, driveway or building.
10.12.190 Yield right-of-way signs.
10.12.010 Installation authority.
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 under the traffic ordinances of this city to make effective the provisions of said ordinances.
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 may deem necessary to regulate traffic or to guide or warn traffic, but he 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 the traffic ordinances of this city or as may be determined by ordinance or resolution of the legislative body of this city. [1937 Code § 513.]
10.12.020 Required for enforcement.
No provision of the Vehicle Code or of this title for which signs are required shall be enforced against an alleged violator unless appropriate signs are in place and sufficiently legible to be seen by an ordinarily observant person, giving notice of such provisions of the traffic laws. [1937 Code § 513.1.]
10.12.030 Obedience required.
The driver of any vehicle shall obey the instructions of any official traffic control device applicable thereto placed in accordance with the traffic ordinances of this city unless otherwise directed by a police officer subject to the exceptions granted the driver of an authorized emergency vehicle when responding to emergency calls. [1937 Code § 513.2.]
10.12.040 Traffic signal installation.
A. The city traffic engineer is directed to 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 city traffic engineer shall ascertain and determine the locations where such signals are required by resort 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 California Maintenance Manual issued by the Division of Highways of the State Department of Public Works. [1937 Code § 513.3.]
10.12.050 Lane markings.
The city traffic engineer is authorized to mark centerlines and lane lines upon the surface of the roadway to indicate the course to be traveled 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. [1937 Code § 513.4.]
10.12.060 Distinctive roadway markings.
The city traffic engineer is authorized to place and maintain distinctive roadway markings as described in the 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 such marking or signs and markings. Such marking or signs and marking shall have the same effect as similar markings placed by the State Department of Public Works pursuant to provisions of the Vehicle Code. [1937 Code § 513.5.]
10.12.070 Removal, relocation or discontinuance.
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 determines in any particular case that the conditions which warranted or required the installation no longer exist or remain. [1937 Code § 513.6.]
10.12.080 Operation hours.
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 such hours or days are specified in this title. [1937 Code § 513.7.]
10.12.090 Unauthorized painting of curbs.
No person, unless authorized by this city, 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 this city pertaining thereto. [1937 Code § 513.8.]
10.12.100 Turning marker placement.
A. The city traffic engineer is authorized to place markers, buttons or signs within or adjacent to intersections indicating the course to be traveled by vehicles turning at such intersections, and the city traffic engineer is authorized to allocate and indicate more than one lane of traffic from which drivers of vehicles may make right- or left-hand turns, and the course to be traveled as so indicated may conform to or be other than as prescribed by law or ordinance.
B. When authorized markers, buttons or other indications are placed within an intersection indicating the course to be traveled by vehicles turning thereat, no driver of a vehicle shall disobey the directions of such indications. [1937 Code § 514.]
10.12.110 Restricted turn signs.
The city traffic engineer is authorized to determine those intersections at which drivers of vehicles shall not make a right, left or U-turn, and shall place proper signs at such intersections. The making of such turns may be prohibited between certain hours of any day and permitted at other hours, in which event the same shall be plainly indicated on the signs or they may be removed when such turns are permitted. [1937 Code § 514.1.]
10.12.120 No-turn signs.
Whenever authorized signs are erected indicating that no right or left or U-turn is permitted, no driver of a vehicle shall disobey the directions of any such sign. [1937 Code § 514.2.]
10.12.130 Right turn against red signal prohibition.
The city, traffic engineer is authorized to determine those intersections within any business or residence district at which drivers of vehicles shall not make a right turn against a red or stop signal and shall erect proper signs giving notice of such prohibition. No driver of a vehicle shall disobey the directions of any such sign. [1937 Code § 514.3.]
10.12.140 Left turns between intersections.
It is unlawful for the operator of any vehicle to turn such vehicle to the left, whether for the purpose of entering or leaving a driveway or otherwise, at any place between the intersections and during the times so designated by the city traffic engineer when such places are appropriately signed or marked. [1937 Code § 514.4.]
10.12.150 One-way streets and alleys signing.
Whenever any ordinance or resolution of this city designates any one-way street or alley, the city traffic engineer shall place and maintain signs giving notice thereof, and no such regulations shall be effective unless such signs are in place. Signs indicating the direction of lawful traffic movement shall be placed at every intersection where movement of traffic in the opposite direction is prohibited. [1937 Code § 515.]
10.12.160 Stop sign erection.
Whenever any ordinance or resolution of this 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 traffic 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 shall be placed as provided in the Vehicle Code. [1937 Code § 516.]
10.12.170 Stop at through street or stop sign.
Repealed by Ord. 08-1300. [1937 Code § 516.1.]
10.12.180 Emerging from alley, driveway or building.
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 alleyway. [1937 Code § 516.2.]
10.12.190 Yield right-of-way signs.
Pursuant to the authority contained in Section 21356 of the Vehicle Code of the state, the city traffic engineer is authorized to erect, place, maintain, remove, or cause to be erected, placed, maintained or removed, yield right-of-way signs at one or more approaches to an intersection of streets and highways in the city which are not through streets, but such yield right-of-way signs shall not be erected upon the approaches to more than one of the intersecting streets. [1937 Code § 516.3.]
For statutory provisions authorizing local officials to place and maintain traffic control devices as necessary to implement statutes or local ordinances, see Vehicle Code § 21351.