Chapter 10.20
TRAFFIC-CONTROL DEVICES
Sections:
10.20.010 Installation—Authorized when.
10.20.020 Signs required for enforcement.
10.20.030 Traffic-control devices—Hours of operation.
10.20.040 Driver obedience required.
10.20.050 Stops—Required where.
10.20.060 Installation—Traffic signals and street name signs.
10.20.070 Centerline and lane markings.
10.20.080 Roadway markings indicating no driving.
10.20.090 Removal, relocation or discontinuance.
10.20.010 Installation—Authorized when.
A. The City Engineer/Director of Public Works shall have the exclusive 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 the City, to make effective the provisions of such ordinances.
B. Whenever the State Vehicle Code requires for the effectiveness of any provisions thereof that traffic-control devices be installed to give notice to the public of the application of such law, the City Engineer/Director of Public Works is authorized to install the necessary devices, subject to any limitations or restrictions set forth in the law applicable thereto.
C. The City Engineer/Director of Public Works may also place and maintain 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 the City, or as may be determined by ordinance or resolution of the legislative body of the City. (Ord. 1053 § 6(2) (part), 1990; Ord. 334 Art. IV § 40, 1953)
10.20.020 Signs 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. (Ord. 334 Art. IV § 41, 1953)
10.20.030 Traffic-control devices—Hours of operation.
The City Engineer/Director of Public Works 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. (Ord. 1053 § 6(2) (part), 1990; Ord. 334 Art. IV § 47, 1953)
10.20.040 Driver 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 the 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. (Ord. 334 Art. IV § 42, 1953)
10.20.050 Stops—Required where.
A. Through Streets.
1. 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, the Director of Public Works 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 or other intersections where a stop is required. Every such sign shall conform with and shall be placed as provided in Section 21355 of the Vehicle Code.
2. Those streets and parts of streets described in Section 4411, and stop intersections at such streets, set out in Section 4412, as set out in Section 2 of Ordinance 793, as amended, are declared to be through streets for the purposes of this section.
B. Emerging from Alley or Driveway. 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. (Ord. 793 § 2, 1976)
10.20.060 Installation—Traffic signals and street name signs.
A. The City Engineer/Director of Public Works 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 Engineer/Director of Public Works 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.
C. Whenever the City Engineer/Director of Public Works installs and maintains an official traffic signal at any intersection, he shall likewise erect and maintain at such intersection street name signs visible to the principal flow of traffic, unless such street name signs have previously been placed and are maintained at any such intersection. (Ord. 1053 § 6(2) (part), 1990; Ord. 334 Art. IV § 43, 1953)
10.20.070 Centerline and lane markings.
The City Engineer/Director of Public Works 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. (Ord. 1053 § 6(2) (part), 1990; Ord. 334 Art. IV § 44, 1953)
10.20.080 Roadway markings indicating no driving.
Whenever the State Department of Public Works determines by resolution and designates a distinctive roadway marking which shall indicate no driving over such marking, the City Engineer/Director of Public Works is authorized to designate by such marking 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 markings shall have the same effect as similar markings placed by the State Department of Public Works pursuant to provisions of the Vehicle Code. (Ord. 1053 § 6(2) (part), 1990; Ord. 334 Art. IV § 45, 1953)
10.20.090 Removal, relocation or discontinuance.
The City Engineer/Director of Public Works is authorized to remove, relocate or discontinue the operation of any traffic-control device not specifically required by State Law or Title 10 of this Code whenever he shall determine in any particular case that the conditions which warranted or required the installation no longer exist or obtain. (Ord. 1053 § 6(2) (part), 1990; Ord. 334 Art. IV § 46, 1953)