Chapter 10.24
TURNING MOVEMENTS

Sections:

10.24.010    Markers and signs—Placement authority.

10.24.020    Right, left and U turns.

10.24.030    Right turns on red signal prohibited when.

10.24.040    U turns to enter parking spaces.

10.24.010 Markers and signs—Placement authority.

The City Engineer/Director of Public Works 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 Engineer/Director of Public Works is authorized to allocate and indicate more than one lane of traffic from which drivers of vehicles may make righthand or lefthand turns, and the course to be traveled as so indicated may conform to or be other than as prescribed by law or ordinance. (Ord. 1053 § 6(3) (part), 1990; Ord. 334 Art. V § 50, 1953)

10.24.020 Right, left and U turns.

The City Engineer/Director of Public Works is authorized to determine those intersections or such other places at which drivers of vehicles shall not make a right, left, or U turn, and shall place proper signs at such intersections, or such other places. 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. (Ord. 1053 § 6(3) (part), 1990; Ord. 334 Art. V § 51, 1953)

10.24.030 Right turns on red signal prohibited when.

The City Engineer/Director of Public Works 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. (Ord. 1053 § 6(3) (part), 1990; Ord. 334 Art. V § 53, 1953)

10.24.040 U turns to enter parking spaces.

No vehicle traveling on a two-way street in the commercial district of San Carlos shall be turned or operated so as to enter a parking space upon the side of the street opposite from the vehicle’s original direction of travel. (Ord. 982 § 1, 1987)