Chapter 10.05
UNIFORM TRAFFIC ORDINANCE
Sections:
10.05.030 Powers of the council.
10.05.040 Powers of the city manager.
10.05.070 Authority of police and fire officers.
10.05.010 Short title.
This title may be cited as the Coos Bay uniform traffic ordinance. [Ord. 114 § 1, 1987].
10.05.020 Definitions.
In addition to the definition contained in the Oregon Vehicle Code, the following mean:
“Bus or taxi stand” means a space on the edge of a roadway designated by sign or other marking for use by buses or taxis loading or unloading passengers.
“Downtown business district” means the area of the city zoned as central commercial (C-1) pursuant to the city’s land development ordinance.
“Holiday” means Sunday, New Year’s Day, Memorial Day, Independence Day, Labor Day, Veteran’s Day, Thanksgiving Day, Christmas Day, and any other day proclaimed by the council to be a holiday.
“Loading zone” means a space on the edge of a roadway designated by sign for the purpose of loading or unloading passengers or materials during specified hours of specified days.
“Person” means a natural person, firm, partnership, association, or corporation.
“Play street” means that portion of a street designated and posted to restrict traffic and permit recreational use.
“Recreational vehicle” means an oversize vehicle, used primarily for recreational purposes, which cannot be parked in standard parking spaces.
Street. The terms “highway,” “road,” and “street” shall be considered synonymous, unless the context precludes such construction. “Street” includes alleys.
“Traffic lane” means that area of the roadway used for the movement of a single line of traffic. [Ord. 489 § 1, 2017; Ord. 174 § 1, 1991; Ord. 114 § 2, 1987].
10.05.030 Powers of the council.
(1) Subject to state laws, the city council shall exercise all municipal traffic authority for the city except those powers specifically and expressly delegated by this title or another ordinance. The powers of the council include, but are not limited to, those listed in this section.
(2) The council, by resolution, may establish or alter traffic controls which shall become effective upon the installation of appropriate signs, signals or other markings. These traffic controls may designate and regulate:
(a) The parking and standing of vehicles by:
(i) Designating the angle of parking if other than parallel to the curb.
(ii) Designating city-owned or leased lots or property upon which public parking will be permitted.
(b) Through streets and one-way streets.
(c) Truck routes.
(d) Special speed regulations for city parks and municipal parking lots.
(e) Repealed by Ord. 504.
(3) The council, by resolution, may establish a schedule of fines for improper parking.
(4) The council, by resolution, may establish a schedule of fees for permit parking and for delivery or service permit cards. [Ord. 565 § 1, 2023; Ord. 504 § 1, 2018; Ord. 114 § 3, 1987].
10.05.040 Powers of the city manager.
The city manager or designee shall exercise the following powers and duties:
(1) Implement the ordinances, resolutions and motions of the council and his or her own orders by installing, maintaining, removing, and altering parking and traffic control devices. The installation shall be based on the standards contained in the “Oregon Manual on Uniform Traffic Control Devices for Streets and Highways.”
(2) After adequate signs, signals, or other markings are erected indicating such regulation, the manager may:
(a) Establish the time limit for legal parking in limited parking areas.
(b) Establish bus stops, bus stands, taxicab stands and stands for other passenger common-carrier vehicles.
(c) Designate the location of passenger loading zones for use in front of the entrance to any hotel auditorium, theater, church, school or other public building.
(d) Designate loading zones, not to exceed two on any one side of a block.
(e) Designate intersections where drivers of vehicles shall not make right, left, or U-turns, and the times when the prohibitions shall apply.
(f) Designate crosswalks.
(g) Designate safety zones of a kind and character and at such places as deemed necessary for pedestrian safety.
(h) Designate play streets, or such hours when certain streets may be used as such, on which no person shall drive a vehicle except when the driver of the vehicle has business or resides within the closed area.
(i) Designate permit parking areas.
(j) Direct the removal or reduction in height of any hedge, shrubbery, tree, or other visual obstruction to traffic safety.
(k) Make and enforce for up to 90 days temporary, experimental or emergency regulations consistent with this title after adequate signs, signals or other notices are erected clearly indicating such regulations.
(l) The temporary closing of certain streets, or portions thereof.
(m) Establish zones where no parking and standing of vehicles is permitted by classifying portions of streets or parking lots upon which parking or standing or both is prohibited totally, or during certain hours.
(3) Decisions of the city manager pertaining to this section may be appealed to the city council. Appeals must be made within 30 days of the city manager’s decision. [Ord. 565 §§ 2, 3, 2023; Ord. 504 § 2, 2018; Ord. 114 § 4, 1987].
10.05.050 Public danger.
Under conditions constituting a danger to the public, the manager or his or her designee may install temporary traffic control devices. [Ord. 114 § 5, 1987].
10.05.060 Standards.
The traffic designs and control device regulations of the manager or his or her designee shall be based on:
(1) Traffic engineering principles and traffic investigations.
(2) Standards, limitations, and rules promulgated by the Oregon Transportation Commission.
(3) Other recognized traffic control standards. [Ord. 114 § 6, 1987].
10.05.070 Authority of police and fire officers.
(1) It is the duty of police officers and others designated by the manager to enforce the provisions of this title.
(2) In the event of a fire or other public emergency, officers of the public safety department may direct traffic as conditions require, notwithstanding the provisions of this title. [Ord. 114 § 7, 1987].