Chapter 11.10
TRAFFIC ADMINISTRATION
Sections:
11.10.010 Duty of Police Department.
11.10.020 Forms and records of traffic citations and arrests.
11.10.030 Records of traffic violations.
11.10.040 Investigation of accidents.
11.10.050 Traffic accident reports.
11.10.070 City Traffic Engineer.
11.10.080 Regulatory, warning and guide signs.
11.10.090 Authority to install traffic control devices.
11.10.100 Authority to designate crosswalks and traffic lanes.
11.10.105 Review of traffic control device placement.
11.10.110 Authority to designate hazardous or congested places.
11.10.120 Authority to enforce temporary regulations.
11.10.130 Authority to establish turning markings.
11.10.140 Authority to limit parking time.
11.10.150 Authority to permit angle parking.
11.10.160 Permits for loading or unloading at an angle to the curb.
11.10.170 Removal of obstructions impairing view.
11.10.180 Duty of owner to remove obstructions impairing view – Penalty.
11.10.010 Duty of Police Department.
It shall be the duty of the Police Department to enforce the street traffic regulations of the City and all of the state vehicle laws applicable to street traffic in the City, to make arrests for traffic violations, to investigate accidents, and to cooperate with the officials of the City in the administration of the traffic laws and in developing ways and means to improve traffic conditions, and to carry out those duties specifically imposed upon the Police Department by the ordinances of the City. [Ord. 06-08 § 1; Code 1971 § 11-2-1.]
11.10.020 Forms and records of traffic citations and arrests.
Traffic citations for notifying alleged violators to appear in the Justice Court and answer to charges of violating traffic laws and ordinances of this City shall be provided in the form prescribed and approved jointly by the Justice Court Judge and Chief of Police. Such forms may be paper or electronic, but shall be serially numbered. The Chief of Police shall maintain a record of every numbered citation form. [Ord. 06-08 § 1; Code 1971 § 11-2-2.]
11.10.030 Records of traffic violations.
The Police Department may keep such records of local violations of the traffic ordinances of this City or of the state vehicle laws of which any person has been charged as the Chief of Police shall determine necessary and advisable as an aid to traffic regulation or enforcement. [Ord. 06-08 § 1; Code 1971 § 11-2-3.]
11.10.040 Investigation of accidents.
The members of the Police Department shall investigate traffic accidents, arrest those persons charged with the violation of law causing or contributing to accidents, and assist in the prosecution of such persons. [Ord. 06-08 § 1; Code 1971 § 11-2-4.]
11.10.050 Traffic accident reports.
The Police Department shall receive and properly file all accident reports made to it under state law or under the ordinances of the City, but all such accident reports made by drivers shall be for the confidential use of the Police Department or City Traffic Engineer, and no such reports shall be admissible in any civil or criminal proceedings, other than upon the request of the court having jurisdiction to prove compliance with the laws requiring the making of any such report. [Ord. 06-08 § 1; Code 1971 § 11-2-5.]
11.10.060 Drivers’ files.
The Police Department may maintain such records of local traffic accidents, warnings, arrests, convictions, or complaints reported as the Chief of Police shall determine reasonable and necessary to assist in the enforcement of the traffic laws of the City.
The Police Department may also, as the Chief of Police may determine necessary, study the cases of drivers charged with frequent or serious violations of the traffic laws or involved in frequent traffic accidents or any serious accident, and attempt to discover the reason for all such accidents. If reasonable, the Police Department shall take whatever steps are lawful to have suspended or revoked the licenses of such drivers. [Ord. 06-08 § 1; Code 1971 § 11-2-6.]
11.10.070 City Traffic Engineer.
The “City Traffic Engineer” shall mean the City Engineer or such other person as shall be designated by the City Council. The City Council shall provide the City Traffic Engineer with such assistance as may be necessary for the proper performance of the functions of this office. [Ord. 17-17 (Exh. A); Ord. 06-08 § 1; Code 1971 § 11-2-7.]
11.10.080 Regulatory, warning and guide signs.
The placement of all regulatory, warning, and guide signs along roadways and intersections under the City’s jurisdiction shall be determined by the City Traffic Engineer, in consultation with the most recent edition of the Manual for Uniform Traffic Control Devices, and taking into consideration the specific circumstances present at the sign’s proposed location. The City Traffic Engineer or a designee shall place and maintain signs in accordance with applicable traffic engineering standards and engineering judgment. [Ord. 17-17 (Exh. A); Ord. 06-08 § 1; Code 1971 § 11-2-8.]
11.10.090 Authority to install traffic control devices.
The City Traffic Engineer or a designee shall place and maintain such traffic control devices as may be required by the ordinances of this City or, subject to the approval of the City Council, that are necessary to regulate, guide or warn traffic under the traffic ordinances of this City.
The City Traffic Engineer or a designee shall place and maintain traffic control signs, signals, and other traffic calming devices in accordance with traffic ordinances of this City, and may place and maintain such additional traffic control devices that are necessary to regulate, control or warn traffic.
All traffic control signs, signals and devices shall conform to the manual and specifications approved by the state of Utah. All signs and signals required hereunder shall, so far as practicable, be uniform as to type and location throughout the City. All traffic control devices so erected and consistent with the provisions of state law or City ordinances shall be official traffic control devices. [Ord. 17-17 (Exh. A); Ord. 06-08 § 1; Code 1971 § 11-2-9.]
11.10.100 Authority to designate crosswalks and traffic lanes.
The Traffic Engineer is hereby authorized:
(A) To designate and maintain, by appropriate devices, marks, or lines upon the surface of the roadway, crosswalks at intersections where, in his opinion, there is particular danger to pedestrians crossing the roadway, and at such other places as he may deem necessary.
(B) To mark lanes for traffic on street pavements at such places as he may deem advisable, consistent with the traffic ordinances of the City.
(C) To establish safety zones of such kind and character and at such places as he may deem necessary for the protection of pedestrians. [Ord. 06-08 § 1; Code 1971 § 11-2-10.]
11.10.105 Review of traffic control device placement.
(A) The Traffic Engineer shall generally review traffic control device placement under the following circumstances:
(1) Upon completion of capital projects;
(2) Development activity that may alter traffic patterns; or
(3) Upon public request, after receipt of payment of a fee established in the consolidated fee schedule.
(B) The Traffic Engineer, after completing a review, may make any changes deemed necessary in the Engineer’s judgment, in accordance with this chapter and the Manual of Uniform Traffic Control Devices, as adopted by the state of Utah. [Ord. 18-27 § 1 (Exh. A).]
11.10.110 Authority to designate hazardous or congested places.
The Traffic Engineer is hereby authorized to determine and designate by proper signs areas, not exceeding 100 feet in length, in which the stopping, standing or parking of vehicles would create an especially hazardous condition or would cause unusual delay to traffic. [Ord. 06-08 § 1; Code 1971 § 11-2-11.]
11.10.120 Authority to enforce temporary regulations.
(A) The Chief of Police is hereby empowered to make regulations necessary to make effective the provisions of the traffic ordinances of the City and to make and enforce temporary or experimental regulations to cover the emergency or special conditions. No such temporary or experimental regulations shall remain in effect for more than 90 days.
(B) The Chief of Police may test traffic control devices under actual conditions of traffic. [Ord. 06-08 § 1; Code 1971 § 11-2-12.]
11.10.130 Authority to establish turning markings.
The Traffic Engineer is authorized to place islands, markers, or signs within or adjacent to intersections indicating the course to be traveled by vehicles turning at such intersections, and such course shall be traveled irrespective of any other provisions of this title.
The Traffic Engineer is hereby 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. [Ord. 06-08 § 1; Code 1971 § 11-2-13.]
11.10.140 Authority to limit parking time.
The City Council may cause proper signs or traffic markings to be erected or placed upon any street in this City limiting the time a vehicle may remain parked on such street. [Ord. 06-08 § 1; Code 1971 § 11-2-14.]
11.10.150 Authority to permit angle parking.
The Traffic Engineer shall determine upon what streets angle parking shall be permitted and shall mark or sign such streets, but such angle parking shall not be indicated upon any federal-aid or state highway within this City unless the State Road Commission has determined by resolution or order entered in its minutes that the roadway is of sufficient width to permit angle parking without interfering with the free movement of traffic.
Angle parking shall not be indicated or permitted at any place where passing traffic would thereby be caused or required to drive upon the left side of the street or upon any tracks. [Ord. 06-08 § 1; Code 1971 § 11-2-15.]
11.10.160 Permits for loading or unloading at an angle to the curb.
The Chief of Police is authorized to issue special permits to permit the backing of a vehicle to the curb for the purpose of loading or unloading merchandise or materials, subject to the terms and conditions of such permit. Such permits may be issued either to the owner or lessee of real property or to the owner of the vehicle and shall grant to such person the privilege as therein stated and authorized herein. It shall be a Class C misdemeanor for any permittee or other person to violate any of the special terms or conditions of any such permit. [Ord. 06-08 § 1; Code 1971 § 11-2-16.]
11.10.170 Removal of obstructions impairing view.
The Police Department may remove from any street, gutter, sidewalk, or any other City-owned or City-controlled property all brush, foliage and other obstructions which interfere with or impair the view of an intersection or a railroad grade crossing or which create a traffic hazard. [Ord. 06-08 § 1; Code 1971 § 11-2-17.]
11.10.180 Duty of owner to remove obstructions impairing view – Penalty.
(A) It shall be the duty of the owner of real property to remove from such property any tree, plant, shrub or other obstruction, or part thereof, which, by obstructing the view of any driver, constitutes a traffic hazard.
(B) When the City Council determines, upon the basis of an engineering and traffic investigation, that such a traffic hazard exists, it shall notify the owner and order that the hazard be removed within 10 days.
(C) The failure of the owner to remove such traffic hazard within 10 days shall constitute an infraction, and every day said owner shall fail to remove it shall be a separate and distinct offense. [Ord. 06-08 § 18.]