Chapter 16.36
SPECIAL STOPS
Sections:
16.36.010 Vehicle emerging from alley or driveway.
16.36.020 Arterial highways designated.
16.36.030 Authority to erect stop signs.
16.36.040 Intersections where stop or yield required.
16.36.050 Stop signs and yield signs.
16.36.060 Vehicle entering stop intersection.
16.36.070 Vehicle entering yield intersection.
16.36.080 Design of stop signs.
16.36.090 When traffic obstructed.
16.36.010 Vehicle emerging from alley or driveway.
It is unlawful for the driver of a vehicle to emerge from an alley, driveway, building exit, private way, or private property or from off the roadway of any public highway, onto the roadway of any public highway or across a sidewalk or into the sidewalk area extending across any such alley, driveway, building exit, private way or private property without bringing the vehicle to a full stop and yielding the right-of-way to all pedestrians upon the sidewalk and all vehicles upon the public highway.
No vehicle shall back into or out of an alley, except when the alley is obstructed.
No driver shall enter any street at any point other than a street intersection at a rate of speed exceeding five miles an hour, nor operate a vehicle in excess of 15 miles per hour in any alley. (Ord. 597 § 2, 1969; Ord. 505 § 33, 1964).
16.36.020 Arterial highways designated.
Those streets and parts of streets described in Schedule II attached hereto and made a part hereof are declared to be arterial highways for the purpose of this section.
SCHEDULE II
Regents, Columbia, Alameda, Electron Way, Orchard, Anderson, Pierce and Emerson.
(Ord. 505 § 34, 1964).
16.36.030 Authority to erect stop signs.
Except on such streets that form a part of the route of a primary or secondary state highway upon which state law requires the State Highway Commission to install, operate, maintain, and control traffic control devices, whenever any city ordinance designates and describes an arterial highway, it shall be the duty of the police chief to place and maintain a stop sign on each and every street intersecting such arterial highway or intersecting that portion thereof described and designated as such by any city ordinance. (Ord. 597 § 1, 1969; Ord. 505 § 35, 1964).
16.36.040 Intersections where stop or yield required.
The police chief is authorized to determine and designate intersections where particular hazard exists upon other than arterial streets and to determine whether:
(a) Vehicles shall stop at one or more entrances to any such intersection, in which event he shall cause to be erected a stop sign at every such place where a stop is required; or
(b) Vehicles shall yield the right-of-way to vehicles on a different street at such intersection as prescribed in FMC 16.36.070 in which event he shall cause to be erected a yield sign at every place where obedience thereto is required. (Ord. 597 § 1, 1969; Ord. 505 § 36, 1964).
16.36.050 Stop signs and yield signs.
(a) The driver of a vehicle approaching a yield sign if required for safety to stop shall stop before entering the crosswalk on the near side of the intersection or, in the event there is no crosswalk, at a clearly marked stop line, but if none, then at the point nearest the intersecting roadway where the driver has a view of approaching traffic on the intersecting roadway.
(b) Except when directed to proceed by a police officer or traffic control signal, every driver of a vehicle approaching a stop intersection indicated by a stop sign shall stop before entering the crosswalk on the near side of the intersection or, in the event there is no crosswalk, shall stop at a clearly marked stop line; but if none, then at the point nearest the intersecting roadway where the driver has a view of approaching traffic on the intersecting roadway before entering the intersection. (Ord. 505 § 36.1, 1964).
16.36.060 Vehicle entering stop intersection.
Except when directed to proceed by a police officer or traffic control signal, every driver of a vehicle approaching a stop intersection indicated by a stop sign shall stop as required by FMC 16.36.050(b) and after having stopped shall yield the right-of-way to any vehicle which has entered the intersection from another highway or which is approaching so closely on the highway as to constitute an immediate hazard during the time when such driver is moving across or within the intersection. (Ord. 505 § 36.2, 1964).
16.36.070 Vehicle entering yield intersection.
The driver of a vehicle approaching a yield sign shall in obedience to such sign slow down to a speed reasonable for the existing conditions and shall yield the right-of-way to any vehicle in the intersection or approaching on another highway so closely as to constitute an immediate hazard during the time such driver is moving across or within the intersection; provided, however, that if such a driver is involved in a collision with a vehicle in the intersection, after driving past a yield sign without stopping, such collision shall be deemed prima facie evidence of his failure to yield right-of-way. (Ord. 505 § 36.3, 1964).
16.36.080 Design of stop signs.
Every stop sign shall be of the standard design adopted by the State Highway Commission. (Ord. 505 § 37, 1964).
16.36.090 When traffic obstructed.
No driver shall enter an intersection or a marked crosswalk unless there is sufficient space on the other side of the intersection or crosswalk to accommodate the vehicle he is operating without obstructing the passage of other vehicles or pedestrians, notwithstanding any traffic control signal indication to proceed. (Ord. 597 § 2, 1969; Ord. 505 § 38, 1964).
16.36.100 Railroad crossing.
No person shall drive any vehicle through, around, or under any crossing gate or barrier at a railroad grade crossing while such gate or barrier is closed or is being opened or closed. (Ord. 505 § 39, 1964).