Chapter 10.10
TRAFFIC CONTROL DEVICES AND SIGNALS1
Sections:
10.10.010 Duties of director of public works.
10.10.020 Authority to install traffic control devices.
10.10.030 Crosswalks – School speed zones.
10.10.040 Interference with traffic control devices prohibited.
10.10.010 Duties of director of public works.
This chapter shall be administered by the director of public works, in consultation with the director of public safety. It shall be the duty of the public works director to conduct engineering investigation of traffic conditions, to plan the operation of traffic on the streets and highways of the city, and to plan the development of ways and means to improve traffic conditions within the city. (Ord. 841 § 1, 1999).
10.10.020 Authority to install traffic control devices.
The director of public works is hereby authorized to place and maintain traffic control signs, signals and devices, including striping, lane marking and channelization signs or other devices indicating required or prohibited turning movements, and caution and warning signs, all as required by state law and good engineering practice. So far as practical, all traffic control signs shall be uniform as to type and location throughout the city, and shall conform to the uniform state standards for traffic control devices. No traffic control signal or device shall be erected or maintained upon any city street designated as forming a part of the route of a primary state highway or secondary state highway unless first approved by the state department of transportation. All traffic control devices so erected and not inconsistent with the provisions of state law or this chapter shall be official traffic control devices. (Ord. 841 § 1, 1999).
10.10.030 Crosswalks – School speed zones.
A. The director of public works is hereby authorized to designate and maintain crosswalks by appropriate devices marks or lines upon the surface of the roadway at intersections where he may deem necessary, and to establish safety zones of such kind and character at such places as may be deemed necessary, to protect the safety of pedestrians.
B. School or playground crosswalks shall be marked with standard school or playground crossing speed limit signs establishing the school or playground crossing speed zone three hundred feet in either direction from such crosswalk. (Ord. 841 § 1, 1999).
10.10.040 Interference with traffic control devices prohibited.
It shall be unlawful for any person without lawful authority to attempt to or in fact alter, deface, injure, knock down or remove any official traffic control device, or any part thereof. (Ord. 841 § 1, 1999).
Code reviser’s note: Ord. 841 added this chapter as 10.08. It has been editorially renumbered to avoid duplication.