Whenever any ordinance of the City designates any one-way street
or alley, the City Traffic Engineer shall place and maintain signs
giving notice thereof, and no such regulation shall be effective unless
such signs are in place. Signs indicating the direction of lawful
traffic movement shall be placed at every intersection where movement
of traffic in the opposite direction is prohibited.
Upon those streets and parts of streets and in those alleys
described and designated by ordinance, vehicular traffic shall move
only in the indicated direction when signs indicating the direction
of traffic are erected and maintained at every intersection where
movement in the opposite direction is prohibited.
A.Â
The City
Traffic Engineer is hereby authorized to determine and designate streets,
parts of streets or specific lanes thereon upon which vehicular traffic
shall proceed in one (1) direction during one (1) period and the opposite
direction during another period of the day and shall place and maintain
appropriate markings, signs, barriers or other devices to give notice
thereof. The City Traffic Engineer may erect signs temporarily designating
lanes to be used by traffic moving in a particular direction, regardless
of the centerline of the roadway.
B.Â
It shall
be unlawful for any person to operate any vehicle in violation of
such markings, signs, barriers or other devices so placed in accordance
with this Section.
[Bill No. 2002-39(340.371), 11-18-02]
A.Â
The following
described portions of the alley located between the 300 block of Elliott
Avenue and the 300 block of Grey Street in the City of Chaffee, Missouri,
shall be closed to pedestrian and vehicular traffic and use (except
as to all utility easement access above, along and below the surface
of the alley) subject to the following limitations, requirements,
restrictions and obligations:
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Portion of alley subject to this Section being described as
follows:
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Beginning at the northeast corner of Lot Six (6) of Block Thirty
(30) of the original town now the City of Chaffee, Missouri; thence
westwardly along the north property line of said Lot Six (6) a distance
of 40 feet to the northwest corner of the said Lot Six (6); thence
northwardly a distance of 16 feet to the southwest corner of Lot Twenty-seven
(27) of Block Thirty (30) of the original town of the City of Chaffee;
thence eastwardly along the south line of said Lot Twenty-seven (27)
a distance of 40 feet to the southeast corner of said Lot Twenty-seven
(27); thence northwardly along the east property line of said Lot
Twenty-seven (27) a distance of 140 feet to the northeast corner of
said Lot Twenty-seven (27); thence eastwardly a distance of 16 feet
to the northwest corner of Lot Five (5) of Block Thirty (30) of the
original town of the City of Chaffee; thence southwardly along the
west property line of Lots Five (5), Four (4) and Three (3) of Block
Thirty (30) a distance of 156 feet; thence westwardly a distance of
16 feet to the point of beginning.
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B.Â
The alleyway
as described in the preceding Subsection shall be closed provided
the following limitations, requirements, restrictions and obligations
are fully and completely fulfilled as follows:
1.Â
The
alleyway will be closed from 7:30 A.M. continuously until 3:30 P.M.
on each day of each week, Monday through Friday during the periods
between August first (1st) of each year and May thirty-first (31st)
of the following year and only during times that the St. Ambrose Catholic
School is in session.
2.Â
The
St. Ambrose Catholic School Board, or its designee, shall be solely
responsible for the following conditions and requirements in connection
with the closed alley:
a.Â
Posting
such notices and marking such areas so that pedestrians and persons
operating motor vehicles intending to travel the closed alleyway will
be made aware that such travel is unauthorized.
b.Â
If
gates or other devices are utilized for the purpose of posting and
marking the closed alleyway, such gates or devices shall be clearly
marked and clearly visible during all types of weather conditions
and at all such times that the alleyway is closed to vehicular and
pedestrian traffic. Such gates or other devices giving notice to pedestrian
and operators of vehicles shall be acceptable to the Chief of Police
of the City of Chaffee to ensure that pedestrians and persons operating
motor vehicles intending to travel across the closed portions of the
alleyway may readily recognize that the alley is closed.
c.Â
Any
gate, obstructions or devices utilized to notify the public as to
the limited use of the alleyway must be timely and promptly opened
and closed at the times prescribed herein.
d.Â
Any
gate, obstruction or device when not being utilized for notifying
pedestrians and persons operating vehicles of the closed nature of
the alley shall be so situated and secured so that all parts of any
gate, obstruction or device or other apparatus or posts to which the
gate, obstruction or device or other apparatus is attached must be
at least five (5) feet in distance from the nearest alley line.
e.Â
Any
gate, obstruction or device established or utilized for notifying
pedestrians and operators of motor vehicles of the closed nature of
the alleyway shall be secured so that when not in use, it cannot be
closed or partially closed by wind or other elements, vandalism or
pranksters.
C.Â
This
Section shall not be effect or in any way limit or diminish any easements
running along, below or above the alley to be closed and shall not
prohibit anyone who has authority under any such easement from entering
into or upon the closed alleyway at any time as long as the same is
in accordance with the easement established for said person.
