[R.O. 2009 § 315.010]
The City Traffic Engineer shall place
and maintain traffic control signs, signals, and devices when and
as required under the traffic ordinances of the City to make effective
the provisions of said ordinances and may place and maintain such
additional traffic control devices as he/she may deem necessary to
regulate traffic under the traffic ordinances of the City or under
State law or to guide or warn traffic.
[R.O. 2009 § 315.020]
All traffic control signs, signals,
and devices shall conform to the manual and specifications approved
by the State Highways and Transportation Commission or those adopted
by the Board of Aldermen of the City. All signs or signals required
hereunder for a particular purpose shall so far as practicable be
uniform as to type and location throughout the City. All traffic control
devices so erected and not inconsistent with the provisions of this
Title shall be official traffic control devices.
[R.O. 2009 § 315.040]
No provision of this Title for which
official traffic control devices are required shall be enforced against
an alleged violator if at the time and place of the alleged violation
an official device is not in proper position and sufficiently legible
to be seen by an ordinarily observant person. Whenever a particular
Section does not state that official traffic control devices are required,
such Section shall be effective even though no devices are erected
or in place.
[R.O. 2009 § 315.090]
When lane direction control signals
are placed over the individual lanes of a street or highway, vehicular
traffic may travel in any lane over which a green signal is shown
but shall not enter or travel in any lane over which a red signal
is shown.
[R.O. 2009 § 315.100]
No person shall place, maintain or
display upon or in view of any highway an unauthorized sign, signal,
marking or device which purports to be or is an imitation of or resembles
an official traffic control device or railroad sign or signal, or
which attempts to direct the movement of traffic, or which hides from
view or interferes with the effectiveness of any official traffic
control device or any railroad sign or signal.
[R.O. 2009 § 315.110]
No person shall without lawful authority
attempt to or in fact alter, deface, injure, knock down or remove
any official traffic control device or any railroad sign or signal
or any inscription, shield or insignia thereon or any other part thereof.
[R.O. 2009 § 315.120; R.O. 2006
§ 315.130; Ord. No. 497 § 26, 6-26-1979]
A. The City Traffic Engineer shall have authority
to declare any street or part thereof a play street and to place appropriate
signs or devices in the roadway indicating and helping to protect
the same.
B. Whenever authorized signs are erected indicating
any street or part thereof as a play street, no person shall drive
a vehicle upon any such street or portion thereof except drivers of
vehicles having business or whose residences are within such closed
area, and then any said driver shall exercise the greatest care in
driving upon any such street or portion thereof.
[R.O. 2009 § 315.140; Ord. No. 3822, 6-28-2018]
When an event is held at a school
that is expected to attract a significant influx of motor vehicles,
the City Administrator and/or the Board of Aldermen may, for the safety
and convenience of Fenton residents, designate "Temporary No Parking
Zones" within five hundred (500) feet of a school for the time period
surrounding the event. Upon such designation, the Traffic Engineer,
the City Administrator, or their designee shall cause signs or other
devices to be erected prior to the event to notify persons of such
Temporary No Parking Zone designation and cause such signs or devices
to be subsequently removed thereafter. Whenever authorized signs are
erected indicating a Temporary No Parking Zone, no person shall park
a vehicle in such designated zone.