[Ord. No. 324, § 1, 7-31-1956; Code 1965, § 52.12]
(a)
It shall be the duty of the Director of Public Works to cause traffic
signs to be erected in appropriate places, clearly visible to persons
walking, riding or operating motor vehicles in the direction intended
and required bylaw to be controlled, as follows:
(1)
At all entrances to the City and at all other appropriate places
throughout the City, speed signs indicating the lawful speed limit
on the streets where the signs are erected;
(2)
No parking signs;
(3)
Fire lane signs along streets or other ways designated as such;
(4)
At all lawfully established school stops and crosswalks;
(5)
At all lawfully designated safety zones;
(6)
At all loading and unloading zones;
(7)
At all service car stops, bus stops or taxicab stops;
(8)
At all reasonable intervals along a street or portion thereof
on which parking is prohibited;
(9)
At every major street intersection and at stop and yield intersections;
(10)
At appropriate places along one-way streets;
(11)
At all legally established quiet or emergency zones;
(12)
At all places where designated as caution or danger zones;
(13)
At all intersections where left-hand turns are prohibited or
other limited or special access to the intersection is provided;
(14)
At all other places which may be provided for by lawful order
or ordinance; and
(15)
At all places where in the judgment of the Director of Public
Works it is necessary to warn, notify or caution pedestrians or drivers
of vehicles of any kind or description of special conditions or traffic
regulations.
(b)
The signs erected pursuant to this section shall bear such legend
as is necessary to properly warn, caution or notify drivers of vehicles
of the applicable traffic regulations provided by law.
[Ord. No. 638, 1-10-1961; Code 1965, § 52.11]
Upon the recommendation of the Chief of Police, the Director
of Public Works may, if it is necessary in his judgment for the protection
of lives and property, authorize the police to put stop signs and
other traffic signals regulating turns out of commission temporarily.
Such signs shall be placed back in commission promptly upon written
order from the Director of Public Works to the Chief of Police when
the emergency conditions no longer exist in the judgment of the Director.
During the period that such signs are out of commission they may be
dismantled or turned away from the view of drivers of motor vehicles
when capable of being so turned, or they may be shielded or masked.
[Code 1965, § 52.13; Ord. No. 1383, § 1, 9-12-1972]
(a)
Intersections designated. Intersections described in Schedule A1
are designated traffic-control intersections. The intersections described
in Schedule A2 are designated cautious right turn on red light.
(b)
Fire station stop signal. A traffic signal is hereby authorized to
be erected over Sappington Road in front of the fire station at 1495
South Sappington Road, which shall be activated by electric control
to show a red stop sign only when fire vehicles are leaving or entering
the fire station. At other times the signal may be off or may be equipped
to show an amber flashing signal to caution the drivers of the proximity
of the fire station. It shall be the duty of the Director of Public
Works to paint white lines across which the fire station is located,
to designate the lines at which vehicles shall stop in obedience to
the red light. It shall be the duty of all drivers of motor vehicles
to stop their vehicles before reaching said white lines when the signal
shows a red light as vehicles approach from either direction. It shall
also be the duty of the Director of Public Works to erect appropriate
warning signs on Sappington Road to the north and south of the signal,
so located that they shall caution and warn motor vehicle drivers
of the existence of the traffic signal as they approach from either
direction.
[Ord. No. 20, § 10, 12-13-1949; Code 1965, § 52.14]
Every sign, signal, marking or device prohibited by this chapter
is hereby declared to be a public nuisance, and the Chief of Police
is hereby empowered to remove the same, or cause it to be removed,
without notice.
[Ord. No. 20, § 62, 12-13-1949; Code 1965, § 52.17]
The Director of Public Works is authorized with the approval
of the Mayor to close any street, alley, public place or highway and
withdraw the same from public use temporarily and during such period
as public work thereon or other public emergency or expedience shall
make such action necessary. No person shall use or attempt to use
a street, alley, public place or highway so withdrawn from public
use or drive or attempt to drive any vehicle or animal thereon. The
Director of Public Works shall place a sign or placard at each end
of the portion withdrawn from public use, such placard or sign to
have the following words printed thereon in letters three inches high:
"Street Closed. This street is closed to public use by authority of
Municipal Code, § 14-51."
[Ord. No. 3019, § 1, 7-28-1987]
All traffic-control signs, signals and devices to be used in
the City shall conform to the manual and specifications approved by
the State Highway Commission, except that those signs, signals or
devices which are necessary in the City parks or at entrances to City
parks may be of a different design compatible with the park setting
so long as the message conveyed by said sign is clear and understandable.
