The City Administrator shall have placed and maintained traffic
control signs, signals and devices when and as required under the
traffic ordinances of this city to make effective the provisions of
such ordinances, and may have placed and maintained such additional
traffic control signs, signals and devices as may be deemed necessary
to regulate traffic under the traffic ordinances of this city or under
state law or to guide or warn traffic.
All traffic control signs, signals and devices shall conform
to the manual and specifications approved by the state highway department.
All signs and 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 state law or this Chapter shall be official
traffic control devices.
The driver of any vehicle shall obey the instructions of any
official traffic control device applicable thereto placed in accordance
with the provisions of this Chapter or law, unless otherwise directed
by a police officer, subject to the exceptions granted the driver
of an authorized emergency vehicle in this Chapter.
No provision of this Chapter for which signs are required shall
be enforced against an alleged violator if at the time and place of
the alleged violation an official sign is not in proper position and
sufficiently legible to be seen by an ordinarily observant person.
Whenever a particular section does not state that signs are required,
such section shall be effective even though no signs are erected or
in place.
Whenever traffic is controlled by traffic control signals exhibiting
the words "Go", "Caution" or "Stop", or exhibiting different colored
lights successively one at a time, or with arrows, the following colors
only shall be used, and the terms and lights shall indicate and apply
to drivers of vehicles and pedestrians as follows:
1.
Green alone or "Go".
a.
Vehicular traffic facing the signal may proceed straight through
or turn right or left unless a sign or barricade at such place prohibits
either such turn. But vehicular traffic, including vehicles turning
right or left, shall yield the right-of-way to other vehicles and
to pedestrians lawfully within the intersection or an adjacent crosswalk
at the time such signal is exhibited.
b.
Pedestrians facing the signal may proceed across the roadway within
any marked or unmarked crosswalk.
2.
Steady yellow alone.
a.
Vehicular traffic facing the signal is thereby warned that the red
or "Stop" signal will be exhibited immediately thereafter, and such
vehicular traffic shall not enter or be crossing the intersection
when the red or "Stop" signal is exhibited.
b.
Pedestrians facing such signal are thereby advised that there is
insufficient time to cross the roadway, and any pedestrian then starting
to cross shall yield the right-of-way to all vehicles.
3.
Steady red alone, or "Stop".
a.
Vehicular traffic facing the signal shall stop before entering the
crosswalk on the near side of the intersection or, if none, then before
entering the intersection and shall remain standing until green or
"Go" is shown alone, or, while the signal is still red, vehicular
traffic may turn right from the appropriate lane after coming to the
required stop, unless otherwise provided by the city, or unless hereinafter
provided.
Such vehicular traffic shall yield the right-of-way to pedestrians
lawfully within an adjacent crosswalk and to other traffic lawfully
using the intersection.
b.
In order to prohibit right turns on the red signal after the required
stop, the city must erect clear, concise signs informing drivers that
such turns are prohibited. The State Highway Department shall specify
the design of the sign to be used for this purpose and it shall be
used uniformly throughout the state.
c.
No pedestrian facing such signal shall enter the roadway unless he
can do so safely and without interfering with any vehicular traffic.
4.
Steady red with green arrow.
a.
Vehicular traffic facing such signal may cautiously enter the intersection
only to make the movement indicated by such arrow, but shall yield
the right-of-way to pedestrians lawfully within a crosswalk and to
other traffic lawfully using the intersection.
b.
No pedestrian facing such signal shall enter the roadway until the
green or "Go" is shown alone or until authorized so to do by pedestrian
"Walk" signal.
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In the event an official traffic control signal is erected and
maintained at a place other than an intersection, the provisions of
this section shall be applicable except as to those provisions which
by their nature can have no application. Any stop required shall be
made at a sign or marking on the pavement indicating where the stop
shall be made; but, in the absences of any such sign or marking, the
stop shall be made at the signal.
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Whenever special pedestrian control signals exhibiting the words
"Walk" or "Wait" or "Don't Walk" are in place, such signals shall
indicate as follows:
1.
"Walk." Pedestrians facing such signal may proceed across the roadway
in the direction of the signal and shall be given the right-of-way
by the drivers of all vehicles.
2.
"Wait or Don't Walk." No pedestrian shall start to cross the roadway
in the direction of such signal, but any pedestrian who has partially
completed his crossing on the walk signal shall proceed to a sidewalk
or safety island while the wait signal is showing.
1.
Whenever an illuminated flashing red or yellow signal is used in
a traffic sign or signal, it shall require obedience by vehicular
traffic as follows:
a.
"Flashing red" (stop signal). When a red lens is illuminated with
rapid intermittent flashes, drivers of vehicles shall stop before
entering the nearest crosswalk at an intersection or at a limit line
when marked, or, if none, then before entering the intersection; and
the right to proceed shall be subject to the rules applicable after
making a stop at a stop sign.
b.
"Flashing yellow" (caution only). When a yellow lens is illuminated
with rapid intermittent flashes, drivers of vehicles may proceed through
the intersection or past such signal only with caution.
2.
This section shall not apply at railroad grade crossings.
Whenever a pedestrian actuated school crossing is provided,
it requires obedience by vehicular traffic and pedestrians as follows:
1.
Flashing Yellow.
a.
When a yellow lens is illuminated with rapid intermittent flashes,
drivers or operators of vehicles may proceed through the intersection
or pass such signal only with caution.
b.
Pedestrians shall not proceed in conflict with traffic, but may actuate
the signal control switch, and shall wait until steady red alone is
shown before entering the roadway or intersection controlled by the
signal.
2.
Steady Yellow Alone.
a.
Vehicular traffic facing the signal is thereby warned that the red
or "Stop" signal will be exhibited immediately thereafter, and such
vehicular traffic shall not enter or be crossing the intersection
or pass the signal when the red or "Stop" signal is exhibited.
b.
No pedestrian shall enter the roadway or intersection on which the
signal controls vehicular traffic until steady red alone is shown.
3.
Steady Red.
a.
Vehicular traffic facing the signal shall stop before entering the
crosswalk on the near side of the intersection, or, if none, then
before passing the signal or entering the intersection and shall remain
standing until the flashing yellow is shown alone.
b.
Pedestrians may proceed across the road controlled by the signal,
and shall be given the right-of-way by the drivers of all vehicles.
4.
Steady Red And Steady Yellow Combined.
a.
Vehicular traffic facing the signal is thereby warned that the flashing
yellow signal will be exhibited immediately thereafter, and that such
vehicular traffic shall remain standing until the flashing yellow
is shown alone.
b.
Pedestrians are thereby warned that the flashing yellow signal is
about to be shown and shall not enter the signal controlled roadway
or intersection, or in a direction which conflicts with the movement
of vehicular traffic; but any pedestrian who has partially completed
his crossing shall proceed to the nearest sidewalk or safety island,
and shall be given the right-of-way by the drivers of all vehicles.
1.
No person shall place, maintain or display upon or in view of any
roadway 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 projects any flashing or revolving beams
of light, or which hides from view or interferes with the effectiveness
of any official traffic control device or any railroad sign or signal.
2.
No person shall place or maintain nor shall any public authority
permit upon any highway any traffic sign, signal or device bearing
thereon any commercial advertising.
3.
This section shall not prohibit the erection upon private property
adjacent to highways of signs giving useful directional information
and of a type that cannot be mistaken for official signs.
4.
Every such prohibited sign, signal, marking or device is hereby declared
to be a public nuisance; and the city is hereby empowered to remove
the same without notice.
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.
The City Commission shall have authority to declare any street
or part thereof a play street and to have placed appropriate signs
or devices in the roadway indicating and helping to protect the same.
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 such driver shall exercise the greatest care in driving upon
any such street or portion thereof.
The City Commission is hereby authorized:
1.
To designate and maintain, by appropriate devices, marks or lines
upon the surface of the roadway, crosswalks at intersection where
in its opinion there is particular danger to pedestrians crossing
the roadway and at such other places as it may deem necessary; and
2.
To establish safety zones or islands of such kind and character and
at such places as it may deem necessary for the protection of pedestrians.
1.
The City Administrator is hereby authorized to have traffic lanes
marked upon the roadway of any street where a regular alignment of
traffic is necessary.
2.
Where such traffic lanes have been marked, it is unlawful for the
operator of any vehicle to fail or refuse to keep such vehicle within
the boundaries of any such lane except when lawfully passing another
vehicle or preparatory to making a lawful turning movement or otherwise
authorized by ordinance.
