Chapter 10.24
SPECIAL STOPS REQUIRED**

Sections:

10.24.010    Sign erection.

10.24.020    Through streets.

10.24.030    Emerging from alley, driveway or building.

**    For statutory provisions regarding the proper location for the erection of stop signs, see Vehicle Code §21355.

10.24.010 Sign erection.

Whenever any ordinance or resolution of this city designates and describes any street or portion thereof as a through street, or any intersection at which vehicles are required to stop at one or more entrances thereto, or any railroad grade crossing at which vehicles are required to stop, the city traffic engineer shall erect and maintain stop signs as follows:

A.    A stop sign shall be erected on each and every street intersecting such through street or portion thereof so designated and at those entrances of other intersections where a stop is required and at any railroad grade crossing so designated.  Every such sign shall conform with and shall be placed as provided in the Vehicle Code.

B.    When a required stop is to apply at the entrance to an intersection from a one-way street, the roadway of which is thirty feet or more in width, stop signs shall be erected both on the left and the right sides of such one-way street at or near the entrance to the intersection.

C.    Notwithstanding any other provision of this title, stop signs shall not be erected at any entrance to an intersection when such entrance is controlled by an official traffic control signal, nor at any railroad grade crossing which is controlled by automatic signals, gates or other train-actuated control devices except where a stop sign may be necessary to control traffic on intersecting highways adjacent to such grade crossing.  (Ord. 14-73 §3, 1973; Ord. 6-61 §7, 1961).

10.24.020 Through streets.

A.    Those streets and parts of streets established by resolution of the council are declared to be through streets for the purposes of this section.

B.    The provisions of this section shall also apply at one or more entrances to the intersections as such entrances and intersections are established by resolution of the council.

C.    The provisions of this section shall apply at those highway railway grade crossings as established by resolution of the council.  (Ord. 6-61 §7.1, 1961).

10.24.030 Emerging from alley, driveway or building.

The driver of a vehicle emerging from an alley, driveway or building shall stop such vehicle immediately prior to driving onto a sidewalk or into the sidewalk area extending across any alleyway or driveway.  (Ord. 6-61 §7.2, 1961).