Chapter 10.28
SPECIAL STOPS

Sections:

10.28.010  Signposting.

10.28.020  Obedience to stop signs required.

10.28.030  Emerging from alley or driveway.

10.28.010 Signposting.

A. 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 designated in subsection B of this section.

B. A stop sign shall be erected on each and every street intersecting such through street or portion thereof so designated and at those entrances to other intersections where a stop is required and at any railroad grade crossing so designated; provided, however, stop signs shall not be erected or maintained at any entrance to an intersection when such entrance is controlled by an official traffic-control signal. Every such sign shall conform with and shall be placed as provided in the Vehicle Code. (Ord. 74-6 § 7, 1974)

10.28.020 Obedience to stop signs required.

A. It is unlawful to fail to obey a stop sign erected as provided in this title.

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

C. 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 or ordinance of the council.

D. The provisions of this section shall apply at those highway railway grade crossings as may be established by resolution or ordinance of the council. (Ord. 74-6 § 7.1, 1974)

10.28.030 Emerging from alley or driveway.

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. 74-6 § 7.2, 1974)