Chapter 10.24
TURNING AND SPECIAL STOPS
Sections:
10.24.010 Authority to place and obedience to turning markers.
10.24.020 Restricted turn signs—Authority to place.
10.24.030 Restricted turn signs—Obedience required.
10.24.040 Authority to prohibit and obedience to right turns against traffic stop signal.
10.24.050 Erection and location of stop signs.
10.24.060 Designation of through or stop streets.
10.24.070 Emerging from alley, driveway or building.
10.24.010 Authority to place and obedience to turning markers.
A. The city traffic engineer is authorized to place markers, buttons or signs within or adjacent to intersections indicating the course to be traveled by vehicles turning at such intersections, and the city traffic engineer is authorized to allocate and indicate more than one lane of traffic from which drivers of vehicles may make right or left hand turns, and the course to be traveled as so indicated may conform to or be other than as prescribed by law or ordinance.
B. When authorized markers, buttons or other indications are placed within an intersection indicating the course to be traveled by vehicles turning thereat, no driver of a vehicle shall disobey the directions of such indications. (Prior code § 17.43: Ord. 267 § 35)
10.24.020 Restricted turn signs—Authority to place.
The city traffic engineer is authorized to determine those intersections at which drivers of vehicles shall not make a right turn, left turn, or U-turn, and shall place proper signs at such intersections. The making of such turns may be prohibited between certain hours of any day and permitted at other hours, in which event the same shall be plainly indicated on the signs or they may be removed when such turns are permitted. (Prior code § 17.44: Ord. 267 § 36)
10.24.030 Restricted turn signs—Obedience required.
Whenever authorized signs are erected indicating that no right turn or left turn or U-turn is permitted, no driver of a vehicle shall disobey the directions of any such sign. (Prior code § 17.45: Ord. 267 § 37)
10.24.040 Authority to prohibit and obedience to right turns against traffic stop signal.
The city traffic engineer is authorized to determine those intersections within any business or residence district at which drivers of vehicles shall not make a right turn against a red or stop signal and shall erect proper signs giving notice of such prohibition. No driver of a vehicle shall disobey the directions of any such sign. (Prior code § 17.46: Ord. 267 § 38)
10.24.050 Erection and location of stop signs.
Whenever any ordinance or resolution of the 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 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 of the state. (Prior code § 17.47: Ord. 267 § 40)
10.24.060 Designation of through or stop streets.
A. Those streets and parts of streets described in Section 10.16.020 are 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 described in Section 10.16.030.
C. The provisions of this section shall apply at those highway railway grade crossings as described in Section 10.16.050. (Prior code § 17.48: Ord. 267 § 41)
10.24.070 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. (Prior code § 17.49: Ord. 267 § 42)
10.24.080 School crossings.
It is unlawful for any person driving, operating or propelling, or causing to be propelled any vehicle, to fail to stop within fifty feet of the nearest side of a school pedestrian lane where any signal device, flagman or other person is stationed, giving warning that children are about to or are crossing the street, and it is further unlawful to proceed until such signal has stopped, raised or been removed or the flagman or person stationed at such pedestrian lane has given a signal to go or has left the locality. (Prior code § 17.50: Ord. 267 § 23)