Chapter 6-1
TRAFFIC CODE; GENERAL PROVISIONS

SECTION:

6-1-1:    TRAFFIC CODE ADOPTED BY REFERENCE

6-1-2:    ISSUANCE OF CITATIONS OR COMPLAINTS

6-1-3:    PRIMA FACIE SPEED; POSTED STREETS

6-1-4:    TRAFFIC CONTROL

6-1-5:    STOP AND YIELD INTERSECTIONS

6-1-1 TRAFFIC CODE ADOPTED BY REFERENCE:

Except insofar as the application hereof is clearly impractical or inappropriate, in view of the context of purposes or penalty as provided, all of the definitions, requirements, regulations, prohibitions, penalties, provisions and sections of the Utah traffic code, Utah Code Annotated Title 41, as amended, with a corresponding penalty of infraction, class C misdemeanor or class B misdemeanor, are hereby adopted by the city. Any and all violations thereof shall be considered violations of this section and each such violation shall be subject to the penalties provided in section 1-4-1 of this code. (2007 Code)

6-1-2 ISSUANCE OF CITATIONS OR COMPLAINTS:

Where a citation or complaint is issued, it shall be sufficient to use the number of the Utah code followed by "the ordinances of (name of municipality)" to show the section of the ordinance of the city which has been violated. (Ord. 22B, 5-10-1979)

6-1-3 PRIMA FACIE SPEED; POSTED STREETS:

A.    Compliance With Signs: When appropriate traffic control or regulatory signs giving notice of speeds are posted, the prima facie maximum speed limits designated upon said signs shall apply to the appropriate streets or portions of streets so posted.

B.    Absence Of Signs: In the absence of any speed limit sign designating a speed limit applicable thereto, the prima facie speed limit shall be twenty-five (25) miles per hour. (Ord. 4-2020, 7-15-2020; Ord. 22B, 5-10-1979)

6-1-4 TRAFFIC CONTROL:

The traffic control and regulation of all public streets shall be as posted, regulated or controlled by appropriate traffic control devices, signs or other regulatory devices or controls. (Ord. 22B, 5-10-1979)

6-1-5 STOP AND YIELD INTERSECTIONS:

When appropriate traffic control or regulatory signs are posted at entrances to intersections identifying them as stop or yield entrances, such streets are hereby declared to be stop entrances as designated by the signs. (Ord. 22B, 5-10-1979)