10.20.010 - Authority to install traffic control devices.

(a)

The city administrator or director shall have the authority to place and maintain or cause to be placed and maintained official traffic control devices, as defined herein in this title and as may be amended by the vehicle code, when and as required to make effective the provisions of this title.

(b)

Whenever the vehicle code or the city's code, ordinances, resolutions or policies requires, for the effectiveness of any provision thereof, the traffic control devices be installed to give notice to the public of the application of such law, the city administrator or director are hereby authorized to install or cause to be installed the necessary devices subject to any limitations or restrictions set forth in the law applicable thereto.

(c)

The city administrator, or director, may also place and maintain or cause to be placed and maintained such additional traffic control devices as the traffic commission or city council may deem necessary or proper to regulate traffic or to guide or warn traffic, but such determination shall be made only upon the basis of traffic engineering principles and traffic investigations and in accordance with such standards, limitations, and rules as may be set forth in the vehicle code, the CAMUTCD, and this title or as may be determined by ordinance or resolution of the city council.

(Ord. No. 706, § 2, 2-5-2019)