10.20.040 - Installation of traffic control signals.

(a)

The city administrator, director, are hereby authorized to install and maintain official traffic control signals, as defined herein in this title and as may be amended by the vehicle code or the CAMUTCD, at those intersections and other places where traffic conditions are such as to require that the flow of traffic be alternately interrupted and released in order to prevent or relieve traffic congestion or to protect life or property from exceptional hazard.

(b)

The city engineer, or his or her respective qualified designees, shall ascertain and recommend the locations where such signals are required by field investigation, traffic counts and other traffic information as may be pertinent. Its determinations therefrom shall be made in accordance with those traffic engineering and safety standards and instructions set forth by applicable local, state, uniform or industry standards, for designing, applying and planning for the installation of said signals.

(c)

Whenever the city administrator, or director, installs and maintains an official traffic signal at any intersection, he or she may likewise erect and maintain at the intersection street name signs clearly visible to traffic approaching from all directions, unless the street name signs have previously been placed and are maintained at any of the intersections.

(Ord. No. 706, § 2, 2-5-2019)