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 City of Hermosa Beach Municipal Code -- Vehicles and Traffic
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VEHICLES AND TRAFFIC
Chapter 10.16
TRAFFIC CONTROL DEVICES
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10.16. 010 Authority to install. The city traffic engineer shall have the authority to place and maintain or cause to be placed and maintained official traffic-control devices when and as required to make effective the provisions of this chapter. Whenever the Vehicle Code of the state requires, for the effectiveness of any provision thereof, that traffic-control devices be installed to give notice to the public of the application of such law, the city traffic engineer is authorized to install or cause to be installed the necessary devices subject to any limitations or restrictions set forth in the law applicable thereto. The city traffic engineer may also place and maintain or cause to be placed or maintained such additional traffic-control devices as he may deem necessary or proper to regulate traffic or to guide or warn traffic, but he shall make such determination 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 this code or as may be determined by ordinance or resolution of the city council. (Prior code § 19-39)
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10.16. 020 Signs to be in place and legible prior to enforcement of laws. No provision of this chapter for which signs or markings are required shall be enforced against an alleged violator if, at the time and place of the alleged violation, an official sign or marking is not in place and sufficiently legible and visible to be seen by an ordinarily observant person. (Prior code § 19-40)
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10.16. 030 Installation generally. When authorized by action of the city council, the city traffic engineer shall install and maintain official traffic signals 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 profit life or property from exceptional hazard. The city traffic engineer shall ascertain, determine and recommend the locations where such signals are required, by field investigation, traffic counts and other traffic information as may be pertinent and his determinations therefrom shall be made in accordance with those traffic engineering and safety standards and instructions set forth in the California Planning Manual, part 8, issued by the division of highways of the state department of transportation. Whenever the city traffic engineer installs and maintains an official traffic signal at any intersection, he shall likewise erect and maintain at such intersection street name signs visible to the principle flow of traffic unless such street name signs have previously been placed and are maintained at any such intersection. (Prior code § 19-41)
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10.16. 040 Hours of operation. The city traffic engineer shall determine the hours and days during which any traffic-control device shall be in operation or be in effect, except in those cases where such hours or days are specified in this code or in any other ordinances or resolution of this city. (Prior code § 19-42)
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10.16. 050 Lane marking. The city traffic engineer is authorized to mark center lines and lane lines upon the surface of the roadway to indicate the course to be traveled by vehicles and may place signs temporarily designating lanes to be used by traffic moving in a particular direction, regardless of the center line of the highway. (Prior code § 19-43)
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10.16. 060 Signs indicating one-way streets or alleys. Whenever any ordinance or resolution of this city designates any one-way street or alley, the city traffic engineer shall place and maintain signs giving notice thereof, and no such regulations shall be effective unless such signs are in place. Signs indicating the direction of lawful traffic movement shall be placed at every intersection where movement of traffic in the opposite direction is prohibited. (Prior code § 19-44)
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10.16. 070 Distinctive roadway markings. The city traffic engineer is authorized to place and maintain distinctive roadway markings as described in the Vehicle Code of the state on those streets or parts of streets where the volume of traffic or the vertical or other curvature of the roadway renders it hazardous to drive on the left side of such marking or signs and markings. Such marking or signs and markings shall have the same effect as similar markings placed by the state department of transportation pursuant to provisions of the Vehicle Code of the state. (Prior code § 19-45)
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10.16. 080 Authority to remove, relocate and discontinue traffic-control devices. The city traffic engineer is authorized to remove, relocate or discontinue the operation of any traffic-control device not specifically required by the Vehicle Code of the state or this code whenever he shall determine in any particular case that the conditions which warranted or required the installation no longer exist or obtain. (Prior code § 19-46)
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10.16. 090 Obedience to traffic-control devices generally. The operator of any vehicle or train shall obey the instructions of any official traffic-control device placed in accordance with this chapter, unless otherwise directed by a police officer or other authorized person, subject to the exceptions granted the operator of an authorized emergency vehicle when responding to emergency calls. (Prior code § 19-47)
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10.16. 100 Signs indicating turns at intersections. The city traffic engineer is authorized to place markers, buttons or signs within or adjacent to intersections and indicating the course to be traveled by vehicles turning at such intersections, and the city traffic engineer is authorized to locate 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. 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 § 19-48)
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10.16. 110 Restricted turn signs--Authority to install. The city traffic engineer is authorized to determine those intersections at which drivers of vehicles shall not make a right, left 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 the signs may be removed when such turns are permitted. (Prior code § 19-49)
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10.16. 120 Restricted turn signs--Compliance required. Whenever authorized signs are erected indicating that no right, left or "U" turn is permitted, no driver of a vehicle shall disobey the directions of any such sign. (Prior code § 19-50)
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10.16. 130 Right turns against stop signals. No driver of a vehicle shall make a right turn against a red or stop signal at any intersection which is signposted giving notice of such restriction as provided in this section. The city traffic engineer shall post appropriate signs giving effect to this section where he determines that the making of right turns against a traffic signal "stop" indication would seriously interfere with the safe and orderly flow of traffic. (Prior code § 19-51)
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10.16. 140 Erection of stop signs and yield signs. 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 or yield signs as follows: A. Stop Signs. A stop sign shall be erected on each 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 state Vehicle Code. 2. Stop or Yield Signs--Through Street or Through Highway. Every highway or portion thereof on which vehicular traffic is given preferential right-of-way, and at the entrances to which vehicular traffic from intersecting highways is required by law to yield right-of-way to vehicles on such through highway in obedience to either a stop sign or a yield sign, when such signs are erected. (Prior code § 19-52)
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10.16. 150 Regulation of speed by traffic signals. The city traffic engineer is authorized to regulate the timing of traffic signals so as to permit the movement of traffic in an orderly and safe manner at speeds slightly at variance from the speeds otherwise applicable within the district or at intersections, and shall erect appropriate signs giving notice thereof. (Prior code § 19-53)
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10.16. 160 Obedience to signs and barriers--Unauthorized removal of signs and barriers. No person shall disobey the instructions or operate a vehicle contrary to the directions or provisions of any barrier or sign lawfully placed on any street by any person, public utility or by any department of this city, nor shall any unauthorized person move or alter the position of any such barrier or sign. (Prior code § 19-54)
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10.16. 170 Unapproved signs and barriers. No person, public utility or department in the city shall erect or place any barrier or sign on any street unless of a type approved by the city traffic engineer. (Prior code § 19-55)
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