§ 3-2.301. Authority to Install Traffic-Control Devices.

(a)

The Public Works Director shall have the power and duty to place and maintain or cause to be placed and maintained official traffic-control devices when and as required under the traffic laws of the City to make effective the provisions of said laws.

(b)

Whenever the Vehicle Code of the State of California requires for the effectiveness of any provisions thereof that traffic-control devices be installed to give notice to the public of the application of such law, the Public Works Director is 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 Public Works Director may also place and maintain or cause to be placed and maintained such additional traffic control devices as he/she may deem necessary to regulate traffic or to guide or warn traffic, but he/she 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 the traffic laws of the City, or as may be determined by ordinance or resolution of the Council.

(Added by Ord. 234-C.S., amended by Ord. 3127-C.S., § 1, and Ord. 3363-C.S., § 1, effective 12-9-04)