Title 10 VEHICLES AND TRAFFIC
Chapter 10.10 Traffic Regulations
10.10.020 Installation of traffic signals and street name signs.
A. The public works director 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 protect life or
property from exceptional hazard.
B. Subject to city council approval, the
city engineer shall ascertain and determine the locations where such signals are
required by field observation, traffic counts and other traffic information as
may be pertinent and his or her determinations therefrom shall be made in
accordance with those traffic engineering and safety standards and instructions
set forth in the California Department of Transportation Traffic
Manual.
C. Whenever the public works director installs and maintains an
official traffic signal at any intersection, the director shall likewise erect
and maintain at such intersection street name signs that are visible to traffic
approaching the intersection from all directions. (Ord. 934-03 § 1
(part))
10.10.020
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