Sec. 18-56. Required position and method of turning at intersections;
authority of city manager as to markers,
etc., indicating specified course for turns
at intersections.[210]
The driver of a vehicle intending to turn at an intersection
or other location on any street, except as prohibited by the
preceding section or any other provision of this chapter, shall
do so as follows:
(1) Right turn. Both the approach for a right turn and a
right turn shall be made as close as practicable to the right-hand
curb or edge of the roadway.
(2) Left turns on two-way roadways. At any intersection
where traffic is permitted to move in both directions on each
roadway entering the intersection, an approach for a left turn
shall be made in that portion of the right half of the roadway
nearest the center line thereof and by passing to the
right of such center line where it enters the intersection and
after entering the intersection the left turn shall be made so
as to leave the intersection to the right of the center line of
the roadway being entered. Whenever practicable the left
turn shall be made in that portion of the intersection to the
left of the center of the intersection.
(3) Left turns on other than two-way roadways. At any
intersection where traffic is restricted to one direction on one
or more of the roadways, and at any crossover from one roadway
of a divided street to another roadway thereof on which
traffic moves in the opposite direction, the driver of a vehicle
intending to turn left at any such intersection or crossover
shall approach the intersection or crossover in the extreme
left-hand lane lawfully available to traffic moving in the direction
of travel of such vehicle and after entering the intersection
or crossover the left turn shall be made so as to leave the
intersection or crossover, as nearly as practicable, in the left-hand
lane lawfully available to traffic moving in such direction
upon the roadway being entered.
The city manager may cause markers, buttons or signs to
be placed within or adjacent to intersections and thereby require
and direct that a different course from that specified in
this section be traveled by vehicles turning at any intersection,
and when markers, buttons or signs are so placed, no
driver of a vehicle shall turn a vehicle at an intersection other
than as directed and required by such markers, buttons or
signs. (Code 1959, § 18-56.)
