Sec. 18-3. Regulatory powers of city manager and chief of
police.[163]
The city manager and the chief of police shall have power
to regulate traffic by means of traffic officers or semaphores
or other signaling devices on any portion of the street where
traffic is heavy or continuous, or where in their judgment
conditions may require, and may regulate the use of the
streets by processions or assemblages.
The city manager and the chief of police may also, when
and where conditions require:
Adopt any such regulations not in conflict with the provisions
of this chapter as they shall deem advisable and necessary,
and repeal, amend or modify any such regulations;
provided, that such regulations, laws or rules shall not be
deemed to be violated if, at the time of the alleged violation,
any sign or designation required under the terms of this chapter
was missing, effaced, mutilated or defaced, so that an
ordinarily observant person, under the same circumstances,
would not be apprised of or aware of the existence of such
rule.
Adopt regulations requiring all vehicles to come to a full
stop or to yield the right of way at any street intersection
other than vehicles on a street which has been designated as
a part of the primary system of state highways.
Designate by appropriate signs or markers one-way streets
and truck routes.
The chief of police shall have authority to erect and maintain
upon the sidewalks and streets of the city such signs, signals
and other devices for handling traffic as he may deem
necessary, provided the same are placed in accordance with
traffic regulations which have been approved by the city
manager.
It shall be unlawful for any person to violate any such
traffic regulation, sign, signal or other device for handling
traffic. (Code 1959, § 18-3.)
