Municipal Code, Complete - City of Santa Barbara

10.12.050 Required for Enforcement Purposes.
No provision of the Vehicle Code of the State of California or of this title for which signs are required shall be
enforced against an alleged violator unless appropriate signs are in place and sufficiently legible to be seen by an
ordinarily observant person, giving notice of such provisions of the traffic laws. (Ord. 2713 §1(part), 1959; prior
Code §31.22.)
10.12.060 Installation of Traffic Signals - Transportation Engineer.
The Transportation Engineer shall install 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. (Ord. 2713 §1(part), 1959;
prior Code §31.23.)
10.12.070 Information for Determination of Traffic Signal Locations.
The Transportation Engineer shall ascertain and determine the locations where such signals are deemed by him to
be necessary for the preservation of the public safety by resort to field observations, traffic counts and other traffic
information as may be pertinent. (Ord. 2713 §1(part), 1959; prior Code §31.24.)
10.12.080 Temporary Removal of Signals and Other Facilities - Transportation Engineer.
The Transportation Engineer may temporarily remove traffic signals and necessary appurtenances and any other
sign or device when such removal becomes necessary because of street, utility or sewer construction or because of
driveway construction or relocation. When such construction or relocation has been completed, the Transportation
Engineer shall replace the required signals, appurtenances, signs or devices. (Ord. 2713 §1(part), 1959; prior Code
§31.25.)
10.12.090 Distinctive Roadway Markings - Transportation Engineer.
The Transportation Engineer is authorized to place distinctive roadway markings as described in Section
525.2(21459) of the Vehicle Code on those streets or parts of streets where the volume of traffic, alignment or width
of the roadway renders it hazardous to drive on the left side of such markings or signs and markings. Such markings
or signs and markings shall have the same effect as set forth in Section 525.2(21459) of the Vehicle Code. (Ord.
2713 §1(part), 1959; prior Code §31.26.)
10.12.100 Traffic Markings on Pavement to Direct Movement.
The Transportation Engineer may place appropriate traffic guidelines dividing highways into the number of traffic
lanes that is proper and necessary and to place such other pavement markings as are necessary to direct vehicular
movements in accordance with requirements of this title and the California Vehicle Code. (Ord. 2713 §1(part), 1959;
prior Code §31.27.)
10.12.110 Removal of Signs and Markings - Council Finding.
If the Transportation Engineer has erected any sign or placed on the pavement any markings pursuant to a finding
of the Council that facts existed necessitating the traffic regulation or prohibition indicated by such sign or markings,
and the Council finds that such regulation or prohibition no longer is necessary, the Transportation Engineer shall
remove such sign or markings. (Ord. 2713 §1(part), 1959; prior Code §31.28.)
10.12.120 Removal of Signs and Markings - Transportation Engineer Finding.
If the Transportation Engineer has erected any sign or placed on the pavement any markings pursuant to his
finding that facts existed necessitating the traffic regulation or prohibition indicated by such sign or markings, and he
finds that such regulations or prohibition no longer is necessary, he shall remove such sign or markings. (Ord. 2713
§1(part), 1959; prior Code §31.29.)
10.12.130 Interference with Signs - Misdemeanor.
Every person who, without permission of the Transportation Engineer to do so, removes, defaces, damages, or
causes the removal, defacement, or damage of any sign erected pursuant to this title is guilty of a misdemeanor. (Ord.
2713 §1(part), 1959; prior Code §31.30.)
234 rev. 3/31/93