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Timestamp: 2017-07-20 22:29:29
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Matched Legal Cases: ['§ 315', '§ 315', '§ 315', '§ 315', '§ 315', '§ 315', '§ 315', '§ 315', '§ 315', '§ 315', '§ 315', '§ 315', '§ 315', '§315', '§26', '§315', '§1']

City of Fenton, MO Traffic Control Devices
§ 315.010
§ 315.020
Manual and Specifications For Traffic Control Devices.
§ 315.030
§ 315.040
When Official Traffic Control Devices Required For Enforcement Purposes.
§ 315.050
Official Traffic Control Devices — Presumption of Legality.
§ 315.060
Traffic Control Signal Legend — Right Turn On Red Light — When.
§ 315.070
§ 315.080
§ 315.090
§ 315.100
§ 315.110
§ 315.120
Authority To Establish Play Streets.
§ 315.130
Vehicles On Pedestrian/Bicycle Paths.
Section 315.010
Section 315.020
Section 315.030
Section 315.040
Section 315.050
Section 315.060
Section 315.070
Section 315.080
Section 315.090
Section 315.100
Section 315.110
Section 315.120
Section 315.130
The City Traffic Engineer shall place and maintain traffic control
signs, signals and devices when and as required under the traffic
ordinances of the City to make effective the provisions of said ordinances
and may place and maintain such additional traffic control devices
as he/she may deem necessary to regulate traffic under the traffic
ordinances of the City or under State law or to guide or warn traffic.
All traffic control signs, signals and devices shall conform
to the manual and specifications approved by the State Highways and
Transportation Commission or those adopted by the Board of Aldermen
of the City. All signs or signals required hereunder for a particular
purpose shall so far as practicable be uniform as to type and location
throughout the City. All traffic control devices so erected and not
inconsistent with the provisions of this Title shall be official traffic
of any vehicle shall obey the instructions of any official traffic
control device applicable thereto placed in accordance with the provisions
of this Title, unless otherwise directed by a traffic or Police Officer,
a traffic control signal is not operating due to mechanical failure
or other reasons, all traffic shall come to a complete stop before
proceeding through the intersection at which the non-operating signal
No provision of this Title for which official traffic control
devices are required shall be enforced against an alleged violator
if at the time and place of the alleged violation an official device
is not in proper position and sufficiently legible to be seen by an
ordinarily observant person. Whenever a particular Section does not
state that official traffic control devices are required, such Section
shall be effective even though no devices are erected or in place.
official traffic control devices are placed in position approximately
conforming to the requirements of this Title, such devices shall be
presumed to have been so placed by the official act or direction of
lawful authority, unless the contrary shall be established by competent
B. Any official
traffic control device placed pursuant to the provisions of this Title
and purporting to conform to the lawful requirements pertaining to
such devices shall be presumed to comply with the requirements of
this Title, unless the contrary shall be established by competent
traffic is controlled by traffic control signals exhibiting different
colored lights or colored lighted arrows, successively one (1) at
a time or in combination, only the colors green, red and yellow shall
be used except for special pedestrian signals carrying a word legend,
and said lights shall indicate and apply to drivers of vehicles and
pedestrians as follows:
traffic facing a circular green signal may proceed straight through
or turn right or left unless a sign at such place prohibits either
such turn. But vehicular traffic, including vehicles turning right
or left, shall yield the right-of-way to other vehicles and to pedestrians
lawfully within the intersection or an adjacent crosswalk at the time
such signal is exhibited.
traffic facing a green arrow signal, shown alone or in combination
with another indication, may cautiously enter the intersection only
to make the movement indicated by such arrow or such other movement
as is permitted by other indications shown at the same time. Such
vehicular traffic shall yield the right-of-way to pedestrians lawfully
within an adjacent crosswalk and to other traffic lawfully using the
c. Unless otherwise directed by a pedestrian control signal as provided in Section 315.070, pedestrians facing any green signal, except when the sole green signal is a turn arrow, may proceed across the roadway within any marked or unmarked crosswalk.
traffic facing a steady yellow signal is thereby warned that the related
green movement is being terminated or that a red indication will be
exhibited immediately thereafter when vehicular traffic shall not
enter the intersection.
b. Pedestrians facing a steady yellow signal, unless otherwise directed by a pedestrian control signal as provided in Section 315.070, are thereby advised that there is insufficient time to cross the roadway before a red indication is shown and no pedestrian shall then start to cross the roadway.
traffic facing a steady red signal alone shall stop before entering
the crosswalk on the near side of the intersection or, if none, then
before entering the intersection and shall remain standing until a
green indication is shown except as provided in paragraph (b) of this
driver of a vehicle which is stopped as close as practicable at the
entrance to the crosswalk on the near side of the intersection or,
if none, then at the entrance to the intersection in obedience to
a red signal may cautiously enter the intersection to make a right
turn but shall yield the right-of-way to pedestrians and other traffic
proceeding as directed by the signal at the intersection, except that
the State Highways and Transportation Commission with reference to
an intersection involving a State highway, and local authorities with
reference to an intersection involving other highways under their
jurisdiction, may prohibit any such right turn against a red signal
at any intersection where safety conditions so require, said prohibition
shall be effective when a sign is erected at such intersection giving
event an official traffic control signal is erected and maintained
at a place other than an intersection, the provisions of this Section
shall be applicable except as to those provisions which by their nature
can have no application. Any stop required shall be made at a sign
or marking on the pavement indicating where the stop shall be made,
but in the absence of any such sign or marking, the stop shall be
special pedestrian control signals exhibiting the words "Walk" or "Don't Walk" or appropriate symbols are in place,
such signals shall indicate as follows:
1. "WALK": Pedestrians facing such signal may proceed across
the roadway in the direction of the signal and shall be given the
right-of-way by the drivers of all vehicles.
2. "WAIT" or "DON'T WALK": No pedestrian shall
start to cross the roadway in the direction of such signal, but any
pedestrian who has partially completed his/her crossing on the walk
signal shall proceed to a sidewalk or safety zone while the wait signal
an illuminated flashing red or yellow signal is used in a traffic
sign or signal, it shall require obedience by vehicular traffic as
1. Flashing red (stop signal). When a red lens is illuminated
with rapid intermittent flashes, drivers of vehicles shall stop before
entering the nearest crosswalk at an intersection or at a limit line
when marked or, if none, then before entering the intersection, and
the right to proceed shall be subject to the rules applicable after
making a stop at a stop sign.
2. Flashing yellow (caution signal). When a yellow lens is
illuminated with rapid intermittent flashes, drivers of vehicles may
When lane direction control signals are placed over the individual
lanes of a street or highway, vehicular traffic may travel in any
lane over which a green signal is shown but shall not enter or travel
in any lane over which a red signal is shown.
No person shall place, maintain or display upon or in view of
any highway an unauthorized sign, signal, marking or device which
purports to be or is an imitation of or resembles an official traffic
control device or railroad sign or signal, or which attempts to direct
the movement of traffic, or which hides from view or interferes with
the effectiveness of any official traffic control device or any railroad
No person shall without lawful authority attempt to or in fact
alter, deface, injure, knock down or remove any official traffic control
device or any railroad sign or signal or any inscription, shield or
insignia thereon or any other part thereof.
[R.O. 2006 §315.130; Ord. No. 497 §26, 6-26-1979]
Traffic Engineer shall have authority to declare any street or part
thereof a play street and to place appropriate signs or devices in
the roadway indicating and helping to protect the same.
authorized signs are erected indicating any street or part thereof
as a play street, no person shall drive a vehicle upon any such street
or portion thereof except drivers of vehicles having business or whose
residences are within such closed area, and then any said driver shall
exercise the greatest care in driving upon any such street or portion
[R.O. 2006 §315.135; Ord. No. 954 §1, 11-17-1986]
When signs are erected giving notice thereof, no person shall
drive a vehicle upon any pedestrian/bicycle path or portion thereof.