Ohio Administrative Code › Title 3335 - Ohio State University › Chapter 3335-21 - Traffic and Parking › Section 3335-21-09 - Traffic control devices

Current through all regulations passed and filed through July 1, 2024
(A)
								Authority to
			 install. The university shall place and maintain traffic control signs, signals
			 and devices when and as required under  this chapter to make effective the
			 provisions of  this chapter. The university may place and maintain such
			 additional traffic control devices as may be deemed necessary to regulate
			 traffic and parking under these regulations or under state law or to guide or
			 warn traffic.
(B)
								Conformity with Ohio manual. All traffic control signs,
			 signals and devices shall conform to the specifications of the "Ohio Manual of
			 Uniform Traffic Control Devices." All traffic control devices so erected and
			 not inconsistent with the provisions of state law or  rules
			 shall be official traffic control devices.
(C)
								Obedience to
			 devices. No driver of a vehicle shall fail to obey the instructions of an
			 official traffic control device applicable thereto placed in accordance with
			 the provisions of  this chapter, unless otherwise
			 directed by a law enforcement officer, traffic control officer, hospital and
			 campus security officer, or other public safety personnel subject to the
			 exceptions granted the driver of an authorized emergency vehicle in
			  this chapter.
(D)
								Signs required
			 for enforcement. No provision of  this chapter for which signs are
			 required shall be enforced, and no assessment shall be made against an alleged
			 violator if, at the time and place of the alleged violation, an official sign
			 is not in proper position and sufficiently legible to be seen by an ordinarily
			 observant person. Whenever a particular  rule does not
			 state that signs are required, such  shall be
			 effective even though no signs are erected or in place.
(E)
								Interference with
			 devices or signals. No person shall, without lawful authority from the
			 university, attempt to or in fact alter, deface, injure, knock down or remove
			 any official traffic control device or signal, or any inscription, shield or
			 insignia thereon, or any other part thereof.
(F)
								One-way streets,
			 roads and alleys. Whenever the university designates a street, roadway or alley
			 as one-way, signs giving notice thereof shall be placed and maintained. No such
			 rule  shall be effective unless such signs are in place. Signs
			 indicating the direction of lawful traffic movement shall be placed at every
			 intersection where movement of traffic in the opposite direction is
			 prohibited.
(G)
								Restriction on direction during certain periods. The
			 university is hereby authorized to determine and designate streets and
			 roadways, parts of streets and roadways or specific lanes thereon upon which
			 vehicular traffic shall proceed in one direction during one period and the
			 opposite direction during another period of the day, and shall either position
			 law enforcement officers, hospital and campus security officers, or traffic
			 control officers, or place and maintain appropriate markings, signs, barriers
			 or other devices to give notice thereof The university may erect signs
			 temporarily designating lanes to be used by traffic moving in a particular
			 direction, regardless of the center line of the street and
			 roadway.
(H)
								Markers, buttons and signs regulating turns. The
			 university is hereby authorized to place markers, buttons or signs within or
			 adjacent to intersections indicating the course to be traveled by vehicles
			 turning at such intersections. Such course to be traveled as so indicated may
			 conform to or be other than as prescribed by state statute or 
			 rules.
(I)
								Additional turning restrictions. The university is
			 hereby authorized to determine those intersections at which drivers of vehicles
			 shall not make a right, left or "U" turn, and shall place proper signs at such
			 intersections. The making of such turns may be prohibited between certain hours
			 of any day and permitted at other hours, in which event the same shall be
			 plainly indicated on the signs or they may be removed when such turns are
			 permitted.
(J)
								Regulation of speed. The university is hereby
			 authorized to regulate the timing of traffic in an orderly and safe manner at
			 speeds slightly at variance from the speeds otherwise applicable within the
			 vicinity or at intersections and shall erect appropriate signs giving notice
			 thereof
(K)
								Bus stops and taxicab stands. The university shall
			 establish bus stops, bus stands, taxicab stands and stands for other passenger
			 common-carrier motor vehicles on streets and roadways in such places that
			 provide adequate accessibility and safety to the public. Every such bus stop,
			 bus stand, taxicab stand or other stand shall be designated by appropriate
			 signs.
(L)
								Loading zones. The university is hereby authorized to
			 determine the location of passenger and freight curb loading zones and shall
			 place and maintain appropriate signs indicating the same and stating the hours
			 during which they may be lawfully used.
Replaces: 3335-21-11