Washington Administrative Code › Title 308 - Licensing, Department of (See also Titles 36, 98 and 196) › Chapter 308-330 - Washington model traffic ordinance › Section 308-330-265 - Traffic engineer - Authority

Current through Register Vol. 24-14, July 15, 2024
The traffic engineer is authorized:
(1) To place and maintain official traffic
			 control devices when and as required under the traffic ordinances or
			 resolutions of the local authority to make effective the provisions of said
			 ordinances or resolutions, and may place and maintain such additional official
			 traffic control devices as he/she may deem necessary to regulate, warn, or
			 guide traffic under the traffic ordinances or resolutions of the local
			 authority;
(2) To place and
			 maintain official traffic control devices as he/she may deem necessary to
			 regulate, warn, or guide traffic for construction, detours, emergencies, and
			 special conditions;
(3) To
			 designate and maintain, by appropriate devices, marks, or lines upon the
			 surface of the roadway, crosswalks at intersections where in his/her opinion
			 there is particular danger to pedestrians crossing the roadway, and in such
			 other places as he/she may deem necessary;
(4) To establish safety zones of such kind
			 and character and at such places as he/she may deem necessary for the
			 protection of pedestrians;
(5) To
			 mark traffic lanes upon the roadway of any highway where a regular alignment of
			 traffic is necessary;
(6) To
			 regulate the timing of traffic signals so as to permit the movement of traffic
			 in an orderly and safe manner;
(7)
			 To place official traffic control devices within or adjacent to intersections
			 indicating the course to be traveled by vehicles turning at such intersections,
			 in accordance with the provisions of this chapter, and such course to be
			 traveled as so indicated may conform to or be other than as prescribed by
			 law;
(8) 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;
(9) To erect and maintain stop signs, yield
			 signs, or other official traffic control devices to designate arterial highways
			 or to designate intersection or other roadway junctions at which vehicular
			 traffic on one or more of the roadways shall yield or stop and yield before
			 entering the intersection or junction, except as provided in
			 RCW
			 46.61.195;
(10) To issue special permits to authorize
			 the backing of a vehicle to the curb for the purpose of loading or unloading
			 property subject to the terms and conditions of such permit. Such permits may
			 be issued either to the owner or lessee of real property alongside the curb or
			 to the owner of the vehicle and shall grant to such person the privilege as
			 therein stated and authorized by this section;
(11) To erect signs indicating no parking
			 upon both sides of a highway when the width of the improved roadway does not
			 exceed twenty feet, or upon one side of a highway as indicated by such signs
			 when the width of the improved roadway is between twenty and twenty-eight
			 feet;
(12) To determine when
			 standing or parking may be permitted upon the left-hand side of any roadway
			 when the highway includes two or more separate roadways and traffic is
			 restricted to one direction upon any such roadway and to erect signs giving
			 notice thereof;
(13) To determine
			 and designate by proper signs places not exceeding one hundred feet in length
			 in which the stopping, standing, or parking of vehicles would create an
			 especially hazardous condition or would cause unusual delay to
			 traffic;
(14) To determine the
			 location of loading zones, passenger loading zones, and tow-away zones and
			 shall place and maintain appropriate signs or curb markings supplemented with
			 the appropriate words stenciled on the curb indicating the same and stating the
			 hours during which the provisions of this chapter are applicable;
(15) To establish bus stops, bus stands,
			 taxicab stands, and stands for other for hire vehicles on such highways in such
			 places and in such number as he/she shall determine to be of the greatest
			 benefit and convenience to the public, and every such bus stop, bus stand,
			 taxicab stand, or other stand shall be designated by appropriate signs or by
			 curb markings supplemented with the appropriate words stenciled on the
			 curb;
(16) To erect and maintain
			 official traffic control devices on any highway or part thereof to impose gross
			 weight limits on the basis of an engineering and traffic
			 investigation;
(17) To erect and
			 maintain official traffic control devices on any highway or part thereof to
			 prohibit the operation of trucks exceeding ten thousand pounds gross weight on
			 the basis of an engineering and traffic investigation: Provided, That such
			 devices shall not prohibit necessary local operation on such highways for the
			 purpose of making a pickup or delivery;
(18) To erect and maintain official traffic
			 control devices on any highway or part thereof to impose vehicle size
			 restrictions on the basis of an engineering and traffic
			 investigation;
(19) To determine
			 and designate those heavily traveled highways upon which shall be prohibited
			 any class or kind of traffic which is found to be incompatible with the normal
			 and safe movement of traffic on the basis of an engineering and traffic
			 investigation and shall erect appropriate official traffic control devices
			 giving notice thereof;
(20) To
			 install parking meters in the established parking meter zones upon the curb
			 adjacent to each designated parking space;
(21) To designate the parking space adjacent
			 to each parking meter for which such meter is to be used by appropriate
			 markings upon the curb and/or the pavement of the highway;
(22) To post appropriate signs making it
			 unlawful for pedestrians to cross highways in certain crosswalks when such
			 crossing would endanger either pedestrian or vehicular traffic using the
			 highway;
(23) To test new or
			 proposed traffic control devices under actual conditions of traffic.
Statutory Authority:
				  RCW
				  46.90.010. 94-01-082, § 308-330-265,
				  filed 12/13/93, effective 7/1/94.