Court Opinion

ID: 9648807
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-23 14:35:31.023623+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T18:12:05.531134
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on state’s motion for rehearing.
BEAUCHAMP, Judge.
The state, through its district and county attorneys, has filed a motion for rehearing in which it is suggested that we probably overlooked the provision in 6701-d, Section 73-b, Revised Civil Statute, which provides that the driver of a motor vehicle shall stop in obedience to a stop sign at an intersection where a stop sign is erected, although the highway entered is not a part of a through highway.
This section makes no provision as to the authority for placing the sign at a highway entrance or crossing. We believe that the effect of such a holding- would be that any individual, whether authorized to do so or not, might place a stop sign at a highway intersection and that it would constitute a misdemeanor if the driver of a motor vehicle failed to respect it. Certainly the legislature had in mind that the law should apply when the sign was placed at the intersection by someone authorized by law to do so. Further discussion will not be necessary.
The state’s motion for rehearing is overruled.