Ordinance 44-69 - Laserfiche WebLink

• a • (b) The Mayor, or his designee, may in the exercise of • his discretion place and maintain such additional • traffic-control signs, signals, anddevices as he may deem necessary to regulate traffic under the traffic ordinances of this city or under state law or to guide or warn traffic. Y Section 4: OFFICIAL TRAFFIC--CONTROL DEVICES PRESUMPTION OF LEGALITY • (a) Whenever official traffic-control devices are placed in position approximately conforming to the requirements of the traffic ordinances of this city, or state law, 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 evidence. (b) Any official traffic-control device placed pursuant to the provisions of the traffic ordinances of this city, or state law, and purporting to conform to the lawful requirements pertaining to such devices shall be presumed to comply with the requirements of the traffic ordinances of this city, or state law, unless the contrary shall be established • by competent evidence. Section 5: AUTHORITY TO DESIGNATE CROSSWALKS The Mayor, or his designee, be and hereby is authorized to designate and maintain by appropriate devices, marks, or lines upon the surface of the roadway, crosswalks at intersections where in his opinion there is particular danger to pedestrians crossing the roadway and at such other places as he, in the exercise of his discretion, may deem necessary. • . Section 6: AUTHORITY TO ESTABLISH AND DESIGNATE SAFETY ZONES • • (a) The Mayor, or his designee, be and hereby is authorized to establish safety zones of such kind and character and at • such places as he, in the exercise of his discretion, may deem necessary for ,the protection of pedestrians. • • (b) The Mayor, or his designee, • shall designate and maintain appropriate devices, marks or lines, signs, buttons, • standards or otherwise so as to be plainly discernible • or otherwise protect safety zones, 2-