§ 36-4. Traffic control devices.

(a)

City manager responsible for placement. The city manager shall place and maintain official traffic control devices as he may deem necessary to regulate, warn or guide traffic under the city traffic ordinances and state law.

(b)

Designation of one-way streets and no parking zones requires council approval. In exercising his authority under this section, the city manager shall not designate any one-way streets, or no parking zones, without express prior approval of the council.

(c)

Presence of traffic control device is indicative of official sanction. Whenever official traffic control devices are placed in position under this section, such devices shall be presumed to have been so placed by the official act or direction of lawful authority, and shall be presumed to comply with the requirements of this section and other applicable laws, unless the contrary shall be established by competent evidence.

(d)

Present traffic control devices declared to be official. All traffic control signs, signals, devices and markings heretofore placed or erected and now in use for the purposes of regulating, warning or guiding traffic or hereby affirmed, ratified and confirmed to be official traffic control devices.

(e)

Emergency declared. The fact that this section authorizing and directing the city manager to place and maintain traffic control devices, as provided herein, creates an emergency which for the immediate preservation of the public peace, health, safety and general welfare, requires that this section take effect from and after its passage without the necessity of a second reading, and it is accordingly so ordained.

(Code 1973, § 19-12; Ord. No. 77-5, §§ 1-5)

State law reference

Traffic signs, signals and markings, V.T.C.A., Transportation Code ch. 544.