§ 506-34. Through Highways; Stop Streets.
All state routes and all sections of streets and highways on which are operated motor coaches for carrying passengers for hire along a fixed or regular route are through highways, provided that stop signs shall be erected at all intersections with such through highways by the city manager or person designated by the city manager; provided, however, that where two or more through highways intersect and no traffic control signal is in operation, stop signs shall be erected at one or more entrances thereto by the city manager or person designated by the city manager.
Other streets or highways, or portions thereof, with a continuous length of more than one mile between the limits of such street or highway or portion thereof, at the entrances to which vehicular traffic from the majority of intersecting streets or highways is controlled by "stop" or "yield" signs or traffic control signals are hereby designated as through highways. For the purposes of this section the limits of such street or highway or portion thereof shall be the city limit line, the physical terminus of the street or highway, or any point on such street or highway at which vehicular traffic thereon is required by regulatory signs to stop or yield to traffic on the intersecting street.
The city manager or person designated by the city manager need not erect stop signs at intersections so constructed as to permit traffic to safely enter a through highway without coming to a stop. Signs shall be erected at such intersections indicating that the operator of a vehicle shall yield the right of way to or merge with all traffic proceeding on the through highway.
The city manager or person designated by the city manager may designate additional through highways and shall erect stop signs on all streets and highways intersecting such through highways, or may designate any intersection as a stop intersection and shall erect like signs at one or more entrances to such intersection.
Every said sign shall bear the word "Stop" in letters not less than six inches in height. Every stop sign shall be located as near as practicable at the property line of the highway at the entrance to which the stop must be made, or at the nearest line of the crosswalk thereat, or, if none, at the nearest line of the roadway.
Every operator of a vehicle shall stop at such sign or at a clearly marked stop line before entering an intersection except when directed to proceed by a police officer or a traffic control signal.
(C.O. 506-34; a. Ord. No. 130-1960, eff. May 6, 1960; a. Ord. No. 47-1971, eff. Feb. 10, 1971; reordained as C.M.C. 506-34, eff. Jan. 1, 1972; a. Ord. No. 224-1972, eff. May 24, 1972; a. Ord. No. 418-1978, eff. Nov. 4, 1978)