A. The City Traffic Engineer is hereby directed to install and maintain official traffic signals at those intersections and other places where traffic conditions are such as to require that the flow of traffic be alternately interrupted and released in order to prevent or relieve traffic congestion or such as to require that the flow of traffic be alternately interrupted and released in order to protect life or property from exceptional hazard.

B. The City Traffic Engineer shall ascertain and determine the locations where such signals are required by field investigation, traffic counts and other traffic information as may be pertinent and their determinations therefrom shall be made in accordance with those traffic engineering and safety standards and instructions set forth in the latest issue of the California Manual on Uniform Traffic Control Devices issued by the State of California Department of Transportation.

C. Whenever the City Traffic Engineer installs and maintains an official traffic signal at any intersection, they shall likewise erect and maintain at such intersection street name signs clearly visible to traffic approaching from all directions unless such street name signs have previously been placed and are maintained at any said intersection. (Ord. 1069 § 14, 2023; Ord. 1062 § 14, 2022; Ord. 1030 § 2(8), 2018; Ord. 526 § 1 (part), 1975)