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ORDINANCE 204A-. A _g ORDINANCE PTO. 204 AN ORDINANCE OF TiiE C I T OF EL SEGUNDO, CALIFORNIA, REGULATING TRAFFIC UPON THE PUBLIC STREETS, AVENUES, ALLEYS, THOROUGHFARES AND PLACES 1VITP�IN SAID CITY, AND REPEALING ALL ORDINANCES AND PARTS OF ORDINANCES IN CONFLICT THERMITH. The City Council of the City of El Segundo, California, does ordain as follows: ARTICLE I. Definitions. SECTIOY 1. Whenever any words or phrases used herein are not defined herein but are now defined in the Vehicle Code of this state, such definitions are incorporated herein and shall be deemed to apply to such words and phrases used 'herein. SECTION 2. Whenever in this ordinance the follow- inc ; -rords and phrases set forth in this Article are used, they .shall for the purpose of this ordinance have the meanings respectively ascribed to them in this Article. SECTION 3. ALLEY. Any street less than twenty - five (25) feet in width between property lines. SECTION 4. CENTRAL TRAFFIC DISTRICT. That portion of Richmond Street within the City of El Segundo, California. lying; between the northerly line of Franklin Avenue and the southerly line of Grand Avenue. SECTION 5. LOADING ZONE. That space adjacent to a curb reserved for the exclusive use of vehicles during the loading or unloading of passengers or materials. SECTION 6. OFFICIAL TRAFFIC CONTROL DEVICES. All signs, signals, markings, and devices not inconsistent with 1- L- 4 ,Z,, _ -30, SECTION 16. TRAFFIC. Pedestrians, vehicles and street cars either singly or together while using any street for purposes of travel. SECTION 17, TRAFFIC AUTHORITY. The Chief of Police of the City of E1 Segundo, California. ARTICLE II. OBEDIENCE TO TRAFFIC REGULATIONS. SECTION 18, DUTIES OF PO11 CE. (a) It shall be the duty of the officers of the Police Department to enforce the provisions of this ordinance. (b) Officers of the Police Department are hereby authorized to direct all traffic by voice, hand or signal in conformance with traffic laws, provided that, in the event of fire or other emergency, police officers may direct traffic as conditions may require notwithstanding the provisions of the traffic laws. SECTION 19. OBEDIENCE TO POISCE. No person shall wilfully fail or refuse to comply with any lawful order, direction or signal of a police officer. SECTION 20. DIRECTION OF TRAFFIC. No person other than an officer of the Police Department or a person deputized by the Chief of Police shall- direct or attempt to direct traffic by voice, hand or other signal, except that persons may operate, when and as herein provided, any mechanical push button signal erected by order of the legislative body of this city. SECTION 21. PUBLIC EMPLOYEES TO OBEY TRAFFIC REGULATIONS. The provisions of this ordinance shalll apply to the driver of any vehicle owned by or used in the service of the United States Government, this State, any County, City and County or municipal corporation, or other public agency, and it shall be unlawful for any said driver to violate any of the provisions of this ordinance, except 3- - ;_ "168 as otherwise permitted in this ordinance. SECTION 22. EXEMPTIONS TO CERTAIN VEHICLES. (a) The provisions of this ordinance regulating the operation, parking and standing of vehicles shall not apply to any vehicle of the police or fire departments, any public ambulance, or any public utility vehicle, or any private ambulance, which public utility vehicle or private ambulance has qualified as an authorized emergency vehicle when any vehicle mentioned in this section is operated in the manner specified in the Vehicle Code in response to an emergency call. (b) The foregoing exemptions shall not, how- ever, protect the driver of any such vehicle from the consequences of his wilful disregard of the safety of others. (c) The provisions of this ordinance regulating the parking or standing of vehicles shall not apply to any vehicle of a city department or public utility while necessarily in use for construction or repair work, or any vehicle owned by the United States while in use for the collection, transportation or delivery of United States mail. SECTION 23. REPORT OF DAMAGE TO CERTAIN PROPERTY. (a) The driver of a vehicle, or the person in charge of any animal, involved in any accident resulting in damage to any property publicly owned or owned by any public utility, including but riot limited to any fire hydrant, ornamental lighting post, telephone pole, electric light or power pole, ornamental shade tree or other property of a like nature located in or along any street, shall within twenty -four (24) hours after such accident, make a written report of such accident to the Police Department of the city. Ee i i (b) Every such report shall state the time when and the place where the accident took place, the name and address of the person owning and of the person driving or in charge of such vehicle or animal, the license number of every such vehicle, and shalli briefly describe the property damaged in such accident. ARTICLE III. TRAFFIC CONTROL DEVICES SECTION 24. The CHIEF OF POLICE TO ERECT TRAFFIC CONTROL DEVICES. The Chief of Police shall have. the exclusive power and duty to place and maintain or cause to be placed or maintained official traffic control devices when and as required under this ordinance, to make effective the provisions of said ordinance, and may place and maintain such additional traffic control de- vices as he may deem necessary to regulate traffic under this ordinance or under state law, or to guide or warn traffic. SECTION 25. THE CHIEF OF POLICE TO INSTALL TRAFFIC SIGNALS, SAFETY ZONES AND LANES FOR TRAFFIC. The Chief of Police is hereby authorized: 1. To install and maintain official traffic signals at such intersections and other places as he may deem necessary for the re&ulation of traffic. 2. To establish safety zones at such places as he may deem necessary for the protection of pedestrians. 3. To mark lanes for traffic on street pavements at such places as he may deem advisable, consistent with the Vehicle Code and traffic ordinances of this city. SECTION 26, OBEDIENCE TO TRAFFIC CONTROL DEVICES. (a) The driver of any vehicle and the person in charge of any animal, and the motorman of any street car, shall-obey 5- I the instructions of any official traffic control device applicable thereto placed in accordance with this ordinance unless other wise directed by a police officer, subject to the exemptions granted by section 22 of this ordinance. (b) The driver of any vehicle and the person in charge of any animal, and the motorman of any street car, shall obey the instructions of any barrier or sign erected by any of the public departments of this city or public utilities in this city, or by any other person, pursuant to law. SECTION 27. SIGNS RE4UIRED. No provision of this ordinance for which signs or markings are required shall be enforced against an alleged violator if, at the time and place of the alleged violation, an official sign or marking is not in p lace and sufficiently legible and visible to be seen by an ordinarily observant person. SECTION 28, 0FFICIAL TRAFFIC SIGNALS. Whenever traffic is controlled by traffic control signals exhibit- ing the words, "GO ", "CAUTION" or "STOP ", or exhibiting different colored lights successively one at a time, the following colors only shall be used, and said terms and lights shall indicate as follows: (a) G reen alone or "GO ". 1. Vehicular traffic facing the signal shall proceed either straight through or turn right or left unless a sign at such place prohibits either such turn, except that; 2. Vehicular traffic shalt yield the right- of-way to other vehicles and to pedestrians lawfully within the intersection or adjacent crosswalks at the time such signal is exhibited. 3. Pedestrians facing the signal may proceed across the roadway within any marked or unmarked crosswalk. M X72 such street car shall not be permitted to make a right turn when facing a red alone or "STOP" signal, as permitted in subdivision 2 of paragraph (c) of this section. (f) No person shall disobey the directions of this section except when it is necessary to stop for the purpose of avoiding an accident or in case of other emer- gency or when otherwise directed by a police official. SECTION 29 FLASHING SIGNALS. When a yellow lens is illuminated with rapid intermittent flashes, drivers of vehicles may proceed through the intersection of past such signal only with added caution. SECTION 30. PUSH BUTTON SIGNALS. No person shall operate a pedestrian push button signal other than a pedestrian for the purpose of immediately crossing the roadway. ARTICLE IV TURNING MOVEMENTZ SECTION 31. SIGNS PROHIBITITtiG LEFT TURNS. The Chief of Police may erect and maintain signs at any inter- section prohibiting the making of left turns by drivers of vehicles wherever said Chief of Police determines that such left turns would caaa.se traffic congestion or traffic hazard. The making of such left turns may be prohibited between certain hours of any day and permitted at other hours in which event the same shall be plainly indicated on the signs erected by said Chief of Police. SECTION 32. WHEN LEFT TURNS PROHIBITED. When authorized signs are erected giving notice thereof, no vehicle shall be turned to the left in violation of the directions contained on said signs. SECTION 33. TURNING MARKERS. (a) The Chief of Police may place markers, buttons or signs within or m adjacent to intersections, indicating the course to be traveled by vehicles turning at such intersections. (b) When authorized markers, buttons or other indications are placed within an intersection indicating the course to be traveled by vehicles turning thereat, no driver of a vehicle shall disobey the directions of such Indications. SECTION 34. U -TURNS IN CERTAIN DISTRICTS. No vehicle shall be turned at any time at an intersection in the Central Traffic District, or in any business dis- trict in a complete circle or in such manner as to pro- ceed in the opposite direction upon the street upon which said vehicle is traveling at the time of entering said intersection. ARTICLE V. ONE WAY STREETS AND ALLEYS. SECTION 35. THE CHIEF OF POLICE TO SIGN ONE WAY STREETS AND ALLEYS. Whenever any ordinance of this city designates any one way street or alley the Chief of Police shall place and maintain signs giving notice thereof, and no such regulations shall be effective unless such signs are in place. Signs indicating the direction of lawful traffic movement shalT.be placed at every intersection where movement of traffic in the Opp osite direction is prohibited. SECTION 36. ONE WAY STREETS AND ALLEYS. When signs are erected on one way streets or in any alley giving notice thereof, no person shall drive any vehicle in a direction contrary thereto. ARTICLE VI. SPECIAL STOPS REQUIRED. SECTION 37. THE CHIEF OF POLICE TO ERECT STOP SIGNS. Whenever any ordinance or resolution of this city designates EM f4 and describes any street or portion thereof as a through street, or any intersection at which vehicles are required to stop at one or more entrances thereto, the Chief of Police shall erect and maintain stop signs as follows; A stop sign shall be erected on each and every street intersecting such through street or portion there- of so designated and at those entrances of other inter- sections where a stop is required. Every such sign shall be placed at or near the entrance to the highway or intersection where a stop is required and every such sign shall conform to the re- quirements of the Vehicle Code. SECTION 38. STOP AT THROUGH STREET OR STOP INTERSECTION. (a) Those streets and parts of streets described in Section 78 hereof are hereby declared to be through streets for the purpose of this section. (b) The provisions of this section shall also apply at one or more entrances to the intersections, as such entrances and intersections are described in Section 79 hereof. (c) When stop signs are erected as herein provided, at the entrance to any intersection, every driver of a vehicle and every motorman of a street car shall stop at every such sign, before entering the inter- section, except when directed to proceed by a police officer or traffic control signal. SECTION 39, EMERGING FROM ALLEY OR PRIVATE DRIVEWAY. The driver of a vehicle emerging from an alley, driveway or building, shall stop such vehicle immediately prior to driving onto a sidewalk or into the sidewalk area extending across any alley way. 10- 13V5 ARTICLE VII MISCELLANEOUS DRIVING RULES SECTION 40. INTERFERENCE WITH FIRE APPARATUS. (a) No driver of a vehicle shall follow any fire apparatus answering a fire alarm, closer than 500 feet, or park any r vehicle within 500 feet of a fire, or operate or park any vehicle in such manner as to interfere with any fire apparatus or line of fire hose when in use at a fire or when in place for use in response to a fire alarm. (b) No street car or vehicle shall be driven over any unprotected hose of.the Fire Department when laid down on any street, private driveway or street car track, to be used at any fire or alarm of fire without the consent of the officials of the Fire Department in command. SECTION 41. DRIVING THROUGH FUNERAL PROCESSIONS. No driver of a vehicle or motorman of a street car shall I drive between the vehicles comprising a funeral 1'ocession while they are in motion and when the vehicles in such procession are conspimouisly so designated. This provision shall not apply at intersections where traffic is controlled by official traffic signals or police officers. SECTION 42. RIDING ON MOTORCYCLES AND BICYCLES. A person operating a motorcycle or bicycle shall, not ride other than upon the permanent and regular seat attached thereto, nor carry any other person upon such motorcycle or bicycle other than upon a firmly attached seat to the rear of the operator, nor shall any person ride upon a motorcycle or bicycle other than as above authorized. SECTION 43. CLINGING TO MOVING VEHICLE. Any person riding upon any bicycle, motorcycle, coaster, roller skates or any toy vehicle, shall not attach the same or himself to any street car or moving vehicle upon any.roadway. 11-- 13"7`6 SECTION 44. VEHICLES SHALL NOT BE DRIVEN ON THE SID3WALK. The driver of a vehicle shall not drive within any sidewalk area or any parkway except at a per- manent or temporary driveway. SECTION 45. NEW PAVEMENT. No person shall ride or drive any animal or any vehicle over or across any newly made pavement or freshly painted marking in any street when a barrier or sign is in place warning persons not to drive over or across such pavement or marking, or when a sign is in place stating that the street or any portion thereof is closed. ARTICLE VIII. RESTRICTED USE OF CERTAIN STREETS. SECTION 46. CERTAIN VEHICLES PROHIBITED IN CENTRAL TRAFFIC DISTRICT. (a) No person shall operate any of the following vehicles in the Central Traffic District between the hours ,of 8:00 A. M. and 6 :00 P. T1. of any day. 1. Any freight vehicle more than eight and one- half (82) feet in width, with load, or any freight vehicle so loaded that any part of its load extends more than twenty (20) feet to the front or rear of said vehicle; 2. Any vehicle carrying building material that has not b een leaded, or is not to be unloaded, at some point within the Central Traffi4 -: District; garbage; 3. Any freight vehicle with a trailer; 4. Any vehicle conveying refuse, rubbish or 5. Any vehicle carrying crude or fuel oil. (b) Provided that the Chief of Police may by written permit authorize the operation of any such vehicle for the purpose of making necessary emergency deliveries to or from points within the Central Traffic District. 12- i 1377 SECTION 47. ADVERTISING VEHICLES. No persozshall operate or drive any vehicle used for advertising purposes or any advertising vehicle equipped with a sound - amplifying or loud - speaking device upon any street or alley at any time within the City of El Segundo without having first obtained a special permit from the City Council of said City so to do. SECTION 48. TRUCK ROUTES. (a) Whenever this ordinance or any other ordinance of this city designates and describes any street or portion thereof as a street, the use of which is permitted by any commercial vehicle or by any vehicle exceeding the maximum gross weight limit of three tons, the Chief of Police is hereby authorized to designate such street or streets by appropriate signs as' "Truck Traffic Routes" for the movement of commercial vehicles exceeding a maximum gross weight limit of three tons. (b) When any such truck traffic route or routes are established and designated by appropriate signs, the operator of any cormercial vehicle or any vehicle exceeding a maximum gross weight limit of three tons shall drive on such route or routes and none other, except when necessary to traverse another street or streets to a destination for the purpose of loading or unloading, but then only by such deviation from the nearest truck route as is reasonably necessary. The provisions of this section shall not apply to passenger busses under the jurisdiction of the Railroad Commission. ART IC LE IX PEDESTRIANS SECTION 49. THE CHIEF OF POLICE TO ESTABLISH CROSMAIALl . (a) 7110 Ch-Lef of Felice shall e_st�: lisY_, de::i gnate and maintain crosswalks at intersections and other places by appropriate devices, marks or lines upon the surface of the roadway as follows: 13- ' this ordinance placed or erected by authority of a public body or official having jurisdiction, for the purp -ose of regulating, warning, or guiding traffic. SECTION 7. OFFICIAL TRAFFIC SIGNALS. Any device, whether manually, electrically, or mechanically operated, by which traffic is alternately directed to stop and to proceed, and which is erected by authority of a public body or official having jurisdiction. SECTION 8. PARKWAY. That portion of a street other than a roadway or a sidewalk. SECTION 9, PASSENGER LOADING ZONE. That space adjacent to a curb reserved for the exclusive use of vehicles during the loading or unloading of passengers. SECTION 10. PEIIESTRIAN. Any person afoot. SECTION li. PERSON. Every natural person, firm, co- partnership, association or corporation. SECTION 12. POLICE OFFICER. Every officer of the police department of this city. SECTION 13. "SHALL" and "MAY ". "Shall" is mandatory and "may" is permissive. SECTION 14. ( a ) STOP -- when required means complete cessation of movement. (b) STOP OR STAND — when prohibited means any stopping of a vehicle except when necessary to avoid con- flict with other traffic or in compliance with the direction of a police officer or official traffic control device. (c) PARK -- The standing of a vehicle, whether occupied or not, other wise than temporarily for the purpose of and while actually engaged in loading or unloading passengers or materials. SECTION 15. STREET CAR. Any device travelling exclusively upon rails. 2- (b) Yellow alone, or with green, or "CAUTION ", when shown following the green or "GO" signal. 1. Vehicular traffic facing the signal shall stop before entering the nearest crosswalk at the intersection, but if such stop cannot be made in safety a vehicle may. be driven cautiously through the intersection. 2. No pedestrian facing such signal shall enter the roadway until green or "GO" is shown alone. (c) Red alone or "STOP ". 1. Vehicular traffic facing the signal shall stop before entering the nearest crosswalk at an intersec- tion or at such other point as may be indicated by a clearly visible line, and shall remain standing until green or "GO" is shown alone, except as provided in the next succeeding paragraph. 2. At any intersection not within the Central Traffic District the driver of a vehicle which is stopped as close as practicable to the right hand curb and at the entrance to the nearest crosswalk may make a right turn but shall yield the right -of -way to pedestrians and other traffic proceeding as directed by the signal at said intersection. 3. No pedestrian facing such signal shall enter the roadway until green or "GO" is shown alone. (d) The ringing of a bell in connection with any official traffic signal shall indicate that a change is taking place or is to take place in said traffic signal, However, all'_ traffic shall be required to obey the direction of the signal itself; the ringing of a bell is to be construed merely as a warning to traffic of a change in signal. (e) The motorman of any street car shall obey all traffic signals as applicable to vehicles except that 7- _�.