§ 70.06. DUTIES OF THE BOARD OF PUBLIC WORKS AND SAFETY.

The Board of Public Works and Safety is authorized to do the following acts relating to traffic control in the city:

(A) Erect and maintain traffic-control signs, signals and devices as required under this code or and/or as warranted under the M.U.T.C.D., and erect and maintain any additional traffic-control devices as it may deem necessary to regulate traffic under this code, under state law, or to guide or warn traffic. All traffic-control signs, signals and devices shall conform with the requirements of the M.U.T.C.D. All signs and signals required for a particular purpose shall, so far as practical, be uniform as to type and location throughout the city. All traffic-control devices so erected and not inconsistent with the provisions of Indiana State law or this code shall be official traffic-control devices.

(B) Determine the course to be followed by vehicles turning at any intersection in the city and place markers, signals or signs within or adjacent to intersections indicating the course to be traveled by vehicles turning at the intersection.

(C) (1) Erect stop or yield signs regulating the movement of traffic in, to and across any intersection when, in the opinion of the Board, the intersection is hazardous, and where the intersection is not otherwise protected by stop, yield or other traffic signal devices.

(2) Stop and/or yield signs shall conform with the requirements of the M.U.T.C.D.

(3) Each stop sign or yield regulation approved by the Board shall be by resolution. The resolution shall describe the street(s) by name and the street(s) governed by the restriction assigned.

(D) (1) Erect appropriate signs giving notice whenever any parking time limit is imposed or parking prohibited on any designated street(s) where the stopping, standing or parking of vehicles could create a hazardous condition or cause unusual delay of traffic. The signs shall be erected on the same side of the street for which the restriction or prohibition is applicable.

(2) All parking signs shall conform with the requirements of the M.U.T.C.D.

(E) Designate, mark and maintain by appropriate devices, marks or lines upon the surface of the roadway pedestrian crosswalks where, in the opinion of the Board, there is particular danger to pedestrians crossing the roadway, and at any other places as the Board may deem necessary.

(F) (1) Mark lanes for traffic on street pavements at places as the Board may deem advisable, consistent with this code.

(2) All traffic land markings shall conform with the requirements of the M.U.T.C.D.

(G) Establish safety zones of a kind and character and at places as are deemed necessary for the protection of pedestrians.

(H) (1) Regulate and establish the speed on all city streets which, by virtue of their relationship to school traffic, both pedestrian and vehicular, warrant regulation for the safety of children coming and going to the schools. The regulation may be by the erection of speed limit signs and school zone warning signs, and/or traffic-control signs or devices such as flashing lights, wherever the Board deems it necessary for the protection of school children.

(2) All signs and/or devices erected under this division (H) shall conform with the requirements of the M.U.T.C.D.

(3) Each school zone regulation approved by the Board shall be by resolution. The resolution shall describe the street(s) by name, the speed restriction assigned and the limits of the restriction.

(I) (1) Regulate and establish the speed on all city streets which, because of circumstances and the relationship to traffic, both pedestrian and vehicular, should have a speed limit other than that established by state statute. The regulation may be by the erection of speed limit signs, warning signs, and/or other traffic-control signs or devices such as flashing lights, whenever the Board deems it necessary for the protection of the traffic.

(2) All signs and/or devices erected under this division (I) shall conform with the requirements of the M.U.T.C.D.

(3) Each speed regulation approved by the Board shall be by resolution. The resolution shall describe the street(s) by name, the speed restriction assigned and the limits of the restriction.

(J) Establish a policy for the installation of street lights and authorize the installation of the street lights at locations deemed to warrant the installation(s).

(K) Maintain official records of Board actions and inventories of all regulatory signs, devices, speed zones, parking restrictions and the like. In the event that data for the inventories are lost or have not been maintained, the Board may make the inventories current by resolution, listing the previously missing data.

(‘89 Code, § 60.09) (Am. Ord. passed 4-8-96 )