ORDINANCE NO. 44
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ORDINANCE NO.: 44
BE IT O;1DAINED BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF Th'E CITY OF SCHERTZ,
TEXAS:
1. That the City Marshal of the City of Schertz, Texas,
and in the event that such office is vacant the senior
policeman of the City of Schertz, Texas, duly appointed as
required by law, shall serve and is herewith designated
City Traffic Control Officer of the City of Schertz, Texas.
2~ The City Traffic Control Officer is authorized to
place markers, buttons or signs wi thin or adj acen t to
intersections indicating the course to be traveled by
vehicles turning at such intersections, and such course
to be traveled as so indicated may conform to or be other
than as prescribed by law or ordinance.
3. W11en authorized markers, buttons, or other
indications are placed wi thin an intersection indicated
the course to be traveled by vehicles turning there at,
no driver or a vehicle shall disobey the directions of such
indications.
4. The City Traffic Control Officer is hereby authorized
to determine those intersections at V'fu ich drivers of
vehicles shall not make a ri3ht, left or U turn, and shall
place proper signs at such intersections. The making of
such turns may be prohibited between certain hours of any
day and permitted at othe r hours, in which event the same
shall be plainly indicated on the signs or they may be
removed when such turns are permitted.
5. Whenever authorized signs are permitted indicating
that no right or left or U turn is permitted, no driver of
a vehicle shall disobey the directions of any such sign.
6. \~enever any ordinance of this City designates any
one way street or alley the City Traffic Control Officer
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shall place and maintain signs giving notice thereof, and
no such regulation shall be effective unless such signs are
in place. Signs indicating the direction of lawful traffic
movement shall be placed at every intersection where
movement of traffic in the opposite direction is prohibited.
7. Whenever any ordinance of this City designates and
describes a through street, it shall be the duty of the City
Traffic Control Officer to place and maintain a stop si~n on
each and every street intersecting such through street or
intersecting that portion thereof described and designates
such by any ordinance of this city.
8. The City Traffic Control Officer is hereby
authorized to determine and designate intersections where
particular hazards exists upon other than through streets and
to determine whether vehicles shall stop or yield the right
of way at one or more entrances to any such stop or yield
right of way intersection and shall erect a stop or yield
right of way sign at every such place where a stop or yield
right of way is required.
9. Every sign erected pursuant to this article shall
bear the word II STO pll or lIYIELD RIGHT OF WAY" as appropriate
in letters not less than six (6) inches in height.
10. Every stop or yield right of way sign shall be
located as near as practicable at the nearest line of the
cross walk on the near side of the intersection, or, if
none, at the nearest line of the roadway.
11. iVhen stop signs are erected as herein provided
at or near the entrance to any intersection, every driver
of a vehicle shall stop the ir vehicle at such sign or at a
clearly marked stop line before entering the intersection,
except when directed to proceed by a police officer or
traffic control signal.
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12. lLf'ter the driver of a vehicle has stopped at
the entrance to a through highway, such driver shall yield
the right of way to other vehicles which have entered the
intersection from said through hibPway or which are
approaching so closely on said through highway as to
constitute an immediate hazard, but said driver having so
yielded may proceed and th3 drivers of all other vehicles
approaching the intersection on said through highway shall
yield the right of way to the vehicle so proceeding into or
across the through highway.
13. After the driver of a vehicle has stopped in
obedience to a stop sign at an intersection where a stop
sign is erected at one or more entrances thereto although
not a part of through highway, such driver shall proceed
cautiously, yielding to vehicles not so obligated to stop
which are within the intersection or approaching so closely
as to constitute an imraediate hazard, but may then proceed.
14. rlhen yield right of way signs are erected as herein
provided at or near the entrance to any intersection, every
driver of a vehicle, when approaching such entrance to such
intersection shall yield the right of way to vehicle not so
obligated to yield such right of way which are within such
intersection or approaching so closely as to constitute an
immediate hazard but may then proceed. Vfuen directed to
proceed by a police officer or traffic control signal, such
vehicle approachins such intersection marked by such sign
shall proceed in accordance with the directions of such
officer or traffic control signal.
15. It shall be unlawful for any person, persons, firm
or corporation to place or cause to be placed, paint or
cause to be painted upon any sidewalk or street within the
corporate limits of the City of SChertz, Texas, any sign,
notice, pole or post, or any other obstruction, and any
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person found guilty of any such unlawful act as herein
above described shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor.
16. That it shall be the duty of the City Marshal
or ooy City Policeman to remove any signs, placard,
obstruction, pole, post, notice bulletin board located
within or upon any street in the City of Schertz, Texas,
unless such pole, post, or obstruction shall have been
authorized by law or ordinance of this city.
17. That it shall be unlawful for any person, firm
or corporation to remove, alter, destroy, mar or impair any
sign for the control of traffic placed on any street or
sidewalk of the City of Schertz, Texas in accordance with
ordinance of this council or by the Ci ty Traffic Control
Officer and any person, firm or corporation found guilty
of any such unlawful act shall be deemed guilty of a
misdemeanor.
18. Any person violating any provision of this
ordinance shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor and
upon conviction shall be fined in any sum not exceeding
Two Hundred and No/IOO ($200.00) Dollars.
This ordinance shall take effect after its passage
and adoption by the City Council and its approval by the
Mayor of the City of Schertz, Texas, and its publication
as required by law.
PASSED AND APPROVED this the ~:J:J> day of February, 1961.
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