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Chapter 2.29 - TRAFFIC ENGINEER

Sections:

2.29.010 - Office of traffic engineer established.

2.29.020 - Appointment.

2.29.030 - Powers and duties of county traffic engineer.

2.29.040 - Placement and maintenance of traffic control devices.

2.29.050 - Authority to prohibit parking at certain locations.


2.29.010 - Office of traffic engineer established.

The county hereby creates and establishes the office of traffic engineer.

(Ord. 547 § 1(part), 1992).

2.29.020 - Appointment.

The county road commissioner shall exercise the powers and duties of the traffic engineer.

(Ord. 547 § 1(part), 1992).

2.29.030 - Powers and duties of county traffic engineer.

It shall be the duty of the county traffic engineer to determine the installation, operation and maintenance of traffic control devices; conduct engineering analyses of traffic accidents; devise remedial measures; and conduct engineering and traffic investigation of traffic conditions. The engineer shall also cooperate with the county sheriff, the California Highway Patrol and other state and county officers in the development of ways and means to improve traffic conditions, and to carry out the additional powers and duties imposed by ordinances of this county.

(Ord. 547 § 1(part), 1992).

2.29.040 - Placement and maintenance of traffic control devices.

The county traffic engineer shall place and maintain, or cause to be placed and maintained, official traffic control devices upon roads, streets, and highways as required under the Vehicle Code or county traffic ordinances to make effective the provisions of the Code or ordinances. Additionally, the county traffic engineer shall make, place and maintain, or cause to be placed and maintained, such appropriate official traffic control devices as the engineer may deem necessary to properly indicate and carry out the provisions of the Vehicle Code or the ordinances or to warn or guide traffic.

(Ord. 547 § 1(part), 1992).

2.29.050 - Authority to prohibit parking at certain locations.

Pursuant to Vehicle Code Section 21458, the traffic engineer shall prohibit parking of any vehicle at the following locations and shall cause such locations to be marked by painting the curb red and/or by the placing of other signs or markings at or adjacent to such location and thereafter it shall be unlawful for any person to park or cause to be parked any vehicle in said location.

A.   Lake View Drive adjacent to the pedestrian's walkway that runs between Lot 32 and Lot 33 of the Lake Shore Park Subdivision recorded in Volume 9, Page 135 of Maps, Madera County Records.
B.   South side of Avenue 13 opposite Madera Adult Education/Furman High School Campus approximately eight hundred feet long.
C.   Both sides of Avenue 16 ½ beginning approximately three hundred feet west of Paula Road and ending approximately two hundred feet east of Karen Road.
D.   On the south side of Avenue 17 from three hundred feet west of Daley Road to the west side of Crystal Drive and on the north side of Avenue 17 from the west side of Road 26 to one hundred fifty feet west of Daley Road.
E.   Both sides of Old Stone Gate Court beginning at the west right-of-way line of Big Oak Flat Road South and ending approximately 691.24 feet northwesterly of the west right-of-way line of Big Oak Flat Road South.
F.   On the east and west side of Road 29 beginning approximately one thousand five hundred feet north of Avenue 12 and ending approximately two thousand four hundred feet north of Avenue 12.
G.   Both sides of Avenue 18 ½ from Road 23 to Golden State Boulevard; approximately one thousand one hundred feet.
H.   Both sides of Road 417 from two-tenths of a mile east of State Route 41 to nine-tenths of a mile east of State Route 41.
I.   Both sides of Avenue 12 from three hundred feet west of Road 30 to one-tenth of a mile west of Road 30 ½.

(Ord. 547H § 1, 2004; Ord. 547G § 1, 2003; Ord. 547F § 1, 2002; Ord. 547E § 1, 2001; Ord. 547D § 1, 2000; Ord. 547C § 1, 1998; Ord. 547B § 1, 1998; Ord. 547A § 1, 1997).