§ 606. Traffic-control signal lights.

Wherever vehicular traffic movement is controlled by an official traffic-control signal light device exhibiting green, yellow or red colored lights successively, such device shall control and be obeyed, as herein provided.

A.

Vehicular traffic facing the green signal shall proceed right, left or straight through, unless a sign at such place prohibits any such movements; provided that the right-of-way shall be yielded to other vehicles or pedestrians lawfully in the intersection or signalized location, and a vehicle which enters on a green signal may complete such movement with safety even after the yellow or red signals appear.

B.

Vehicular traffic facing a steady yellow signal is thereby warned that the red "stop" signal shall be exhibited immediately thereafter and such vehicular traffic shall not be crossing the intersection or signalized location when such red signal is successively exhibited.

C.

Vehicular traffic facing a steady red signal shall stop before entering the crosswalk on the near side of the intersection or, if none, then before entering the intersection or signalized location, and shall remain standing until the green signal is shown alone, or, while the signal is still red, vehicular traffic may turn right, or turn left from a one-way street into a one-way street, from the appropriate lane after coming to the required stop, unless such turn on red is prohibited by a official sign. Such vehicular traffic making a turn on red shall yield the right-of-way to pedestrians lawfully within a crosswalk and to other traffic lawfully using the intersection.

D.

Vehicular traffic in a proper lane with a steady green arrow directional signal light or steady red with green arrow signal shall move as indicated by the pointing of the arrow to the left, right or straight ahead, and shall cautiously enter the intersection or signalized location only to make the movement indicated by such arrow but shall yield the right-of-way to pedestrians lawfully within a crosswalk and to other traffic lawfully using the intersection.

E.

Whenever flashing signal lights are exhibited, such signals shall control vehicular traffic and be obeyed, as follows:

1.

Flashing yellow shall indicate the driver of a motor vehicle is to proceed with utmost caution through the intersection or signalized location; and

2.

Flashing red shall indicate that the driver of a motor vehicle shall come to a full stop and then proceed, yielding the right-of-way to all other traffic or pedestrians so close as to constitute an immediate hazard.

F.

Vehicular traffic may turn, pursuant to the provisions of this Section, through a crosswalk while the pedestrian signal shows a "WALK" indication provided such turn may be completed without danger to or interference with pedestrian traffic.

G.

In the event an official traffic control signal is erected and maintained at a place other than an intersection, the provisions of this section shall be applicable except as to those provisions which by their nature can have no application. Any stop required shall be made at a sign or marking on the pavement indicating where the stop shall be made, but in the absence of any such sign or marking the stop shall be made at the signal.

(Ord. No. 13902)