Engineer to designate crosswalks, establish safety zones, school zones, and mark traffic lanes.
New Orleans City Code § 154-232
in effectSec. 154-232. - Engineer to designate crosswalks, establish safety zones, school zones, and mark traffic lanes.
The city traffic engineer may:
(1) Designate and maintain, by appropriate traffic control devices, crosswalks at intersections where, in their engineering judgment, there is a particular danger to pedestrians crossing the roadway and at such other places engineering studies and engineering judgement deems.
(2) Establish and maintain, by appropriate traffic control devices, safety zones of such kind and character and at such places engineering studies or engineering judgement deems necessary for the protection of pedestrians.
(3) Mark lanes for traffic on street pavements at such places engineering studies or engineering judgement deems necessary.
(4) Designate and maintain, by appropriate traffic control devices, mid-block marked crosswalks and other pedestrian treatments engineering studies or engineering judgement deems necessary.
(5) Designate and maintain, by appropriate traffic control devices, as school zones those streets or portions thereof adjacent to any public or private school, where children of any grades between and inclusive of kindergarten and twelfth attend on a regular basis. The city traffic engineer may designate and maintain, by appropriate traffic control devices, as school crossings those intersections which, although not directly adjacent to such a school, are used regularly by such children as pedestrians on their way to and from school. Additionally, the city traffic engineer may designate and maintain, by appropriate traffic control devices, such other portions of streets or intersections as school zones or school crossings where engineering studies or engineering judgment deems necessary.
(Code 1956, § 38-45; M.C.S., Ord. No. 29440, § 1, 5-11-23)
Source: City of New Orleans, Code of Ordinances and Home Rule Charter (Municode Library, library.municode.com)URL: https://library.municode.com/la/new_orleans/codes/code_of_ordinances?nodeId=PTIICO_CH154TRVE_ARTIVTRCODE_S154-232ENDECRESSAZOSCZOMATRLAFetched: 10/28/2026