El Paso City Code § 12.60.010 Designated.
12.60.010 - Designated.
Those streets and parts of streets described in Schedule II, Section 12.88.020, are declared to be through streets for the purpose of this section.
(Prior code § 20-59)
THROUGH STREETS, STOP AND YIELD INTERSECTIONS
El Paso City Code tit. 12, ch. 12.60
in effectEl Paso City Code § 12.60.020 Authority to designate stop intersections.
12.60.020 - Authority to designate stop intersections.
The traffic engineer is authorized to determine and designate intersections where particular hazard exists upon other than through streets and to determine whether vehicles shall stop at one or more entrances to any such stop intersection, and shall erect a stop sign at every such place where a stop is required.
(Prior code § 20-61)
El Paso City Code § 12.60.030 Stop signs—Authority to erect.
12.60.030 - Stop signs—Authority to erect.
Whenever any ordinance of this city designates and describes a through street it shall be the duty of the traffic engineer to place and maintain a stop sign on each and every street intersecting such through street or intersecting that portion thereof described and designated as such by any ordinance of this city unless traffic at any such intersection is controlled at all times by traffic-control signals; provided, however, at the intersection of two such through streets or at the intersection of a through street and a heavy traffic street not so designated, stop signs shall be erected at the approaches of either of the streets as may be determined by the traffic engineer upon the basis of an engineering and traffic study.
(Prior code § 20-60)
El Paso City Code § 12.60.040 Word "stop" to be on signs.
12.60.040 - Word "stop" to be on signs.
Every sign erected pursuant to this chapter and Chapters 12.44, 12.48, 12.52 and 12.56 shall bear the word "Stop" in letters not less than eight inches in height and such sign shall at nighttime be rendered luminous by steady or flashing internal illumination, or by a fixed floodlight projected on the face of the sign, or by efficient reflecting elements on the face of the sign. Every stop sign shall be located as near as practicable at the nearest line of the crosswalk on the near side of the intersection or, if none, at the nearest line of the roadway. However, nothing in this section shall be construed as to invalidate any existing stop sign heretofore erected on the public streets of the city, which are by this action hereby adopted as official stop signs.
(Prior code § 20-62)
El Paso City Code § 12.60.050 Stop signs—required.
12.60.050 - Stop signs—required.
When stop signs are erected as herein authorized at or near the entrance to any intersection, every driver of a vehicle and every motorman of a streetcar approaching a stop sign shall stop before entering the crosswalk on the near side of the intersection or in the event there is no crosswalk shall stop at a clearly marked stop line, but if none, then at the point nearest the intersecting roadway where the driver has a view of approaching traffic on the intersecting roadway before entering the intersection except when directed to proceed by a police officer or traffic-control signal.
(Prior code § 20-63)
El Paso City Code § 12.60.060 Emerging from alley, driveway or building.
12.60.060 - Emerging from alley, driveway or building.
The driver of a vehicle emerging from an alley, driveway or building shall stop such vehicle immediately prior to driving onto a sidewalk or onto the sidewalk area extending across any alleyway, yielding the right-of-way to any pedestrian as may be necessary to avoid collision, and upon entering the roadway shall yield the right-of-way to all vehicles approaching on the roadway.
(Prior code § 20-64)
El Paso City Code § 12.60.070 Stopping when traffic obstructed.
12.60.070 - Stopping when traffic obstructed.
No driver shall enter an intersection or a marked crosswalk unless there is sufficient space on the other side of the intersection or crosswalk to accommodate the vehicle he is operating without obstructing the passage of other vehicles or pedestrians, notwithstanding any traffic-control signal indication to proceed.
(Prior code § 20-65)
El Paso City Code § 12.60.080 Yield right-of-way signs.
12.60.080 - Yield right-of-way signs.
A. The traffic engineer is authorized to erect "yield" signs at intersections where he finds that traffic conditions justify requiring drivers to yield the right-of-way to traffic on the intersecting street, but do not require a traffic light or stop sign.
B. Every such sign shall bear the word "Yield," either alone or with additional words indicating what traffic is to be yielded to, and shall be illuminated or reflectorized.
C. When yield signs are erected as herein provided at or near the entrance to any intersection, every driver of a vehicle upon approaching such sign shall yield the right-of-way to all vehicles approaching from the right or left on the intersecting street which are so close as to constitute an immediate hazard.
D. If a driver is involved in a collision at an intersection or interferes with the movement of other vehicles after driving past a yield sign, such collision or interference shall be deemed prima facie evidence of such driver's failure to yield the right-of-way.
(Prior code § 20-67)
El Paso City Code § 12.60.090 Railroad crossing signals—Obedience to required.
12.60.090 - Railroad crossing signals—Obedience to required.
A. Whenever any person driving a vehicle approaches a railroad grade crossing under any of the circumstances stated in this section, the driver of such vehicle shall stop within fifty feet but not less than fifteen feet from the nearest rail of such railroad, and shall not proceed until he can do so safely.
The foregoing requirements shall apply when:
1. A clearly visible electric or mechanical signal device gives warning of the immediate approach of a railroad train;
2. A crossing gate is lowered or when a flagman gives or continues to give a signal of the approach or passage of a railroad train;
3. A railroad train approaching within approximately fifteen hundred feet of the highway crossing emits a signal audible from such distance and such railroad train, by reason of its speed or nearness to such crossing, is an immediate hazard;
4. An approaching railroad train is plainly visible and is in hazardous proximity to such crossing.
B. No person shall drive any vehicle through, around or under any crossing gate or barrier at a railroad grade crossing while such gate or barrier is closed or is being opened or closed.
(Prior code § 20-66)
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