TRAFFIC-CONTROL DEVICES.

Dallas City Code ch. 28, art. V

in effect

Dallas City Code § 28-24 AUTHORITY TO INSTALL.

SEC. 28-24. AUTHORITY TO INSTALL. (a) The traffic engineer shall conduct studies and investigations of the public streets and highways within the city and shall determine those places on public streets and highways where a particular danger or hazard exists to motor vehicle traffic and pedestrian traffic and shall place and maintain traffic control signs, signals, and devices in accordance with these studies and determinations as required under this chapter and other traffic laws. In addition, the city manager, the director of transportation and public works, the chief of police, the chief of fire-rescue, or personnel acting under their authority, and public contractors or their employees performing work pursuant to any federal, state, county, road district, or city contract, may place and maintain barricades, detour signs, or other warning devices at places where danger becomes apparent as a result of hazards caused by the weather or natural phenomena, defects, or obstructions in or near streets, alleys, sidewalks, parkways, parks, or other public places, as a result of building construction or demolition, or where street, alley, or sidewalk construction or repair is underway. (b) The traffic engineer shall conduct studies and investigations of the public streets and highways within the city and, in accordance with these studies, recommend to the city council those places on public streets and highways where permanent traffic diverters should be located. After the city council approves a location, the department of transportation and public works is authorized to install and maintain permanent traffic diverters at the approved location. (Ord. Nos. 14584; 14900; 22026; 23694; 28424; 30239; 30654; 32864)

Dallas City Code § 28-24.1 TRAFFIC BARRICADE MANUAL.

SEC. 28-24.1. TRAFFIC BARRICADE MANUAL. (a) The traffic engineer is authorized to prescribe a traffic barricade manual, conforming to the Texas Manual on Uniform Traffic Control Devices approved by the Texas Transportation Commission, for providing barricades, warning signs, and other traffic control devices that alert the public to hazards caused by construction, repair, pavement excavation or cuts, or other uses requiring closure of any portion of a public street or public right-of-way. (b) A person commits an offense if he fails to comply with any provision of the city’s traffic barricade manual while occupying a public street or public right- of-way for the purpose of construction, repair, pavement excavation or cuts, or other uses requiring closure of any portion of the public street or public right-of-way. (c) It is a defense to prosecution under Subsection (b) that the provision of the city’s traffic barricade manual was superseded by a provision of the Texas Manual on Uniform Traffic Control Devices, and the person was complying with the state provision. (d) A person convicted of an offense under Subsection (b) of this section is punishable by a fine of $500. (Ord. Nos. 15124; 19749; 27294)

Dallas City Code § 28-24.2 FEES FOR PLAN REVIEWS AND FIELD ADJUSTMENTS.

SEC. 28-24.2. FEES FOR PLAN REVIEWS AND FIELD ADJUSTMENTS. Fees for traffic signal plan review, traffic control plan review, traffic signals field adjustments, and street lights plan review. (1) The fee shall be paid to the director when the application is filed. An application will not be processed until the fee has been paid. (2) The director shall deposit fees in the official city depository not later than the next business day following receipt of the fees. (3) No refund of the fee may be made. (4) Fee schedule. Type of Application | Application Fee Traffic signal plan review | $1,000.00 Traffic control plan review | $1,000.00 Traffic signals field adjustments | $1,500.00 Street lights plan review | $500.00 (Ord. 31657)

Dallas City Code § 28-25 AUTHORIZED INSTALLATION PRESUMED.

SEC. 28-25. AUTHORIZED INSTALLATION PRESUMED. In any prosecution for violation of this chapter, the authorized installation of a traffic control device or signal shall be presumed. (Ord. 14584)

Dallas City Code § 28-26 PARKING DESIGNATIONS; AUTHORITY TO INSTALL.

SEC. 28-26. PARKING DESIGNATIONS; AUTHORITY TO INSTALL. (a) The traffic engineer shall conduct studies and investigations of the public streets and highways within the city and shall study: (1) the needs of the public for parking vehicles on public streets; (2) the width and length of public streets where parking is desired; (3) the availability of parking space and frequency of parking on the public streets; and (4) the needs of business and commercial establishments to have regulated parking on the public streets. (b) After making such studies, the traffic engineer shall: (1) designate those areas and times on public streets and highways in the city where parking, stopping, or standing should be allowed, or parking bans should be in effect, and regulate parking, stopping, standing, or parking bans by installing appropriate signs, by installing paid parking payment devices or designating paid parking spaces (when authorized by Division 4, “Paid Parking Payment Devices,” or Article XI, “Stopping, Standing, and Parking Generally,” of this chapter), or by marking curbs, giving notice that parking, stopping, or standing is allowed or parking bans are in effect and for what period of time; (2) determine when parking, stopping, or standing motor vehicles should be prohibited on public streets or highways in the city and regulate such prohibition by installing appropriate signs, by providing individual signs or information on each paid parking payment device so affected, or by marking curbs, giving notice that parking, stopping, or standing, is prohibited; and (3) paint or mark each individual paid parking space. (c) The traffic engineer shall make changes in the parking, stopping, standing, or parking ban regulations from time to time as required by the studies and investigations. The traffic engineer shall also keep accurate records of all parking designations, prohibitions, and sign installations. (d) The traffic engineer is authorized to erect signs prohibiting or restricting parking on one or both sides of any roadway that is on public school property as conditions require to facilitate the flow of traffic. (e) When an official sign, curb marking, or street marking prohibits parking for an interval of two hours or less, the prohibition is in effect between the hours of 7:00 a.m. and 6:00 p.m. of every day except Sundays and meter and parking ban holidays, unless otherwise indicated by the sign or marking. (f) The traffic engineer may, upon application by a person whose property abuts a roadway, install or remove signs prohibiting or restricting parking on one or both sides of the roadway. The application must be made on a form provided by the traffic engineer and accompanied by a nonrefundable application fee of $240. The traffic engineer may approve or deny the application in accordance with departmental policy. If an application for the installation of signs is approved, the applicant must pay a fee of $200 for each sign installed. (Ord. Nos. 14584; 14974; 15194; 19300; 21194; 22762; 30993; 32735; 32863)

Dallas City Code § 28-26.1 BUS LANE DESIGNATIONS; AUTHORITY TO INSTALL; PROHIBITION; EXCEPTION.

SEC. 28-26.1. BUS LANE DESIGNATIONS; AUTHORITY TO INSTALL; PROHIBITION; EXCEPTION. (a) The traffic engineer shall conduct studies and investigations of the public streets and highways within the city and shall study the needs of the public for areas on the public streets for the exclusive use of busses during certain hours of the day, the width and length of areas on public streets where bus lanes are desired and, after making such studies, the traffic engineer shall designate those areas on public streets and highways of the city where areas for the exclusive use of busses are required and should be in effect by means of appropriate signs and street markings giving notice that only busses may use an area of a public street or highway during certain hours of the day. The traffic engineer may change areas designated for the exclusive use of busses from time to time as required by studies and investigations. The traffic engineer shall also keep accurate records of all bus lane designations, sign installations, and street markings. (b) A person commits an offense if he operates a motor vehicle, other than a bus in an area upon a public street or highway within the city designated by a sign and street marking as an area for the exclusive use of busses. (c) It is a defense to prosecution under this section that an operator of a motor vehicle is in an area designated for the exclusive use of busses for the purpose of making a right turn and has entered the area as close as practicable to the place where a right turn was intended to be made. (d) In this section bus means a public or private motor vehicle designated for the transportation of more than 10 passengers. (Ord. Nos. 14584; 14648)

Dallas City Code § 28-27 MANUAL AND SPECIFICATIONS.

SEC. 28-27. MANUAL AND SPECIFICATIONS. All traffic control signs, signals, and devices shall conform to the “Manual and Specifications” approved by the State Highway Commission or resolutions adopted by the city council; shall be uniform, so far as practicable, as to type and location throughout the city; and shall be official traffic control devices so long as such are not inconsistent with provisions of state law or this chapter. (Ord. 14584)

Dallas City Code § 28-27.1 PLACEMENT OF CRIME WATCH SIGNS AND VOLUNTEERS IN PATROL SIGNS.

SEC. 28-27.1. PLACEMENT OF CRIME WATCH SIGNS AND VOLUNTEERS IN PATROL SIGNS. (a) Upon recommendation of the police department, the city traffic engineer is authorized to place crime watch signs and volunteers in patrol (V.I.P.) signs on existing city sign standards that support city traffic control and informational signs when in the traffic engineer’s judgment the sign will not interfere with traffic safety. (b) A person desiring the placement of a crime watch sign or a volunteers in patrol (V.I.P.) sign shall submit an application for placement of the sign to the police department. The application must designate the location requested for placement. If the police department and the traffic engineer determine that the location requested will not interfere with traffic safety, the police department shall notify the applicant to submit a sign to the traffic engineer who shall place the sign as requested; otherwise, the traffic engineer shall assist the applicant in finding an alternate location. (c) For the purpose of this section: (1) CRIME WATCH SIGN means a sign of a standard design approved by the chief of police that: (A) is no larger than 14 inches wide and 20 inches tall; (B) depicts the logo of the National Sheriffs’ Association neighborhood watch sign; and (C) does not contain any other message or any identification of a neighborhood, neighborhood group, or other person or organization on the sign. (2) VOLUNTEERS IN PATROL (V.I.P.) SIGN means a sign of a standard design approved by the chief of police that: (A) is no larger than 14 inches wide and 20 inches tall; (B) states, in white lettering on a blue background, “THIS NEIGHBORHOOD PATROLLED BY VOLUNTEERS IN PATROL”; and (C) does not contain any other message or any identification of a neighborhood, neighborhood group, or other person or organization on the sign. (Ord. Nos. 17167; 17225; 23822)

Dallas City Code § 28-28 TESTING UNDER ACTUAL CONDITIONS OF TRAFFIC.

SEC. 28-28. TESTING UNDER ACTUAL CONDITIONS OF TRAFFIC. The traffic engineer may test all forms of traffic control devices under actual conditions of traffic. (Ord. 14584)

Dallas City Code § 28-29 EXISTING DEVICES AFFIRMED AND RATIFIED.

SEC. 28-29. EXISTING DEVICES AFFIRMED AND RATIFIED. Traffic control signs, signals, devices, and markings previously placed or erected by the police department or department of transportation and public works, or any predecessor department, and now in use for the purpose of regulating, warning, or guiding traffic are affirmed, ratified, and declared to be official traffic control devices, provided that these traffic control devices are not inconsistent with the provisions of state law or this chapter. (Ord. Nos. 14584; 22026; 28424; 30239; 30654; 32864)

Dallas City Code § 28-30 DISPLAY OF UNAUTHORIZED SIGNS, SIGNALS OR MARKINGS.

SEC. 28-30. DISPLAY OF UNAUTHORIZED SIGNS, SIGNALS OR MARKINGS. (a) A person commits an offense if he places, maintains, or displays, upon or in view of a highway, any unauthorized sign, signal, marking, or device which purports to be, is an imitation of, or resembles an official traffic control device or railroad sign or signal, or which attempts to direct the movement of traffic, or which hides from view or interferes with the effectiveness of an official traffic control device or a railroad sign or signal, or which warns or attempts to warn the operator of a vehicle of speed control enforcement being conducted on the highway. (b) A person commits an offense if he places or maintains, upon any highway, an official traffic signal or sign on which commercial advertising is printed. This section shall not prohibit the erection of signs of a type which cannot be mistaken for official signs upon private property adjacent to highways. (Ord. 14584)

Dallas City Code § 28-31 INTERFERENCE WITH DEVICES OR RAILROAD SIGNS OR SIGNALS.

SEC. 28-31. INTERFERENCE WITH DEVICES OR RAILROAD SIGNS OR SIGNALS. A person commits an offense if, without lawful authority, he alters, attempts to alter, defaces, injures, knocks down, or removes any official traffic control device, barricade, detour sign, or warning sign (whether permanent or temporary), or any railroad sign, signal, inscription, shield, or insignia. (Ord. 14584)

Dallas City Code § 28-32 AUTHORITY TO DESIGNATE CROSSWALKS, ESTABLISH SAFETY ZONES AND MARK TRAFFIC LANES.

SEC. 28-32. AUTHORITY TO DESIGNATE CROSSWALKS, ESTABLISH SAFETY ZONES AND MARK TRAFFIC LANES. The traffic engineer shall on the basis of engineering and traffic surveys: (1) designate and maintain, by appropriate devices, marks, or lines upon the surface of the roadway, crosswalks at intersections where surveys indicate there is particular danger to pedestrians crossing the roadway, and at other places where surveys indicate they are necessary; (2) establish safety zones at places where the surveys indicate it is necessary for the protection of pedestrians; (3) mark lanes for traffic on street pavements at places where it is found necessary, consistent with this chapter and other traffic ordinances of the city. (Ord. 14584)

Dallas City Code § 28-33 TRAFFIC ENGINEER TO ERECT SIGNS DESIGNATING PEDESTRIANWAYS.

SEC. 28-33. TRAFFIC ENGINEER TO ERECT SIGNS DESIGNATING PEDESTRIANWAYS. The traffic engineer is authorized to erect signs at each entrance of a pedestrianway constructed over an expressway, designating such pedestrianways as safety crossings for school children, and the signs may state that riding bicycles, motorcycles and motorbikes along or across such pedestrianways is prohibited. (Ord. 14584)

Dallas City Code § 28-34 BICYCLES, ANIMALS, VEHICLES PROHIBITED FROM USING PEDESTRIANWAYS.

SEC. 28-34. BICYCLES, ANIMALS, VEHICLES PROHIBITED FROM USING PEDESTRIANWAYS. A person commits an offense if he rides a bicycle, animal, or vehicle across a pedestrianway constructed over an expressway, designated by the traffic engineer as a pedestrianway for school children or as a pedestrianway under the master plan of the city. (Ord. 14584)

Dallas City Code § 28-34.1 INSTALLATION, REMOVAL, AND REPAIR OF SPEED BUMPS IN ALLEYS; FEES.

SEC. 28-34.1. INSTALLATION, REMOVAL, AND REPAIR OF SPEED BUMPS IN ALLEYS; FEES. (a) The traffic engineer may install or remove speed bumps in an alley if he receives: (1) a written request for the installation or removal signed by all of the resident owners or tenants having frontage along the alley with at least 80 percent of the owners or tenants being in favor of the installation or removal; and (2) payment of the fee calculated under Subsection (d). (b) The requirement of Subsection (a)(1) shall be satisfied if: (1) at least 80 percent of the resident owners or tenants having frontage along the alley are in favor of the installation or removal and have signed the written request; and (2) the remaining resident owners or tenants have been notified of the request either in person or by deposit of a written notice properly addressed and postage prepaid in the United States mail. Notice by mail must be given at least 10 days prior to the installation or removal. (c) The traffic engineer may repair existing speed bumps in an alley if he receives: (1) a written request for the repair from a resident owner or tenant having frontage along the alley; and (2) payment of the fee calculated under Subsection (d). (d) The fee for the installation, removal, or repair of speed bumps shall be an estimate of the actual cost of the work to be performed, as determined by the traffic engineer. (Ord. 17828)

Source: City of Dallas, Dallas City Code and City Charter (American Legal Publishing, codelibrary.amlegal.com)URL: https://codelibrary.amlegal.com/codes/dallas/latest/dallas_tx/0-0-0-146932Fetched: 10/26/2026