Installation of Traffic Signals
San Diego Municipal Code § 82.03
in effect§82.03 Installation of Traffic Signals
(a) The City Manager is hereby directed to install and maintain official traffic signals at those intersections and other places where traffic conditions are such as to require that the flow of traffic be alternately interrupted and released in order to prevent or relieve traffic congestion or to protect life or property from exceptional hazard.
(b) The City Manager shall ascertain and determine the locations where such signals are required by field investigation, traffic counts and other traffic information as may be pertinent and his determinations therefrom shall be made in accordance with traffic engineering and safety standards.
(c) Whenever the City Manager installs and maintains an Official Traffic Signal at any intersection, he shall likewise erect and maintain at such intersections street name signs except where signs have previously been placed.
(Amended 4–10–1956 by O–6936 N.S.)
Source: City of San Diego Office of the City Clerk, San Diego Municipal Code and City Charter (docs.sandiego.gov PDFs)URL: https://docs.sandiego.gov/municode/MuniCodeChapter08/Ch08Art02Division00.pdf#page=2Fetched: 10/28/2026