Section 10.16.030 Official traffic-control devices

Section 10.16.030 Official traffic-control devices - Presumption of legality.

1. Whenever official traffic-control devices are placed in position approximately conforming to the requirements of this title, such devices shall be presumed to have been so placed by the official act or direction of lawful authority, unless the contrary shall be established by competent evidence.

2. Whenever official traffic-control devices are placed in position approximately conforming to requirements of this title such devices shall be presumed to be in full force and effect at all times unless the hours during which the device is in effect are so stated on the device.

3. Any official traffic-control device placed pursuant to the provisions of this title and purporting to conform to the lawful requirements pertaining to such devices shall be presumed to comply with the requirements of this title, unless the contrary shall be established by competent evidence.

Every such prohibited sign, signal or marking is hereby declared to be a public nuisance and the city manager is hereby empowered to remove the same or cause it to be removed without notice.

This shall not be deemed to prohibit the erection, upon private property adjacent to highways, of signs giving useful directional information and of a type that cannot be mistaken for official signs. (Ord. 85/T-3504)