§ 27-71. Authority of Chief of Police.

(a)

The Chief of Police is hereby authorized and directed to:

(1)

Make, promulgate and enforce rules and regulations to prohibit other than one-way vehicular traffic upon highways;

(2)

Regulate the use of highways by processions or assemblages;

(3)

Require all vehicles to come to a full stop at any highway intersection; and

(4)

Repeal, amend or modify any rule or regulation made and promulgated under this chapter.

(b)

The Chief is further authorized to erect and maintain such appropriate signs, markers, semaphores, signals or other devices as may be deemed necessary to enforce the rules and regulations made and promulgated to regulate and control vehicular traffic and travel upon highways by pedestrians and to execute the sections of this chapter. The Chief shall also have the authority to designate private driveways as either "entrances" or "exits." When the property owner or lessee is notified in writing of such designation, such owner or lessee shall install appropriate signs in accordance with specifications drawn by the City Traffic Engineer, and the drivers of all vehicles using such highways shall obey such signs.

(c)

Unless otherwise provided, any person violating any rule or regulation made and promulgated by the Chief to regulate and control vehicular traffic shall be punished in accordance with Section 27-41, and any person violating any rule or regulation made and promulgated by the Chief to regulate and control travel upon highways by pedestrians shall be punished upon conviction by a fine not exceeding that provided for a traffic violation, each such violation constituting a separate offense. However, no such rule or regulation shall be deemed to be violated if, at the time of the alleged violation, the designation, signal, semaphore, sign or other device placed in conformity with this section was missing, out of order, effaced, mutilated or defaced, so that an ordinarily observant person, under the named circumstances, would not be apprised of or aware of the existence of such rule or regulation.

(Code 1993, § 28-71; Code 2004, § 102-81)

State Law reference— Regulation of pedestrians by signs, etc., Code of Virginia, § 46.2-935.

(Code 1993, § 28-71; Code 2004, § 102-81)

State law reference

Regulation of pedestrians by signs, etc., Code of Virginia, § 46.2-935.