ARTICLE 3. Offenses Relating to Traffic Devices [21450. - 21468.]
Article 3 enacted by Stats. 1959, Ch. 3.
§§ 21450–21468 · 30 sections
- § 21450 Whenever traffic is controlled by official traffic control signals showing different colored lights, color-lighted arrows, or color-lighted bicycle symbols,…
- § 21450.5 (a) As used in this section, the following terms have the following definitions: (1) “Accessible pedestrian signal” or “APS” means an integrated device that…
- § 21451 (a) A driver facing a circular green signal shall proceed straight through or turn right or left or make a U-turn unless a sign prohibits a U-turn. Any driver,…
- § 21452 (a) A driver facing a steady circular yellow or yellow arrow signal is, by that signal, warned that the related green movement is ending or that a red…
- § 21453 (a) A driver facing a steady circular red signal alone shall stop at a marked limit line, but if none, before entering the crosswalk on the near side of the…
- § 21454 When lane use control signals are placed over individual lanes, those signals shall indicate and apply to drivers of vehicles as follows: (a) Green indication:…
- § 21455 If an official traffic control signal is erected and maintained at a place other than an intersection, including a freeway or highway on ramp, this article…
- § 21455.5 (a) The limit line, the intersection, or a place designated in Section 21455, where a driver is required to stop, may be equipped with an automated traffic…
- § 21455.6 (a) A city council or county board of supervisors shall conduct a public hearing on the proposed use of an automated enforcement system authorized under…
- § 21455.7 (a) At an intersection at which there is an automated traffic enforcement system in operation pursuant to Section 21455.5 or 21455.9, the minimum yellow light…
- § 21455.9 (a) As used in this section, the following definitions apply: (1) “Automated traffic enforcement system” or “system” means a fixed system that utilizes…
- § 21456 (a) If a pedestrian control signal showing the words “WALK” or “WAIT” or “DON’T WALK” or other approved symbol is in place, the signal shall indicate as…
- § 21456.1 Whenever an official traffic control signal exhibiting an approved “Walking Person” symbol, an approved “Upraised Hand” symbol, or the words “WALK” or “WAIT”…
- § 21456.2 (a) Unless otherwise directed by a bicycle signal as provided in Section 21456.3, or as otherwise provided in subdivision (a) of Section 21456, an operator of…
- § 21456.3 (a) An operator of a bicycle facing a green bicycle signal shall proceed straight through or turn right or left or make a U-turn unless a sign prohibits a…
- § 21457 Whenever an illuminated flashing red or yellow light is used in a traffic signal or with a traffic sign, it shall require obedience by drivers as follows: (a)…
- § 21458 (a) Whenever local authorities enact local parking regulations and indicate them by the use of paint upon curbs, the following colors only shall be used, and…
- § 21459 (a) The Department of Transportation in respect to state highways and a local authority with respect to highways under its jurisdiction, is authorized to place…
- § 21460 (a) If double parallel solid yellow lines are in place, a person driving a vehicle shall not drive to the left of the lines, except as permitted in this…
- § 21460.5 (a) The Department of Transportation and local authorities in their respective jurisdictions may designate a two-way left-turn lane on a highway. A two-way…
- § 21461 (a) It is unlawful for a driver of a vehicle to fail to obey a sign or signal defined as regulatory in the federal Manual on Uniform Traffic Control Devices,…
- § 21461.5 (a) It shall be unlawful for any pedestrian to fail to obey any sign or signal erected or maintained to indicate or carry out the provisions of this code or…
- § 21462 (a) The driver of a vehicle, the person in charge of an animal, a pedestrian, and the motorist of a streetcar shall obey the instructions of an official…
- § 21463 No person shall operate a manually or traffic actuated signal other than for the purpose of permitting a pedestrian or vehicle to cross a roadway.
- § 21464 (a) A person, without lawful authority, may not deface, injure, attach any material or substance to, knock down, or remove, nor may a person shoot at, any…
- § 21465 No person shall place, maintain, or display upon, or in view of, any highway any unofficial sign, signal, device, or marking, or any sign, signal, device, or…
- § 21466 No person shall place or maintain or display upon or in view of any highway any light in such position as to prevent the driver of a vehicle from readily…
- § 21466.5 No person shall place or maintain or display, upon or in view of any highway, any light of any color of such brilliance as to impair the vision of drivers upon…
- § 21467 Every prohibited sign, signal, device, or light is a public nuisance, and the Department of Transportation, members of the California Highway Patrol, and local…
- § 21468 This division does not modify or limit the authority of the Public Utilities Commission to erect or maintain, or cause to be erected and maintained, signs,…