CHAPTER 2. Traffic Signs, Signals, and Markings [21350. - 21468.]

Chapter 2 enacted by Stats. 1959, Ch. 3.

§§ 21350–21468 · 63 sections

1. ARTICLE 1. Erection and Maintenance §§ 21350–21376 · 31 sections

   • § 21350 The Department of Transportation shall place and maintain, or cause to be placed and maintained, with respect to highways under its jurisdiction, appropriate…
   • § 21351 Local authorities in their respective jurisdictions shall place and maintain or cause to be placed and maintained such traffic signs, signals and other traffic…
   • § 21351.3 Local authorities in their respective jurisdictions may place and maintain, or cause to be placed and maintained, speed limit, speed advisory, and mileage…
   • § 21351.5 The Department of Transportation or local authorities, with respect to highways under their respective jurisdictions, may erect stop signs to require the…
   • § 21351.7 Local authorities in their respective jurisdictions may place and maintain, or cause to be placed and maintained, appropriate signs along city streets or…
   • § 21352 The Department of Transportation may erect stop signs at any entrance to any state highway and whenever the department determines that it is necessary for the…
   • § 21353 No local authority, except by permission of the Department of Transportation, shall erect or maintain any stop sign or traffic control signal in such manner as…
   • § 21354 Subject to the provisions of Section 21353, a local authority may designate any highway under its jurisdiction as a through highway and may erect stop signs at…
   • § 21355 (a) Stop signs erected under Section 21350, 21351, 21352, or 21354 may be erected either at or near the entrance to an intersection. The Department of…
   • § 21356 The Department of Transportation or local authorities, with respect to highways under their respective jurisdictions, may erect yield right-of-way signs at the…
   • § 21356.5 Local authorities may place signs, mirrors, or other visual or audible devices at exits from alleys that are under their jurisdiction to warn drivers to watch…
   • § 21357 Speed restriction signs may, but need not, be erected upon any highway other than a state highway at the entrance thereof into a business or residence district…
   • § 21358 Where one or more business and residence districts are contiguous, or where, as authorized by this code, speed is to be restricted between two districts,…
   • § 21359 Whenever the Department of Transportation or a local authority as authorized by this code determines and declares a speed limit different from the limit…
   • § 21360 Local authorities in their respective jurisdictions may, within the reasonable exercise of their police power and subject to Section 21353, place and maintain…
   • § 21361 (a) When the outermost boundaries of two or more intersections are confined within a distance of 200 feet, the Department of Transportation in respect to state…
   • § 21362 Railroad warning approach signs shall be erected by local authorities upon the right-hand side of each approach of every highway under their jurisdiction to a…
   • § 21362.5 (a) (1) Railroad and rail transit grade crossings may be equipped with an automated rail crossing enforcement system if the system is identified by signs…
   • § 21363 Detour signs shall be erected at the nearest points of detour from that portion of a highway, or from any bridge, which is closed to traffic while under…
   • § 21364 The Department of Transportation may authorize an owner of land adjacent to a state highway to erect and maintain signs to indicate the existence of those…
   • § 21365 The Department of Transportation, with respect to state highways in open range country, and the board of supervisors of each county, with respect to county…
   • § 21366 At each signal-controlled intersection on streets and highways, there shall be a street name sign clearly visible to traffic approaching from all directions.…
   • § 21367 (a) As provided in Section 125 of the Streets and Highways Code and in Section 21100 of this code, respectively, the duly authorized representative of the…
   • § 21368 Whenever a marked pedestrian crosswalk has been established in a roadway contiguous to a school building or the grounds thereof, it shall be painted or marked…
   • § 21369 All speed restriction signs in place on January 1, 1960, are hereby ratified and confirmed and shall establish the applicable prima facie speed limit unless…
   • § 21370 The Department of Transportation, or its duly authorized representatives with the approval of the department, while engaged in the construction of a state…
   • § 21372 The Department of Transportation and local authorities shall, with respect to highways under their respective jurisdictions, establish and promulgate warrants…
   • § 21373 The governing board of any school district may request the appropriate city, county, city and county or state agency to install traffic control devices in…
   • § 21374 A local authority may mark or paint the surface of any street or highway under its jurisdiction, or of any state highway, with the approval of the Department…
   • § 21375 (a) The Department of Transportation shall place and maintain, or cause to be placed and maintained, directional signs on freeways indicating the location of…
   • § 21376 The Department of Transportation shall place and maintain on each major state highway entering the state within 500 feet after the state line, a sign that…
2. ARTICLE 2. Official Traffic Control Devices §§ 21400–21401 · 2 sections

   • § 21400 (a) The Department of Transportation shall, after consultation with local agencies and public hearings, adopt rules and regulations prescribing uniform…
   • § 21401 (a) Except as provided in Section 21374, only those official traffic control devices that conform to the uniform standards and specifications promulgated by…
3. ARTICLE 3. Offenses Relating to Traffic Devices §§ 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,…