§ 32-198. General powers, duties of traffic engineer.

(a)

The City Council of the City of Waxahachie shall by ordinance direct that the city traffic engineer shall have the duty of erecting or installing upon, over, along or beside any highway, street or alley signs, signals and markings, or cause the same to be erected, installed or placed in accordance with this chapter and consistent with the manual. Said traffic-control devices shall be installed immediately, or as soon as such specific device, sign or signal can be procured.

(b)

Whenever the city traffic engineer has erected and installed any official traffic-control device, signal or sign at any location in the City of Waxahachie, or has caused the same to be done under his direction, in obedience to this chapter, the manual, or another ordinance directing the erection of such device, signal or sign he shall thereafter file a report with the city secretary in writing and signed officially by the city traffic engineer, stating the type of traffic-control device, sign or signal, and when and where the same was erected or installed. The city secretary shall file and maintain such report of the city traffic engineer among the official papers of the office of the city secretary.

(c)

It being unlawful for any person other than the city traffic engineer, acting pursuant to an ordinance of the city, to install or cause to be installed any signal, sign or device purporting to direct the use of the streets or the activities on those streets of pedestrians, vehicles, motor vehicles, or animals, proof, in any prosecution for a violation of this chapter or any traffic ordinance of the City of Waxahachie, that any traffic-control device, sign, signal or marking was actually in place on any street shall constitute prima facie evidence that the same was installed by the city traffic engineer pursuant to the authority of this chapter and of any ordinance directing the installation of such device, signal or marking.

(Ord. No. 1317, §§ 5, 6, 4-6-81)

Editor's note

Ord. No. 1317, §§ 5, 6, adopted April 6, 1981, being nonamendatory of the Code, has been codified as being amendatory of § 32-198 at the discretion of the editor.