41-6a-208 - Regulatory powers of local highway authorities -- Traffic-control device affecting state highway -- Necessity of erecting traffic-control devices.
41-6a-208. Regulatory powers of local highway authorities -- Traffic-control deviceaffecting state highway -- Necessity of erecting traffic-control devices.
(1) The provisions of this chapter do not prevent a local highway authority for a highwayunder its jurisdiction and within the reasonable exercise of police power, from:
(a) regulating or prohibiting stopping, standing, or parking;
(b) regulating traffic by means of a peace officer or a traffic-control device;
(c) regulating or prohibiting processions or assemblages on a highway;
(d) designating particular highways or roadways for use by traffic moving in onedirection under Section 41-6a-709;
(e) establishing speed limits for vehicles in public parks, which supersede Section41-6a-603 regarding speed limits;
(f) designating any highway as a through highway or designating any intersection orjunction of roadways as a stop or yield intersection or junction;
(g) restricting the use of a highway under Section 72-7-408;
(h) regulating the operation of a bicycle and requiring the registration and inspection ofbicycles, including requiring a registration fee;
(i) regulating or prohibiting:
(i) certain turn movements of a vehicle; or
(ii) specified types of vehicles;
(j) altering or establishing speed limits under Section 41-6a-603;
(k) requiring written accident reports under Section 41-6a-403;
(l) designating no-passing zones under Section 41-6a-708;
(m) prohibiting or regulating the use of controlled-access highways by any class or kindof traffic under Section 41-6a-715;
(n) prohibiting or regulating the use of heavily traveled streets by any class or kind oftraffic found to be incompatible with the normal and safe movement of traffic;
(o) establishing minimum speed limits under Subsection 41-6a-605(3);
(p) prohibiting pedestrians from crossing a highway in a business district or anydesignated highway except in a crosswalk under Section 41-6a-1001;
(q) restricting pedestrian crossings at unmarked crosswalks under Section 41-6a-1010;
(r) regulating persons upon skates, coasters, sleds, skateboards, and other toy vehicles;
(s) adopting and enforcing temporary or experimental ordinances as necessary to coveremergencies or special conditions;
(t) prohibiting drivers of ambulances from exceeding maximum speed limits; or
(u) adopting other traffic ordinances as specifically authorized by this chapter.
(2) A local highway authority may not:
(a) in accordance with Title 72, Chapter 3, Part 1, Highways in General, erect or maintainany official traffic-control device at any location which regulates the traffic on a highway notunder the local highway authority's jurisdiction, unless written approval is obtained from thehighway authority having jurisdiction over the highway; or
(b) prohibit or restrict the use of a cellular phone by the operator or passenger of a motorvehicle.
(3) An ordinance enacted under Subsection (1)(d), (e), (f), (g), (i), (j), (l), (m), (n), or (q)is not effective until official traffic-control devices giving notice of the local traffic ordinancesare erected upon or at the entrances to the highway or part of it affected as is appropriate.
Amended by Chapter 337, 2006 General Session