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§47-15-102.


§47-15-102.
   
   (a) The provisions of this act shall not be deemed to prevent local
   authorities with respect to streets and highways under their
   jurisdiction and within the reasonable exercise of the police power
   from:
   
   1. Regulating the standing or parking of vehicles;
   
   2. Regulating traffic by means of police officers or traffic-control
   signals;
   
   3. Regulating or prohibiting processions or assemblages on the
   highways;
   
   4. Designating particular highways as one-way highways and requiring
   that all vehicles thereon be moved in one specific direction;
   
   5. Regulating the speed of vehicles in public parks;
   
   6. Designating any highway as a through highway and requiring that all
   vehicles stop before entering or crossing the same or designating any
   intersection as a stop intersection or a yield intersection and
   requiring all vehicles to stop or yield at one or more entrances to
   such intersection;
   
   7. Restricting the use of highways as authorized in Section 14-112 of
   this act;
   
   8. Regulating the operating of bicycles and requiring the registration
   and licensing of same, including the requirement of a registration
   fee;
   
   9. Regulating or prohibiting the turning of vehicles or specified
   types of vehicles at intersections;
   
   10. Altering the speed limits as authorized herein;
   
   11. Adopting such other traffic regulations as are specifically
   authorized by this act.
   
   (b) No local authority shall erect or maintain any stop sign or
   traffic-control signal at any location so as to require the traffic on
   any state or federal highway to stop before entering or crossing any
   intersecting highway unless approval in writing has first been
   obtained from the Department of Highways.
   
   (c) No ordinance or regulation enacted under subdivisions 4., 5., 6.,
   7. or 10. of paragraph (a) of this section shall be effective until
   signs giving notice of such local traffic regulations are posted upon
   or at the entrances to the highway or part thereof affected as may be
   most appropriate.
   

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