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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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