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Approved by City Council on February 5, 2001 AN ORDINANCE to amend and reordain Sections 15-4 (General powers and duties of city manager and traffic engineer as to traffic) and 15-149 (Procedure for parking violations; • payment of fine without trial) of Chapter 15 (MOTOR VEHICLES AND TRAFFIC) of the Code of the City of Charlottesville, 1990, as amended. BE IT ORDAINED by the Council of the City of Charlottesville, Virginia, that: 1. Section 15-4 and Section 15-149 of Chapter 15 of the Code of the City of Charlottesville, 1990, as amended, are hereby amended and re -ordained as follows: Sec. 15-4. General powers and duties of city manager and traffic engineer as to traffic. (a) The city the traffic engineer, subject to direction and approval by the city manager, shall have general supervision and control of the operation and parking of vehicles in the interest of public safety, comfort and convenience, met imeensisten consistent with the provisions of this chapter or and state law. (b) The eity FRanager and t traffic engineer, subiect to direction and approval by the city manager, shall have power to regulate traffic by means of traffic officers or traffic lights or other signaling devices on any portion of the street where traffic is heavy or continuous, or where in their his judgment conditions may require, and may regulate the use of the streets by processions or assemblages. (c) The eity fnenageF and t traffic engineer shall also have the authority may else, when subject to direction and approval by the city manger, to: • (1) Adopt sueh Fegulatmems not in eenfliet with the PFOVOSOeMS ef this ehapteF as they she I PFOvided, that -sueh regulatiems she" met be deerned to be vielated Of, at the tinge of the Fegulatien. Erect and maintain upon the sidewalks and streets of the city such signs, signals and other devices for controlling traffic and for regulation of parking as he may deem necessary. (2) Require all vehicles to come to a full stop or to yield the right-of-way at any street intersection other than vehicles on a street which has been designated as a part of the primary system of state highways. (3) Designate by appropriate signs or markers one-way streets and truck routes. (4) Adopt such additional regulations for controlling traffic and regulating parking as he shall deem necessary, and to repeal, amend or modify any such regulations. No such regulations shall be deemed to be violated if, at the time of an alleged violation, any sign or designation required under the terms of this chapter was missing, effaced, mutilated or defaced so that an ordinarily observant person under the same circumstances. would not be apprised of or aware of the existence of such regulation.