Legal Documents of Newport

Whenever this code or any ordinance of this city designates and describes a through street, it shall be the duty of the traffic engineer to place and maintain a stop sign or, on the basis of an engineering and traffic investigation at any intersection, a yield sign, on each and every street intersecting the through street, unless traffic at the intersection is controlled at all times by traffic-control signals; however, at the intersection of two (2) through streets or at the intersection of a through street and a heavy traffic street not so designated, stop signs shall be erected at the approaches of either of the streets as may be determined by the traffic engineer upon the basis of an engineering and traffic study. (1973 Code, § 11-145)