§ 42-4-603 — Obedience to official traffic control devices

(1) No driver of a
vehicle shall disobey the instructions of any official traffic control device including
any official hand signal device placed or displayed in accordance with the
provisions of this article unless otherwise directed by a police officer subject to the
exceptions in this article granted the driver of an authorized emergency vehicle.

(2) No provision of this article for which official traffic control devices are
required shall be enforced against an alleged violator if at the time and place of the
alleged violation an official device is not in proper position and sufficiently legible
to be seen by an ordinarily observant person. Whenever a particular section does
not state that official traffic control devices are required, such section shall be
effective even though no devices are erected or in place.

(3) Whenever official traffic control devices are placed in position
approximately conforming to the requirements of this article, such devices shall be
presumed to have been so placed by the official act or direction of lawful authority
unless the contrary is established by competent evidence.

(4) Any official traffic control device placed pursuant to the provisions of this
article and purporting to conform to the lawful requirements pertaining to such
devices shall be presumed to comply with the requirements of this article unless
the contrary is established by competent evidence.

(5) Any person who violates any provision of this section commits a class A
traffic infraction.

Legislative History

Source: L. 94: Entire title amended with relocations, p. 2340, � 1, effective January 1, 1995.