§ 9-21-4-2 — Placement and maintenance; department of transportation; local authorities; unnecessary signals; removal

(a) The Indiana department of transportation
shall place and, except as otherwise provided in this section and IC 8-23-2-15, maintain traffic control devices conforming to the state
manual and specifications upon all state highways, including the state
maintained routes through a city or town, as necessary to indicate and
to carry out this article or to regulate, warn, or guide traffic.
(b) A local authority may not place or maintain a traffic control
device upon a highway in the state highway system or the state
maintained routes through a city or town until the authority has
received written permission from the Indiana department of
transportation.
(c) If the department determines, upon the basis of an engineering
and traffic investigation, that any traffic control signal is not necessary
for the safe, convenient, economical, and orderly movement of traffic,
the signal shall be removed by the Indiana department of transportation
and be returned to the authority responsible for the signal's erection. If
the Indiana department of transportation determines, based on an
engineering and traffic investigation, that a traffic control signal now
in place is necessary for the safe, convenient, economical, and orderly
movement of traffic, the signal must remain in place, and the Indiana
department of transportation shall affix a tag or seal to the signal
showing that the signal has been approved by the Indiana department
of transportation.
[Pre-1991 Recodification Citation: 9-4-1-31(a); (b).]

Legislative History

As added by P.L.2-1991, SEC.9. Amended by P.L.217-2014, SEC.46.