§ 31-5-109 — General powers of local authorities

Wyoming § 31-5-109

• Jurisdiction: Wyoming
• Title 31: Motor Vehicles
• Ch. 5: REGULATION OF TRAFFIC ON HIGHWAYS
• Art. 1: IN GENERAL

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(a) This act does not prevent local authorities with
respect to streets and highways under their jurisdiction and
within the reasonable exercise of the police power from:
(i) Regulating or prohibiting stopping, standing or
parking;
(ii) Regulating traffic by means of police officers,
authorized flagmen or official traffic-control signals;
(iii) Regulating or prohibiting processions or
assemblages on the highways;
(iv) Designating particular highways or roadways for
use by traffic moving in one (1) direction as authorized by W.S.
31-5-208;
(v) Repealed By Laws 2002, Ch. 68, § 2.
(vi) Designating any highway as a through highway or
designating any intersection or junction of roadways as a stop
or yield intersection or junction;
(vii) Regulating the operation of bicycles and
electric bicycles and requiring the registration and licensing
of bicycles and electric bicycles, including the requirement of
a registration fee;
(viii) Regulating or prohibiting the turning of
vehicles or specified types of vehicles;
(ix) Altering or establishing speed limits as
authorized by this act;
(x) Requiring written accident reports as authorized
by W.S. 31-5-1106;
(xi) Designating no-passing zones as authorized in
W.S. 31-5-207;
(xii) Prohibiting or regulating the use of
controlled-access roadways by any class or kind of traffic as
authorized in W.S. 31-5-213;
(xiii) Prohibiting or regulating the use of heavily
traveled streets by any class or kind of traffic found to be
incompatible with the normal and safe movement of traffic;
(xiv) Establishing minimum speed limits as authorized
by W.S. 31-5-304(b);
(xv) Designating and regulating traffic on play
streets;
(xvi) Regulating persons propelling push carts;
(xvii) Regulating persons upon skates, coasters,
sleds, motorized skateboards and other toy vehicles;
(xviii) Adopting and enforcing such temporary or
experimental regulations as may be necessary to cover
emergencies or special conditions;
(xix) Prohibiting drivers of ambulances from
exceeding maximum speed limits;
(xx) Adopting such other traffic regulations as are
specifically authorized by this act.
(b) No local authority shall erect or maintain any
official traffic-control device at any location so as to require
the traffic on any state highway to stop before entering or
crossing any intersecting highway unless approval in writing has
first been obtained from the highway department.
(c) No ordinance or regulation enacted under paragraphs
(a)(iv), (v), (vi), (viii), (ix), (x), (xiii) or (xv) of this
section is effective until official traffic-control devices
giving notice of the local traffic regulations are erected upon
or at the entrances to the highway or part thereof affected as
may be most appropriate.