WAC 308-330-265
Traffic engineer -- Authority. The traffic
engineer is authorized:
(1) To place and maintain official traffic control devices
when and as required under the traffic ordinances or resolutions
of the local authority to make effective the provisions of said
ordinances or resolutions, and may place and maintain such
additional official traffic control devices as he/she may deem
necessary to regulate, warn, or guide traffic under the traffic
ordinances or resolutions of the local authority;
(2) To place and maintain official traffic control devices
as he/she may deem necessary to regulate, warn, or guide traffic
for construction, detours, emergencies, and special conditions;
(3) To designate and maintain, by appropriate devices,
marks, or lines upon the surface of the roadway, crosswalks at
intersections where in his/her opinion there is particular danger
to pedestrians crossing the roadway, and in such other places as
he/she may deem necessary;
(4) To establish safety zones of such kind and character and
at such places as he/she may deem necessary for the protection of
pedestrians;
(5) To mark traffic lanes upon the roadway of any highway
where a regular alignment of traffic is necessary;
(6) To regulate the timing of traffic signals so as to
permit the movement of traffic in an orderly and safe manner;
(7) To place official traffic control devices within or
adjacent to intersections indicating the course to be traveled by
vehicles turning at such intersections, in accordance with the
provisions of this chapter, and such course to be traveled as so
indicated may conform to or be other than as prescribed by law;
(8) To determine those intersections at which drivers of
vehicles shall not make a right, left, or U-turn, and shall place
proper signs at such intersections. The making of such turns may
be prohibited between certain hours of any day and permitted at
other hours, in which event the same shall be plainly indicated
on the signs or they may be removed when such turns are
permitted;
(9) To erect and maintain stop signs, yield signs, or other
official traffic control devices to designate arterial highways
or to designate intersection or other roadway junctions at which
vehicular traffic on one or more of the roadways shall yield or
stop and yield before entering the intersection or junction,
except as provided in RCW 46.61.195;
(10) To issue special permits to authorize the backing of a
vehicle to the curb for the purpose of loading or unloading
property subject to the terms and conditions of such permit. Such permits may be issued either to the owner or lessee of real
property alongside the curb or to the owner of the vehicle and
shall grant to such person the privilege as therein stated and
authorized by this section;
(11) To erect signs indicating no parking upon both sides of
a highway when the width of the improved roadway does not exceed
twenty feet, or upon one side of a highway as indicated by such
signs when the width of the improved roadway is between twenty
and twenty-eight feet;
(12) To determine when standing or parking may be permitted
upon the left-hand side of any roadway when the highway includes
two or more separate roadways and traffic is restricted to one
direction upon any such roadway and to erect signs giving notice
thereof;
(13) To determine and designate by proper signs places not
exceeding one hundred feet in length in which the stopping,
standing, or parking of vehicles would create an especially
hazardous condition or would cause unusual delay to traffic;
(14) To determine the location of loading zones, passenger
loading zones, and tow-away zones and shall place and maintain
appropriate signs or curb markings supplemented with the
appropriate words stenciled on the curb indicating the same and
stating the hours during which the provisions of this chapter are
applicable;
(15) To establish bus stops, bus stands, taxicab stands, and
stands for other for hire vehicles on such highways in such
places and in such number as he/she shall determine to be of the
greatest benefit and convenience to the public, and every such
bus stop, bus stand, taxicab stand, or other stand shall be
designated by appropriate signs or by curb markings supplemented
with the appropriate words stenciled on the curb;
(16) To erect and maintain official traffic control devices
on any highway or part thereof to impose gross weight limits on
the basis of an engineering and traffic investigation;
(17) To erect and maintain official traffic control devices
on any highway or part thereof to prohibit the operation of
trucks exceeding ten thousand pounds gross weight on the basis of
an engineering and traffic investigation: Provided, That such
devices shall not prohibit necessary local operation on such
highways for the purpose of making a pickup or delivery;
(18) To erect and maintain official traffic control devices
on any highway or part thereof to impose vehicle size
restrictions on the basis of an engineering and traffic
investigation;
(19) To determine and designate those heavily traveled
highways upon which shall be prohibited any class or kind of
traffic which is found to be incompatible with the normal and
safe movement of traffic on the basis of an engineering and
traffic investigation and shall erect appropriate official
traffic control devices giving notice thereof;
(20) To install parking meters in the established parking
meter zones upon the curb adjacent to each designated parking
space;
(21) To designate the parking space adjacent to each parking
meter for which such meter is to be used by appropriate markings
upon the curb and/or the pavement of the highway;
(22) To post appropriate signs making it unlawful for
pedestrians to cross highways in certain crosswalks when such
crossing would endanger either pedestrian or vehicular traffic
using the highway;
(23) To test new or proposed traffic control devices under
actual conditions of traffic.
[Statutory Authority: RCW 46.90.010. 94-01-082, § 308-330-265,
filed 12/13/93, effective 7/1/94.]