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A sticker on the back of this Illinois street sign is intended to deter theft. Street signs can be stolen for use as decorations or to be sold as scrap metal. [1] Although theft often seems arbitrary, signs with unusual or amusing names tend to be stolen more frequently.
11th edition of the MUTCD, published December 2023. In the United States, road signs are, for the most part, standardized by federal regulations, most notably in the Manual on Uniform Traffic Control Devices (MUTCD) and its companion volume the Standard Highway Signs (SHS).
Many of the standard rules of the road involve consistent interpretation of the standard signs and signals, such as what to do when approaching a stop sign, or the driving requirements imposed by a double yellow line on the street or highway. Many federal departments have also adopted their own traffic code for enforcement on their respective ...
Kennewick’s law aims to “minimize the distraction to motorists, bicyclists, and pedestrians from signs” and prohibits signs with unshielded lights or strobe-like lights.
Some states also require rear seat occupants to wear seat belts. In 24 states, the seat belt law is considered to be only a secondary offense, meaning that a police officer can only ticket a person for violating the seat belt law if the driver has already been stopped for another reason. The effectiveness of seat belt laws varies considerably ...
Some of the signs appeared this week in Park Slope, near the Brooklyn-Queens Expressway ramp near 92nd Street in Bay Ridge and at the entrance for the Verrazzano Bridge headed west into Staten ...
Overtaking is prohibited either for all vehicles or for certain kinds of vehicles only (e.g. lorries, motorcycles). In the USA, this is usually phrased as "no passing zone" and indicated by a rectangular, black-on-white sign on the right side of the road that says "DO NOT PASS", and/or by a solid yellow line painted on the roadway marking the left limit of traffic (centerline), and sometimes ...
A regulatory sign is used to indicate or reinforce traffic laws, regulations or requirements which apply either at all times or at specified times or places upon a street or highway, the disregard of which may constitute a violation, or a sign in general that regulates public behavior in places open to the public.