California Vehicle Code ARTICLE 3 - Offenses Relating to Traffic Devices

• Section 21450.
   Whenever traffic is controlled by official traffic control signals showing different colored lights, color-lighted arrows, or color-lighted bicycle symbols, successively, one at a time, or...
• Section 21450.5.
  (a) A traffic-actuated signal is an official traffic control signal, as specified in Section 445, that displays one or more of its indications in response to...
• Section 21451.
  (a) A driver facing a circular green signal shall proceed straight through or turn right or left or make a U-turn unless a sign prohibits a...
• Section 21452.
  (a) A driver facing a steady circular yellow or yellow arrow signal is, by that signal, warned that the related green movement is ending or that...
• Section 21453.
  (a) A driver facing a steady circular red signal alone shall stop at a marked limit line, but if none, before entering the crosswalk on the...
• Section 21454.
  When lane use control signals are placed over individual lanes, those signals shall indicate and apply to drivers of vehicles as follows:(a) Green indication: A driver...
• Section 21455.
  If an official traffic control signal is erected and maintained at a place other than an intersection, including a freeway or highway on ramp, this...
• Section 21455.5.
  (a) The limit line, the intersection, or a place designated in Section 21455, where a driver is required to stop, may be equipped with an automated...
• Section 21455.6.
  (a) A city council or county board of supervisors shall conduct a public hearing on the proposed use of an automated enforcement system authorized under Section...
• Section 21455.7.
  (a) At an intersection at which there is an automated enforcement system in operation, the minimum yellow light change interval shall be established in accordance with...
• Section 21456.
  If a pedestrian control signal showing the words “WALK” or “WAIT” or “DON’T WALK” or other approved symbol is in place, the signal shall indicate...
• Section 21456.1.
  Whenever an official traffic control signal exhibiting an approved “Walking Person” symbol, an approved “Upraised Hand” symbol, or the words “WALK” or “WAIT” or “DON'T...
• Section 21456.2.
  (a) Unless otherwise directed by a bicycle signal as provided in Section 21456.3, an operator of a bicycle shall obey the provisions of this article applicable...
• Section 21456.3.
  (a) An operator of a bicycle facing a green bicycle signal shall proceed straight through or turn right or left or make a U-turn unless a...
• Section 21457.
  Whenever an illuminated flashing red or yellow light is used in a traffic signal or with a traffic sign, it shall require obedience by drivers...
• Section 21458.
  (a) Whenever local authorities enact local parking regulations and indicate them by the use of paint upon curbs, the following colors only shall be used, and...
• Section 21459.
  (a) The Department of Transportation in respect to state highways and a local authority with respect to highways under its jurisdiction, is authorized to place and...
• Section 21460.
  (a) If double parallel solid yellow lines are in place, a person driving a vehicle shall not drive to the left of the lines, except as...
• Section 21460.5.
  (a) The Department of Transportation and local authorities in their respective jurisdictions may designate a two-way left-turn lane on a highway. A two-way left-turn lane is...
• Section 21461.
  (a) It is unlawful for a driver of a vehicle to fail to obey a sign or signal defined as regulatory in the federal Manual on...
• Section 21461.5.
  It shall be unlawful for any pedestrian to fail to obey any sign or signal erected or maintained to indicate or carry out the provisions...
• Section 21462.
  The driver of any vehicle, the person in charge of any animal, any pedestrian, and the motorman of any streetcar shall obey the instructions of...
• Section 21463.
  No person shall operate a manually or traffic actuated signal other than for the purpose of permitting a pedestrian or vehicle to cross a roadway.(Enacted...
• Section 21464.
  (a) A person, without lawful authority, may not deface, injure, attach any material or substance to, knock down, or remove, nor may a person shoot at,...
• Section 21465.
  No person shall place, maintain, or display upon, or in view of, any highway any unofficial sign, signal, device, or marking, or any sign, signal,...
• Section 21466.
  No person shall place or maintain or display upon or in view of any highway any light in such position as to prevent the driver...
• Section 21466.5.
  No person shall place or maintain or display, upon or in view of any highway, any light of any color of such brilliance as to...
• Section 21467.
  Every prohibited sign, signal, device, or light is a public nuisance, and the Department of Transportation, members of the California Highway Patrol, and local authorities...
• Section 21468.
  This division does not modify or limit the authority of the Public Utilities Commission to erect or maintain, or cause to be erected and maintained,...

Last modified: October 22, 2018