Placement and maintenance; department of transportation; local
authorities; unnecessary signals; removal
Sec. 2. (a) The Indiana department of transportation shall place
and, except as otherwise provided in this section, 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.
As added by P.L.2-1991, SEC.9.
Last modified: May 27, 2006