Local authorities; jurisdiction; duties; traffic calming devices
Sec. 3. (a) As used in this section, "traffic calming device" means
a device erected to slow traffic on residential streets, including the
following:
(1) traffic circles;
(2) curb extensions;
(3) neck downs;
(4) diagonal diverters;
(5) truncated diagonal diverters; or
(6) chicanes.
(b) A local authority shall place and maintain traffic control
devices upon highways under the authority's jurisdiction, not
including state highways, the authority considers necessary to
indicate and to carry out this article or local traffic ordinances or to
regulate, warn, or guide traffic. All traffic control devices, except
traffic calming devices, erected under this section after June 30,
1939, must conform to the Indiana manual on uniform traffic control
devices for streets and highways, ("the state manual") and design
specifications. However, the design and use of traffic calming
devices shall conform to generally accepted engineering principles
of road design, and shall not affect the requirements of the state
manual and design specifications as regards any other traffic control
device, as used in this chapter.
As added by P.L.2-1991, SEC.9. Amended by P.L.93-1996, SEC.1.
Last modified: May 27, 2006