2010 Utah Code
Title 41 - Motor Vehicles
Chapter 06a - Traffic Code
41-6a-208 - Regulatory powers of local highway authorities -- Traffic-control device affecting state highway -- Necessity of erecting traffic-control devices.

41-6a-208. Regulatory powers of local highway authorities -- Traffic-control device affecting state highway -- Necessity of erecting traffic-control devices.
(1) The provisions of this chapter do not prevent a local highway authority for a highway under its jurisdiction and within the reasonable exercise of police power, from:
(a) regulating or prohibiting stopping, standing, or parking;
(b) regulating traffic by means of a peace officer or a traffic-control device;
(c) regulating or prohibiting processions or assemblages on a highway;
(d) designating particular highways or roadways for use by traffic moving in one direction under Section 41-6a-709;
(e) establishing speed limits for vehicles in public parks, which supersede Section 41-6a-603 regarding speed limits;
(f) designating any highway as a through highway or designating any intersection or junction of roadways as a stop or yield intersection or junction;
(g) restricting the use of a highway under Section 72-7-408;
(h) regulating the operation of a bicycle and requiring the registration and inspection of bicycles, including requiring a registration fee;
(i) regulating or prohibiting:
(i) certain turn movements of a vehicle; or
(ii) specified types of vehicles;
(j) altering or establishing speed limits under Section 41-6a-603;
(k) requiring written accident reports under Section 41-6a-403;
(l) designating no-passing zones under Section 41-6a-708;
(m) prohibiting or regulating the use of controlled-access highways by any class or kind of traffic under Section 41-6a-715;
(n) prohibiting or regulating the use of heavily traveled streets by any class or kind of traffic found to be incompatible with the normal and safe movement of traffic;
(o) establishing minimum speed limits under Subsection 41-6a-605(3);
(p) prohibiting pedestrians from crossing a highway in a business district or any designated highway except in a crosswalk under Section 41-6a-1001;
(q) restricting pedestrian crossings at unmarked crosswalks under Section 41-6a-1010;
(r) regulating persons upon skates, coasters, sleds, skateboards, and other toy vehicles;
(s) adopting and enforcing temporary or experimental ordinances as necessary to cover emergencies or special conditions;
(t) prohibiting drivers of ambulances from exceeding maximum speed limits; or
(u) adopting other traffic ordinances as specifically authorized by this chapter.
(2) A local highway authority may not:
(a) in accordance with Title 72, Chapter 3, Part 1, Highways in General, erect or maintain any official traffic-control device at any location which regulates the traffic on a highway not under the local highway authority's jurisdiction, unless written approval is obtained from the highway authority having jurisdiction over the highway; or
(b) prohibit or restrict the use of a cellular phone by the operator or passenger of a motor vehicle.
(3) An ordinance enacted under Subsection (1)(d), (e), (f), (g), (i), (j), (l), (m), (n), or (q) is not effective until official traffic-control devices giving notice of the local traffic ordinances are erected upon or at the entrances to the highway or part of it affected as is appropriate.

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Amended by Chapter 337, 2006 General Session