§ 16-26. Division of authority over streets that are state highways.

(a)

All traffic and parking restrictions on streets which are a part of the state highway system shall be regulated and enforced by the town, except that such regulations on such streets shall be subject to the approval of the state department of transportation before becoming effective.

(b)

No stop sign or traffic control signal shall be erected or maintained in any location within the town so as to require the traffic on any state highway to stop before entering or crossing any intersecting highway unless approval in writing has first been obtained from the state department of transportation.

(c)

The traffic engineer or other official vested with responsibility for traffic is authorized to accept, upon the basis of a traffic investigation or survey or upon the basis of appropriate design standards and projected traffic volumes in the case of newly constructed highways or segments thereof, recommendations of the state department of transportation for speed limits upon any state highway or federal aid highway within the town, and such speed limits shall be effective when appropriate signs giving notice thereof are erected along said highways or roadways, regardless of whether said signs are placed by the state department of transportation or by the traffic authority of the town.

(Code 1987, § 13-1-14)