All traffic upon the public streets, highways, and roads of the City of Lake Wales
shall be subject to the Florida Uniform Traffic Control Law, F.S. ch. 316, subject
to the amendments or supplements contained in this chapter and the official traffic
map of the city which is hereby adopted and is on file in the office of the city clerk.
The official traffic map shall contain inscriptions designating limitations as to
operation of bicycles, commercial motor vehicles, electric personal assistive mobility
devices, farm tractors, golf carts, implements of husbandry, mopeds, motorized scooters,
motor vehicles, motorcycles, road tractors, semitrailers, special mobile equipment,
trailers, trucks, truck tractors, and vehicles upon certain public streets, highways,
and roads, designating intersections, designating one-way streets, designating limitations
on parking, designating school zones, designating the placement of official traffic
control devices and signals, designating speed limits upon roadways, designating stop
streets, and designating through streets. It is the express intent of the city commission
that this map's inscriptions shall have the full force and effect of law as though
set forth herein in full, and that this map shall constitute authority of the city
police department in the erection of all traffic signs, markers, traffic lights and
other traffic directions. The city manager, with the recommendation of the police
chief, is authorized to temporarily amend the traffic map to protect the public health,
safety or welfare on any public thoroughfare of the City of Lake Wales. Said temporary
amendment shall be presented to the city commission for approval or disapproval at
the next regularly scheduled commission meeting. A temporary street closing for repairs,
flooding, traffic accidents or the like shall not require an amendment of the traffic
map.
