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Section 19-45 Through streets specified; stop before entering.
(a) The following streets and parts of streets are hereby declared to constitute through streets for the purpose of this section: Broad Street, city limit on north to city limit on south; Jackson Street, city limit on east to city limit on west; Smith Avenue, from South Broad Street to city limits; Gordon Avenue; Remington Avenue; Dawson Street from Jackson Street to Vine Street; Clay Street; and West Monroe Street from Madison to Pine. (b) Every operator of a vehicle traversing any street intersecting any through street above designated shall bring such vehicle or conveyance to a full stop at the place where such street meets the prolongation of the nearest property line of such through street; subject, however, to the direction of any traffic-control sign or signal or any police officer at such intersection. (c) The operator of any vehicle who has come to a full stop as required above upon entering the through street, as well as operators of vehicles on such through streets, shall be subject to the usual right-of-way rule prescribed by law and applicable to vehicles at intersections. (d) The city manager is hereby authorized to place and maintain, or cause to be placed and maintained, on each and every street intersection at through streets designated above, and at all other intersections as may be required from a traffic study, and at or near the property line of the through street, appropriate signs upon the streets. In addition thereto, he may place and maintain any appropriate devices or marks in the roadway. Such signs, devices or marks shall bear the word "Stop," and be located in such a position and be provided with letters of such size as to be clearly legible from a distance of at least one hundred (100) feet along the street intersecting the through street. All such signs shall be illuminated at night or so placed as to be illuminated by street lights or by the headlights of approaching motor vehicles. (Code 1958, 22-57) State law reference--Authority to designate through highways or designate stop or yield intersection, O.C.G.A. 40-6-37 1(a)(6).
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