22-3-113. AUTHORIZATION FOR TRAFFIC CONTROLLERS--SAFE SPEED--STOPPING WHEN DIRECTED BY TRAFFIC CONTROLLER.
(1) For the purposes of this Section:
a. "Traffic controller" means a peace officer, firefighter, construction worker, maintenance worker, or school crossing guard who is authorized to direct, control, or regulate traffic.
b. "Controlling traffic" means such actions as are reasonably understood to indicate that the person is directing, controlling, or regulating traffic. Such actions include, but are not limited to, audible or hand signals, signs, flares, etc.
c. "Roadway" means that portion of highway or street improved, designed, or ordinarily used for vehicular travel, exclusive of sidewalks, berms, gutters, or shoulders; even though any of them are used by persons riding bicycles or other human-powered vehicles.
(2) School crossing guards are authorized to direct, control, or regulate traffic for the purposes of assisting schoolchildren crossing roadways, at times and locations approved by the Police Department, and in a manner approved by law or regulation.
a. Highway construction and maintenance workers are authorized to direct, control, or regulate traffic within construction zones where they are employed, when they are designated to be traffic controllers, and in a manner approved by law or regulation.
(3) Wherever a traffic controller is present in a roadway controlling traffic, every vehicle traveling in either direction in that roadway shall slow to a safe and prudent speed under the conditions, regardless of the posted speed limit for that area.
(4) When a traffic controller orders a vehicle to stop, every vehicle traveling in the roadway shall come to a complete stop, and remain stopped until:
a. the vehicle operator is directed to proceed by the traffic controller; or
b. the traffic controller has completely left the roadway.
i. This Subsection applies:
1. when any traffic controller is present, even though other mechanical traffic control devices may be operating, and
2. even if the traffic controller is controlling traffic traveling in the opposite direction; and
3. even if proceeding, turning, or otherwise ignoring the traffic controller would be reasonably safe and prudent under the conditions.
(5) A violation of this Section is an infraction.