(1) The Traffic Engineer shall determine the installation and proper timing and maintenance of traffic-control devices; conduct engineering analysis of traffic accidents and devise remedial measures; conduct engineering investigations of traffic conditions; plan the operation of traffic on the streets and highways of this City; cooperate with other City officials in the development of ways and means to improve traffic conditions; and carry out the additional powers and duties imposed by ordinances of this City.

(2) The Traffic Engineer shall place, maintain, change and remove traffic-control signs, signals and devices when and as required under the traffic ordinances of this City to make effective and carry out the provisions of said ordinances and may place, maintain, change and remove such additional traffic-control devices as he or she may deem necessary to regulate traffic or to warn or to guide traffic, including but not limited to, the authority to establish, designate and mark school zones within the City of Olathe, Kansas.

(3) Any reference in this ordinance or amendments relating to the authority of the “Chief of Police” in establishing traffic regulations, traffic-control signs, signals and devices shall be construed as referring to the “Traffic Engineer” with the exception of the powers and duties and authority granted to the “Chief of Police” to establish emergency, temporary and experimental regulations as set forth in Section 10.01.003 of this ordinance. (Ord. 01-89 § 2, 2001.)