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"No Thru Traffic" signs are enforceable!? What law does that fall under?

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forrestthewoods 10y ago
A law that says "no thru traffic"? The real question would be "what law prevents that from being written into law". To which the answer is probably nothing.
- ctdonath 10y ago
  Even having such a law preventing certain laws does little. There's a well-known top-level law stating a particular right "shall not be infringed". Infringing laws abound nonetheless, with most judges disinclined to invalidate them.
  - knieveltech 10y ago
    Alas if they'd only left out the word "militia"...
    - protomyth 10y ago
      Militia had a specific meaning to the founders. Alas, if people today would study what the words they used actually meant.
      - knieveltech 10y ago
        Conversely, if folks got treatment for their paranoia and compensation issues we wouldn't be literally awash in guns so there'd be nothing to debate.
        zeveb 10y ago
        Is there even treatment for unjustified feelings of superiority?
bagels 10y ago
In California, maybe this one? 21461. (a) It is unlawful for a driver of a vehicle to fail to obey a sign or signal defined as regulatory in the federal Manual on Uniform Traffic Control Devices, or a Department of Transportation approved supplement to that manual of a regulatory nature erected or maintained to enhance traffic safety and operations or to indicate and carry out the provisions of this code or a local traffic ordinance or resolution adopted pursuant to a local traffic ordinance, or to fail to obey a device erected or maintained by lawful authority of a public body or official.
dragonwriter 10y ago
The law that says disobeying officially posted traffic-control signage is a prohibited?
- FireBeyond 10y ago
  How does your average driver know that the traffic control signage is official when the residents are putting up their own privately owned signs for traffic control? If they have to 'err on the side of caution', then the residents win, despite having no legal right.
  - yellowapple 10y ago
    I'm pretty sure there are laws against posting fake signs on government-maintained roads.
    - FireBeyond 10y ago
      And yet here's someone proudly, in national media no less, saying he does exactly that...
TelAviv_1 10y ago
If you read the article, you'd know that was a "pirate" sign erected by one of the homeowners.

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A law that says "no thru traffic"? The real question would be "what law prevents that from being written into law". To which the answer is probably nothing.

ctdonath 10y ago
Even having such a law preventing certain laws does little. There's a well-known top-level law stating a particular right "shall not be infringed". Infringing laws abound nonetheless, with most judges disinclined to invalidate them.
- knieveltech 10y ago
  Alas if they'd only left out the word "militia"...
  - protomyth 10y ago
    Militia had a specific meaning to the founders. Alas, if people today would study what the words they used actually meant.
    - knieveltech 10y ago
      Conversely, if folks got treatment for their paranoia and compensation issues we wouldn't be literally awash in guns so there'd be nothing to debate.
      - zeveb 10y ago
        Is there even treatment for unjustified feelings of superiority?

bagels 10y ago

In California, maybe this one? 21461. (a) It is unlawful for a driver of a vehicle to fail to obey a sign or signal defined as regulatory in the federal Manual on Uniform Traffic Control Devices, or a Department of Transportation approved supplement to that manual of a regulatory nature erected or maintained to enhance traffic safety and operations or to indicate and carry out the provisions of this code or a local traffic ordinance or resolution adopted pursuant to a local traffic ordinance, or to fail to obey a device erected or maintained by lawful authority of a public body or official.

dragonwriter 10y ago

The law that says disobeying officially posted traffic-control signage is a prohibited?

FireBeyond 10y ago
How does your average driver know that the traffic control signage is official when the residents are putting up their own privately owned signs for traffic control? If they have to 'err on the side of caution', then the residents win, despite having no legal right.
- yellowapple 10y ago
  I'm pretty sure there are laws against posting fake signs on government-maintained roads.
  - FireBeyond 10y ago
    And yet here's someone proudly, in national media no less, saying he does exactly that...

TelAviv_1 10y ago

If you read the article, you'd know that was a "pirate" sign erected by one of the homeowners.