Colorado Revised Statutes

Colo. Rev. Stat. § 42-4-602 (2026)

Local traffic control devices

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(1) No local authority shall erect or maintain any stop sign or traffic control signal at any location so as to require the traffic on any state highway to stop before entering or crossing any intersecting highway unless approval in writing has first been obtained from the department of transportation.

(2) Where practical no local authority shall maintain three traffic control signals located on a roadway so as to be within one minute's driving time (to be determined by the speed limit) from any one of the signals to the other without synchronizing the lights to enhance the flow of traffic and thereby reduce air pollution.

Source: L. 94: Entire title amended with relocations, p. 2340, § 1, effective January 1, 1995.

Editor's note: This section is similar to former § 42-4-503 as it existed prior to 1994, and the former § 42-4-602 was relocated to § 42-4-702.

Notes of Decisions

Cited in 2 cases, 1987–1987 · leading case: People v. Wright, 742 P.2d 316 (Colo. 1987).

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People v. Wright, 742 P.2d 316 (Colo. 1987). · cites it 2× “In urging a contrary construction of section 18-1-408(2), the defendant argues that, notwithstanding the district attorney’s inability to prosecute a municipal ordinance violation, the compulsory joinder bar should apply when the district attorney could have prosecuted the…”

People v. Sisneros, 738 P.2d 1196 (Colo. Ct. App. 1987). · cites it 3× “Defendant first contends that the trial court erred in failing to give jury instructions on the lesser nonincluded offenses of careless driving, as defined in § 42-4-1204, C.”

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