Local authorities in their respective jurisdiction [jurisdictions] shall place and maintain such traffic-control devices upon highways under their jurisdiction as they may deem necessary to indicate and to carry out the provisions of Article 7 of Chapter 66 NMSA 1978 or local traffic ordinances or to regulate, warn or guide traffic. All such traffic-control devices hereafter erected shall conform to the state manual and specifications.

History: 1953 Comp., § 64-7-103, enacted by Laws 1978, ch. 35, § 383.

Cross references. — For priority of state highways over secondary roads as to stopping or yielding, see 66-7-9 NMSA 1978.

Bracketed material. — The bracketed material was inserted by the compiler and is not a part of the law.

Placement of portable barricades is a method of traffic control under the Manual of Uniform Traffic Control Devices which must be followed by local authorities. Rutherford v. Chaves County, 2003-NMSC-010, 133 N.M. 756, 69 P.3d 1199.

Driver charged with obeying stop sign or being found negligent. — Where stop sign had been erected and maintained by legally constituted authority and "was at least a de facto warning sign," the driver in the exercise of due care was charged with the duty to obey it, or run the risk of being found guilty of negligence. Sellman v. Haddock, 1959-NMSC-082, 66 N.M. 206, 345 P.2d 416.

Am. Jur. 2d, A.L.R. and C.J.S. references. — Municipality's liability for failure to erect traffic warnings against entering or using street which is partially barred or obstructed by construction or improvement work, 52 A.L.R.2d 689.

Governmental liability for failure to post highway deer crossing warning signs, 59 A.L.R.4th 1217.

Legal aspects of speed bumps, 60 A.L.R.4th 1249.

60 C.J.S. Motor Vehicles § 43.

Liability of municipal corporation or electric utility for injury resulting from inoperative, malfunctioning, or otherwise defective street light. 11 A.L.R.5th 579.