The NJ Police Chief Magazine Volume 26, Number 4 | Page 10

STOP STREET SIGNS
It shall be unlawful for the driver of any vehicle or street car to enter upon or cross any STOP STREET, so designated
and marked, unless he shall have first brought his vehicle or street car to a complete stop at a point within five (5) feet
of the nearest cross-walk or a stop line marked upon the pavement, at the nearest side of such Stop Street, unless
authorized or ordered otherwise by a traffic or police officer stationed at such intersection or unless such intersection
shall be controlled by signal lights.
TRAFFIC SIGNALS
1 – Traffic signals or signal devices shall conform strictly with the following particulars:
2 – A three color system shall be used: Red, Amber and Green. Green shall mean permission for traffic to Go, subject
to the safety of others or the specific directions of an officer; Red shall mean traffic to Stop before entering the
intersection or cross-walk and remain standing until Green is shown; Amber (or Yellow) shall be for the exclusive use
of pedestrians; Amber shall mean vehicles and street cars to stop before entering the intersection or cross-walk, unless
when the Amber so appears the vehicle or street car is so close to the intersection that it cannot be stopped within fifty
feet. If within fifty feet of an intersection the vehicle or street car may proceed across the intersection or make right or
left turns. No vehicle or street car shall enter the intersection or cross-walk if not within this distance of fifty-feet,
while the Amber is displayed, but must wait for the Green to appear alone.
3 – All other uses of Green, Red, Amber or Yellow lights so located as to be confused with traffic signals shall be
discontinued.
4 – The colors shall be shown in the following sequence: A Green light is displayed for a predetermined number of
seconds, followed by an Amber light for a reasonable time for pedestrian traffic, followed by a Red light, followed by
a Green light. The timing of all lights shall be determined by the volume of traffic.
9