Terms Used In Idaho Code 49-212

  • Jurisdiction: (1) The legal authority of a court to hear and decide a case. Concurrent jurisdiction exists when two courts have simultaneous responsibility for the same case. (2) The geographic area over which the court has authority to decide cases.
The department and local authorities with reference to highways under their jurisdiction may erect and maintain stop signs, yield signs, or other traffic-control devices to designate through highways, or to designate intersections or other junctions at which vehicular traffic on one or more of the highways should yield, or stop and yield, before entering the intersection or junction.