A.Â
The
Chief of Police by and with the approval of the City Traffic Engineer
is hereby empowered to make regulations necessary to make effective
the provisions of the traffic ordinances of the City and to make and
enforce temporary or experimental regulations to cover emergencies
or special conditions. No such temporary or experimental regulation
shall remain in effect for more than ninety (90) days.
B.Â
The
City Traffic Engineer may test traffic control devices under actual
conditions of traffic.
[Code 1975 §15.02(7); CC 1989 §13-22]
The Mayor and Board of Aldermen, may, upon application of an
owner or lessor of land, either publicly or privately owned, open
to vehicular traffic by the public, and used by the public as a thoroughfare,
with such thoroughfare paved, marked and delineated, enter into an
agreement with such owner or lessor to extend the enforcement of traffic
regulations to such thoroughfares without requiring the owner to file
a plat of the land and/or to dedicate to the City such thoroughfare
as a street; provided that, the City shall not be responsible for
the maintenance or condition of such thoroughfare and shall retain
the power to terminate the agreement at will. Required regulative
traffic control signs and speed limits shall be clearly set forth
in a resolution authorizing any such agreement.
[Code 1975 §15.02(25); CC 1989 §13-23]
The Police Department shall enforce the regulations of this
Title and State vehicle laws, make arrests for violations of such,
investigate accidents, cooperate with other City Officials in administration
of traffic laws and in developing ways and means to improve traffic
conditions and carry out those duties especially imposed upon it by
this Chapter.
