A.
The Police
Department shall keep a record of all violations of the traffic ordinances
of the City or of the State vehicle laws of which any person has been
charged, together with a record of the final disposition of all such
alleged offenses. Such record shall be so maintained as to show all
types of violations and the total of each. Said record shall accumulate
during at least a five (5) year period and from that time on the record
shall be maintained complete for at least the most recent five (5)
year period.
B.
All forms
for records of violations and notices of violations shall be serially
numbered. For each month and year a written record shall be kept available
to the public showing the disposal of all such forms.
C.
All such
records and reports shall be public records.
It shall be the duty of the Police Department to investigate
traffic accidents, to arrest and to assist in the prosecution of those
persons charged with violations of law causing or contributing to
such accidents.
The Police Department shall maintain a suitable system of filing
traffic accident reports. Accident reports or cards referring to them
shall be filed alphabetically by location.
The Police Department shall maintain a suitable record of all
traffic accidents, warnings, arrests, convictions, and complaints
reported for each driver, which shall be filed alphabetically under
the name of the driver concerned.
A.
The Police
Department shall annually prepare a traffic report which shall be
filed with the Mayor. Such report shall contain information on traffic
matters in the City as follows:
1.
The
number of traffic accidents, the number of persons killed, the number
of persons injured, and other pertinent traffic accident data.
2.
The
number of traffic accidents investigated and other pertinent data
on the safety activities of the Police.
3.
The
plans and recommendations of the Police Department for future traffic
safety activities.
The Police Department shall designate a type of pennant or other
identifying insignia to be displayed upon, or other method to be employed
to identify, the vehicles in funeral processions.
A.
The office
of City Traffic Engineer is established. The Chief of Police shall
serve as City Traffic Engineer in addition to his/her other functions,
and shall exercise the powers and duties with respect to traffic as
provided in this Title.
B.
The City
Traffic Engineer shall determine the installation and proper timing
and maintenance of traffic control devices, conduct engineering analyses
of traffic accidents and devise remedial measures, conduct engineering
investigation of traffic conditions, plan the operation of traffic
on the streets and highways of the City, and cooperate with other
City Officials in the development of ways and means to improve traffic
conditions, and carry out the additional powers and duties imposed
by ordinances of the City.
A.
The Chief
of Police 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.
The City
Traffic Engineer may test traffic control devices under actual conditions
of traffic.
[CC 1991 §23-36]
The Police Chief shall have the authority to erect emergency
devices, including barricades, flares and warning signals upon any
street where in his/her opinion there is a danger to motorists.
[CC 1991 §23-41; Ord. No. 98 §50, 12-21-1954]
A.
The Police
Chief is authorized, with the approval of the Mayor, to close any
street, highway or public place and withdraw the same from public
use temporarily and during such period as public work thereon or other
public emergency or expediency shall make such action necessary. At
each end of the portion withdrawn from public use, the Police Chief
shall place a placard or sign having the following words printed thereon
in letters three (3) inches high: "Street Closed. This street is closed
to public use."
[CC 1991 §23-42]
Whenever any street in the City is in a soft condition due to
thawing of frost, rains, new construction or other reason, the Police
Chief shall have the authority to post notices at convenient and public
places along and near such street, which notice shall state the maximum
load of any vehicle that may be permitted on such street, and it shall
be unlawful for any person to fail to comply with the limitation or
restriction stated on such notice.
[CC 1991 §23-43]
The Police Chief, with the approval of the Mayor, shall have
the authority to post notices on each end of any bridge in the City
stating the maximum load of any vehicle that may be permitted on such
bridge, and it shall be unlawful for any person to fail to comply
with the limitation or restriction stated on such notice.
