A.
The Police
Department shall keep a record of all violations of the traffic ordinances
of the Village 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. Such reports shall be available
for the use and information of the Village Traffic Engineer.
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 Chairman. Such report shall contain information on
traffic matters in the Village 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.
A.
The office
of Village Traffic Engineer is established. The Village Engineer or
other designated Village Official shall serve as Village 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 Village
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 Village, and cooperate with other
Village 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 Village.
A.
The Chief
of Police by and with the approval of the Village Traffic Engineer
is hereby empowered to make regulations necessary to make effective
the provisions of the traffic ordinances of the Village 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 Village
Traffic Engineer may test traffic control devices under actual conditions
of traffic.
