There is established in the Police Department a Traffic Division
to be under the control of an officer of Police appointed by and directly
responsible to the Chief of Police.
[CC 1979 §76.020]
The Traffic Division established by Section 305.010 shall be coexistent with the Police Department of this City. Each officer of the Police Department shall have the duties and responsibilities of an officer of the Traffic Division. The City Police Chief shall be the officer in charge of the Traffic Division.
The Traffic Division with such aid as may be rendered by other
members of the Police Department shall enforce the street traffic
regulations of the City and all of the State vehicle laws applicable
to street traffic in the City, to make arrests for traffic violations,
to investigate accidents and to cooperate with the City Traffic Engineer
and other officers of the City in the administration of the traffic
laws and in developing ways and means to improve traffic conditions
and to carry out those duties specially imposed upon the division
by this Code and the traffic ordinances of the City.
A.
The Police
Department or the Traffic Division thereof 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 Traffic Division, assisted by other
Police Officers of the 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.
Whenever the accidents at any particular location become numerous,
the Traffic Division shall cooperate with the City Traffic Engineer
in conducting studies of such accidents and determining remedial measures.
The Traffic Division 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 City Traffic Engineer.
The Police Department or the Traffic Division thereof 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 Traffic
Division 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 division for future traffic safety
activities.
A.
FUNERAL DIRECTOR
FUNERAL LEAD VEHICLE OR LEAD VEHICLE
ORGANIZED FUNERAL PROCESSION
Definitions. As used in this Section, the following terms
shall mean:
A person licensed as a funeral director pursuant to the provisions
of Chapter 333, RSMo.
Any motor vehicle equipped with at least one (1) lighted
circulating lamp exhibiting an amber or purple light or lens or alternating
flashing headlamps visible under normal atmospheric conditions for
a distance of five hundred (500) feet from the front of the vehicle.
A hearse or coach properly equipped may be a lead vehicle.
Two (2) or more vehicles accompanying the remains of a deceased
person from a funeral establishment, church, synagogue or other place
where a funeral service has taken place to a cemetery, crematory or
other place of final disposition or a funeral establishment, church,
synagogue or other place where additional funeral services will be
performed if directed by a licensed funeral director from a licensed
establishment.
B.
Driving Rules.
1.
Except
as otherwise provided for in this Section, pedestrians and operators
of all other vehicles shall yield the right-of-way to any vehicle
which is a part of an organized funeral procession.
2.
Notwithstanding
any traffic control device or right-of-way provision prescribed by
State or local law, when the funeral lead vehicle in an organized
funeral procession lawfully enters an intersection, all vehicles in
the procession shall follow the lead vehicle through the intersection.
The operator of each vehicle in the procession shall exercise the
highest degree of care toward any other vehicle or pedestrian on the
roadway.
3.
An organized
funeral procession shall have the right-of-way at all intersections
regardless of any traffic control device at such intersections, except
that operators of vehicles in an organized funeral procession shall
yield the right-of-way to any approaching emergency vehicle pursuant
to the provisions of law or when directed to do so by a Law Enforcement
Officer.
4.
All
vehicles in an organized funeral procession shall follow the preceding
vehicle in the procession as closely as is practical and safe under
the conditions.
5.
No person
shall operate any vehicle as part of an organized funeral procession
without the flashing emergency lights of such vehicle being lighted.
6.
Any
person who is not an operator of a vehicle in an organized funeral
procession shall not:
a.
Drive between the vehicles comprising an organized funeral procession while such vehicles are in motion and have the flashing emergency lights lighted pursuant to Subsection (B)(5) above, except when required to do so by a Law Enforcement Officer or when such person is operating an emergency vehicle giving an audible or visual signal;
b.
Join
a funeral procession for the purpose of securing the right-of-way;
or
c.
Attempt
to pass any vehicle in an organized funeral procession, except where
a passing lane has been specifically provided.
7.
When
an organized funeral procession is proceeding through a red signal
light as permitted herein, a vehicle not in the organized funeral
procession shall not enter the intersection unless such vehicle may
do so without crossing the path of the funeral procession.
8.
No ordinance,
regulation or any other provision of law shall prohibit the use of
a motorcycle utilizing flashing amber lights to escort an organized
funeral procession on the highway.
C.
Any person
convicted of violating any provision of this Section shall be punished
by a fine not to exceed one hundred dollars ($100.00).
[CC 1979 §76.030]
A.
The office
of City Traffic Engineer is established. The City Street Superintendent
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. The City Street Superintendent
shall not receive additional compensation by reason of his/her holding
the office of City Traffic Engineer.
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 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.
The City
Traffic Engineer may test traffic control devices under actual conditions
of traffic.
