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. Such reports shall be available for the
use and information of the City Traffic Engineer.
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.
A.
The office
of City Traffic Engineer is established. The City Engineer or other
designated City Official 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 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.
