[R.O. 1991 § 375.010; Ord. No. 2254-04 § 1, 3-16-2004]
A. The municipality shall provide books containing
uniform traffic tickets as prescribed by Supreme Court Rule No. 37.46.
Said books shall include serially numbered sets of citations in quadruplicate
in the form prescribed by Supreme Court Rule.
B. Such books shall be issued to the Chief
of Police or his/her duly authorized agent, a record shall be maintained
of every book so issued, and a written receipt shall be required for
every book. The judge or judges hearing municipal ordinance violation
cases may require that a copy of such record and receipts be filed
with the court.
C. The Chief of Police shall be responsible
for the issuance of such books to individual members of the Police
Department. The Chief of Police shall require a written receipt for
every book so issued and shall maintain a record of every such book
and each set of citations contained therein.
[R.O. 1991 § 375.020; Ord. No. 2254-04 § 1, 3-16-2004]
Except when authorized or directed
under State law to immediately take a person before the Municipal
Judge for the violation of any traffic laws, a Police Officer who
halts a person for such violation, other than for the purpose of giving
him/her a warning or warning notice and does not take such person
into custody under arrest, shall issue to him/her a uniform traffic
ticket which shall be proceeded upon in accordance with Supreme Court
Rule No. 37.
[R.O. 1991 § 375.030; Ord. No. 2254-04 § 1, 3-16-2004]
Whenever any motor vehicle without
driver is found parked or stopped in violation of any of the restrictions
imposed by ordinance of the City or by State law, the officer finding
such vehicle shall take its registration number and may take any other
information displayed on the vehicle which may identify its user and
shall conspicuously affix to such vehicle a uniform traffic ticket
or other citation for the driver to answer to the charge against him/her
within seven (7) days during the hours and at a place specified in
the traffic ticket.
[R.O. 1991 § 375.040; Ord. No. 2254-04 § 1, 3-16-2004]
If a violator of the restrictions
on stopping, standing or parking under the traffic laws or ordinances
does not appear in response to a uniform traffic ticket affixed to
such motor vehicle within a period of five (5) days, the Traffic Violations
Bureau shall send to the owner of the motor vehicle to which the traffic
ticket was affixed a letter informing him/her of the violation and
warning him/her that in the event such letter is disregarded for a
period of five (5) days, a warrant of arrest will be issued.