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.
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.
All
such records and reports shall be public records.
[R.O. 2012 §305.020]
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
office of City Traffic Engineer is established. The Street Superintendent
or other City Official designated by the Mayor 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 Traffic Engineer shall determine the installation and proper
timing and maintenance of traffic control devices, 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.
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.