[Ord. No. 252, §1]
(a)
The municipal court shall provide books containing uniform traffic
tickets as prescribed by Supreme Court Rule No. 37.46. Such books
shall include serially numbered sets of citations in quadruplicate
in the form prescribed by supreme court rule.
(b)
The municipal court shall issue such books to the chief of police
or his duly authorized agent and shall maintain a record of every
book so issued and shall require a written receipt for every such
book.
(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.
[Ord. No. 252, §1]
Except when authorized or directed under state law to immediately
take a person before the judge of the municipal court 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 a warning or warning
notice and does not take such person into custody under arrest, shall
issue to him a uniform traffic ticket which shall be proceeded upon
in accordance with Supreme Court Rule No. 37.
[Ord. No. 252 §1; Ord. No. 1669 §4, 1-21-2003; Ord. No. 1744 §2, 2-3-2004]
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 within seven (7) days
during the hours and at a place specified in the traffic ticket.
[Ord. No. 252, §1]
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 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 of the violation and warning him that in the event such
letter is disregarded for a period of five days a warrant of arrest
will be issued.
[Ord. No. 252, §1]
(a)
Members of the police department are authorized to remove a vehicle
from a street or highway to the nearest garage or other place of safety,
or to a garage designated or maintained by the police department,
or otherwise maintained by the city under the circumstances hereinafter
enumerated:
(1)
When any vehicle is left unattended upon any bridge, viaduct
or causeway, or in any tube or tunnel where such vehicle constitutes
an obstruction to traffic.
(2)
When a vehicle upon a highway is so disabled as to constitute
an obstruction to traffic and the person in charge of the vehicle
is by reason of physical injury incapacitated to such an extent as
to be unable to provide its custody or removal.
(3)
When any vehicle is left unattended upon a street and is so
parked illegally as to constitute a definite hazard or obstruction
to the normal movement of traffic.
(b)
Whenever an officer removes a vehicle from a street as authorized
in this section and the officer knows or is able to ascertain from
the registration records in the vehicle the name and address of the
owner thereof, such officer shall immediately give or cause to be
given notice in writing to such owner of the fact of such removal
and the reasons therefor and of the place to which such vehicle has
been removed. In the event any such vehicle is stored in a public
garage, a copy of such notice shall be given to the proprietor of
such garage.
(c)
Whenever an officer removes a vehicle from a street under this section
and does not know and is not able to ascertain the name of the owner,
or for any other reason is unable to give the notice to the owner
as hereinbefore provided, and in the event the vehicle is not returned
to the owner within a period of three days, then and in that event
the officer shall immediately send or cause to be sent a written report
of such removal by mail to the state department whose duty it is to
register motor vehicles, and shall file a copy of such notice with
the proprietor of any public garage in which the vehicle may be stored.
Such notice shall include a complete description of the vehicle, the
date, time and place from which removed, the reasons for such removal
and the name of the garage or place where the vehicle is stored.
[Ord. No. 159 §§2-3; Ord. No. 601 §§1-2; Ord.
No. 1095 §2, 4-19-1994]
(a)
Any member of the police department, upon the discovery of any vehicle
illegally parked or abandoned as provided in any traffic control ordinance
of the city, may take such vehicle into his custody and may cause
the same to be removed and stored in a proper place. No liability
is attached to the officer ordering the removal and storage of such
vehicle or for damage caused thereto or resulting therefrom, and any
person towing or storing such vehicle at the request of any member
of the police department shall have a lien on such vehicle for the
towing and storage charges incurred.
