[CC 1976 §33-68]
A.
The
City shall provide books containing uniform summons and complaint
as prescribed by Supreme Court Rule. Said books shall include serially
numbered sets of citations in quadruplicate in the form prescribed
by State Supreme Court Rule.
B.
Such
books shall be issued to the Chief of Police or his 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 City ordinance violation cases may require that a copy of
such record and receipts be filed with the court.
C.
The
Court Clerk shall be responsible for the issuance of such books to
individual members of the Police Department. The Court Clerk 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.
[CC 1976 §33-69]
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 a warning or warning notice
and does not take such person into custody under arrest, shall issue
to him a uniform summons and complaint which shall be proceeded upon
in accordance with State Supreme Court Rule Number 37.
[CC 1976 §33-70]
Whenever any motor vehicle without a driver is found parked
or stopped in violation of any of the restrictions imposed by this
Title, an 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 summons and
complaint for the driver to answer to the charge against him within
five (5) days during the hours and at a place specified in the summons
and complaint.
[CC 1976 §33-71]
If a violator of the restrictions on stopping, standing or parking
under this Title, the traffic laws or ordinances does not appear in
response to a uniform summons and complaint 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 summons
and complaint 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 (5) days a warrant of arrest will be issued.
[Ord. No. 814 §7, 8-2-1960; CC 1976 §33-72]
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, 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 (3) 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. 1868 §§1 —
3, 8-15-1995]
A.
If
any Missouri resident charged with a Missouri traffic violation of
the City of Pacific:
1.
Fails to dispose of the charge which he is accused through authorized
prepayment of fine and Court costs; and
2.
Fails to appear on the return date or any subsequent date to which
the case has been continued; or
3.
Without good cause fails to pay any fine or court costs assessed
against him/her for any such violations within the period of time
specified or in installments as approved by the Court or otherwise
provided by law.
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Said Municipal Court of the City of Pacific shall within ten
(10) days of the failure to comply with the above, inform the defendant
by ordinary mail at the last address shown on the Court records that
the Court will order the Director of Revenue to suspend the defendant's
driving privileges if the charges are not disposed of and fully paid
within thirty (30) days from the date of mailing.
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B.
After
forwarding notice as set forth above, if the defendant fails to timely
act to dispose of the charges and fully pay any applicable fines and
Court costs the Court shall notify the Director of Revenue of such
failure and of the pending charge against the defendant.
C.
Upon
payment of all applicable fines and Court costs by the defendant the
Municipal Court shall notify the Director of Revenue and furnish the
Director of Revenue satisfactory evidence of the disposition of the
pending charges and payment of the fine and Court costs.
