[CC §32.088; Ord. No. 160, 2-4-1980]
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 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.
[CC §32.089; Ord. No. 160, 2-4-1980]
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 Supreme Court Rule Number 37.
[CC §32.090; Ord. No. 160, 2-4-1980]
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 for the driver to answer
to the charge against him within five (5) days during the hours and
at a place specified in the traffic ticket.
[CC §32.091; Ord. No. 160, 2-4-1980; Ord. No. 653 §2, 12-20-1999]
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 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 (5) days a warrant of arrest
will be issued.
[CC §32.092; Ord. No. 160, 2-4-1980]
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 (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.
[CC §36.51; Ord. No. 38, 2-3-1975]
A.
Whenever
a vehicle is removed from the public streets, avenues or roads of
the City of St. John, the Police Officer in charge shall make a reasonable
investigation to determine the ownership of the vehicle and address
of its owner and shall use reasonable diligence to notify such owner
that the vehicle has been impounded under Police authority and is
located at a designated place of safekeeping.
B.
If
the Police Officer is unable to determine the ownership of the vehicle,
he shall within seven (7) days from the day the vehicle is towed,
notify the State Motor Vehicle Department of the Impoundment.
A.
Any
person arrested and charged with violating a traffic law of this City
or a traffic ordinance of any city, may, at the discretion of both
the officer authorized by law or rule of court to accept bail and
the person arrested, deposit his license to operate a motor vehicle
with a member of the Highway Patrol or with the officer demanding
bail in lieu of any other security for his appearance in court to
answer any such charge, except when the charge is for driving while
intoxicated, driving while under the influence of intoxicating liquor
or drugs, leaving the scene of a motor vehicle accident, driving when
his license is suspended or revoked, or for any charge made because
of a motor vehicle accident in which a death has occurred.
B.
Notwithstanding
the fact that the officer authorized by law or rule of court to accept
bail authorizes the person arrested to deposit his license to operate
a motor vehicle as his security for his appearance in court, in lieu
of depositing his license to operate a motor vehicle, the person arrested
may decline to deposit his license to operate a motor vehicle as security
and instead deposit a bond with the officer authorized by law or rule
of court to accept bail or other such officer demanding bail in the
amount of fifty dollars ($50.00) per traffic offense allegedly committed.
The officer shall issue a receipt for such a bond to the person and
deposit the bond with the Judge, Court Clerk or other officer requiring
security for a court appearance.
C.
The
Judge, Court Clerk or other officer requiring security for an appearance
shall accept the bond or deposit of the license in lieu of bail and,
if the license is accepted, shall issue a receipt to the licensee
for the license upon a form approved by the Director of Revenue. The
licensee may, until he has appeared at the proper time and place as
stated in the receipt to answer the charge placed against him, operate
motor vehicles while in possession of the receipt, and the receipt
shall be accepted in lieu of the license as provided by Section 302.181,
RSMo. If a continuance is requested and granted, the licensee shall
be given a new receipt for his license.
D.
Whether
or not a license to operate a motor vehicle has been deposited in
lieu of bail pursuant to this Section, if the driver fails to appear
at the proper time to answer the charge placed against him, the Clerk
of the Court, or the Judge of the Court if there is no clerk, shall
within ten (10) days notify the Director of Revenue of the failure
to appear, and the Director shall thereafter withhold any renewal
of the license or the issuance of a duplicate license to the licensee
until notified by the court that the charge has been reduced to final
judgment.
