A.
The
Department of Public Safety 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.
B.
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.
C.
All
such records and reports shall be public records.
It shall be the duty of the Department of Public Safety 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 Department of Public Safety shall maintain a suitable system
of filing traffic accident reports. Such reports shall be available
for the use and information of the City Manager.
A.
The
Department of Public Safety shall annually prepare a traffic report
which shall be filed with the Mayor. Such report shall contain information
on traffic matters in the City as follows:
1.
The number of traffic accidents, the number of persons killed, the
number of persons injured, and other pertinent traffic accident data.
2.
The number of traffic accidents investigated and other pertinent
data on the safety activities of the Police.
3.
The plans and recommendations of the Department of Public Safety
for future traffic safety activities.
A.
The
office of City Traffic Engineer is established. The City Manager or
his/her authorized representative 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.
B.
The
City Manager shall determine the installation and proper timing and
maintenance of traffic control devices, conduct engineering analyses
of traffic accidents and devise remedial measures, conduct engineering
investigation of traffic conditions, 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.
A.
The
Chief of Police by and with the approval of the City Manager 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.
B.
The
City Manager may test traffic control devices under actual conditions
of traffic.
