[Ord. No. 754 §1(320.010), 5-20-2004; Ord.
No. 2013, 3-4-2020]
A.
The
City shall provide books containing uniform traffic tickets as prescribed
by Supreme Court Rules. Said books shall include serially numbered
sets of citations in quadruplicate in the form prescribed by Supreme
Court Rules.
B.
Such
books shall be issued to the Police Department. A record shall be
maintained of every book so issued and a written receipt shall be
required for every book. The judge hearing City ordinance violation
cases may require that a copy of such record and receipts be filed
with the court.
C.
The
Chief of Police, or his/her authorized agent, 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. 754 §1(320.020), 5-20-2004]
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 stops a person for such violation
other than for the purpose of giving him/her a warning or warning
notice and does not take such person into custody under arrest, shall
issue to him/her a uniform traffic ticket which shall be proceeded
upon in accordance with Supreme Court Rule Number 37.
[Ord. No. 754 §1(320.030), 5-20-2004]
Whenever any motor vehicle without a 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 affix to such
vehicle a uniform traffic ticket for the owner to answer to the charge
against him/her within seven (7) working days during the hours and
at a place specified in the traffic ticket.
[Ord. No. 754 §1(320.040), 5-20-2004]
Police Officers acting for the City of Dardenne Prairie, Missouri,
are hereby authorized to retain from any person arrested and charged
with a traffic violation his/her driver's license in lieu of bond
being posted in accordance with the provisions of Section 544.045,
RSMo.
[Ord. No. 754 §1(320.050), 5-20-2004]
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 seven
(7) working 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/her of the violation and warning him/her that
in the event such letter is disregarded for a period of five (5) days,
a warrant of arrest will be issued.
[Ord. No. 754 §1(320.060), 5-20-2004]
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 under
the following circumstances:
[Ord. No. 2013, 3-4-2020]
1.
When any vehicle is left unattended upon any bridge where such vehicle
constitutes an obstruction to traffic;
2.
When a vehicle upon a highway, roadway or street 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 or roadway and
is 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 authorizes 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 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 owner 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 the 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 owner 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. 754 §1(320.070), 5-20-2004]
A.
In
any prosecution charging a violation of any law or regulation governing
the standing or parking of a vehicle, proof that the particular vehicle
described in the complaint was parked in violation of any such law
or regulation, together with proof that the defendant named in the
complaint was, at the time of such parking, the registered owner of
such vehicle, shall constitute in evidence a prima facie presumption
that the registered owner of such vehicle is the person who parked
or placed such vehicle at the point where and for the time during
which such violation occurred.
B.
The
foregoing stated presumption shall apply only when the procedures
as prescribed in this Chapter have been followed.
[Ord. No. 754 §1(320.080), 5-20-2004]
A.
No
property owner or tenant shall leave any motor vehicle which has been
dismantled, wrecked, junked, discarded or abandoned on his/her premises
for longer than two (2) days unless in an enclosed building.
B.
A "motor vehicle" shall be defined as any machine propelled
by power other than human power and designed to travel along the ground
and shall include, without limitation, automobiles, trucks, motorcycles,
tractors, trailers and wagons.
C.
Any
automobile or motor vehicle shall be presumed to have been abandoned
if it is without current vehicle license, not driveable without repair
or if the owner thereof does not reside on the said premises.
This Section shall not pertain to business enterprises where
the keeping of vehicles is necessary to the lawful operation of the
business.
