[Ord. No. 276 Art. I §276.1-3, 11-17-1997]
A. The
Municipal Court shall establish a Traffic Violations Bureau to assist
the court with the clerical work of traffic cases. The Bureau shall
be in charge of such person or persons and shall be open at such hours
at the Municipal Judge may designate. The judge of the Municipal Court
who hears traffic cases shall designate specified offenses under this
law or under the traffic ordinances of the City and the State traffic
laws in accordance with Supreme Court Rule No. 37.49 in respect to
which payments of fines may be accepted by the Traffic Violations
Bureau in satisfaction thereof and shall specify suitable schedules
of the amount of such fines for first (1st), second (2nd) and subsequent
offenses, provided such fines are within the limits declared by law
or ordinance, and shall further specify what number of such offenses
shall require appearance before the court. If an offender has three
(3) charges within a one (1) year period, he/she must appear before
the Municipal Judge upon the third (3) offense.
1. The Municipal Court may, in connection with the disposition of any
offense that is a "point violation" resulting in the assessment of
points by the State Director of Revenue under the provisions of Section
302.302(1), (2), or (4), RSMo., order the staying of the assessment
of points upon the satisfactory completion of a driver improvement
program approved by the State Director of the Department of Public
Safety.
2. Upon a plea of guilty or finding of guilty for an offense of driving
while intoxicated or driving with blood alcohol content, the court
may (as a condition for suspending all or any portion of any sentence
or in addition to imposition of any penalties provided by law) order
the convicted person to participate in and successfully complete an
alcohol- or drug-related traffic offender education or rehabilitation
program as described in Section 577.049, RSMo. Such programs may be
used as a condition for suspending all or any portion of any sentence
only one (1) time.
The Traffic Violations Bureau shall keep records and submit
to the judges hearing violations of City ordinances summarized monthly
reports of all notices issued and arrests made for violations of the
traffic laws and ordinances in the City and of all the fines collected
by the Traffic Violations Bureau or the court and of the final disposition
or present status of every case of violation of the provisions of
said laws and ordinances. Such records shall be so maintained as to
show all types of violations and the totals of each. Said records
shall be public records.
The Traffic Violations Bureau shall follow such procedure as
may be prescribed by the traffic ordinances of the City or as may
be required by any laws of this State.