[Ch. 19 §19.1601]
A. 
The City shall provide to the Chief of Police uniform traffic tickets as prescribed by Supreme Court Rule.
B. 
The Chief of Police shall be responsible for the issuance of such books to individual members of the Police Department.
[Ch. 19 §19.1602]
Except when authorized or directed under State law to immediately take a person before the judge of the City court 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/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.
[Ch. 19 §19.1603]
A. 
Any person arrested and charged with violating a traffic ordinance may, at the discretion of the officer authorized by law or rule of court to accept bail, deposit his/her chauffeur's or operator's license issued by this State in lieu of any other security for his/her appearance in court to answer any such charge, except when the charge is driving while intoxicated, driving while under the influence of intoxicating liquor or drugs, leaving the scene of a motor vehicle accident, driving when his/her license is suspended or revoked, or for any charge made because of a motor vehicle accident in which a death has occurred.
B. 
The judge, Court Clerk or other officer requiring security for an appearance shall accept the 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/she has appeared at the proper time and place as stated in the receipt to answer the charge placed against him/her, operate motor vehicles while in possession of the receipt, and the receipt shall be accepted in lieu of the license as provided by Section 544.045, RSMo. If a continuance is requested and granted, the licensee shall be given a new receipt for his/her license.
C. 
If the driver fails to appear at the proper time to answer the charge placed against him/her, 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.
[Ch. 19 §19.1604]
Any person who willfully violates his/her written promise to appear or who shall fail to appear in response to any order of the Court, or any summons or warrant shall be guilty of a violation of these ordinances and punishable upon conviction as set out in Section 100.040, regardless of the disposition of the charge upon which he/she was originally arrested or summoned.
[Ch. 19 §19.1401]
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.
4. 
When any vehicle is parked on posted private property upon complaint of the owner, lessee or person in charge of said private property.
B. 
When 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 of Revenue 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.