[Ch. 19 §19.1601]
[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.
