A.
The Police Department 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-year period and from that
time on the record shall be maintained complete for at least the most
recent five-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 Police Department 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 Police Department shall maintain a suitable system of filing
traffic accident reports. Such reports shall be available for the
use and information of the City Traffic Engineer.
[1]
Editor's Note: Former Section 305.040, Police Department To
Submit Annual Traffic Safety Report, was repealed 11-8-2023 by Ord.
No. 23-11.12, stating these data points will be included in department
monthly reports.
A.
The office of City Traffic Engineer is established. The City Manager
or his/her designee shall serve as City Traffic Engineer and shall
exercise the powers and duties with respect to traffic as provided
in this Title.
[Ord. No. 15-05.12, 5-19-2015]
B.
The City Traffic Engineer 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 Traffic
Engineer 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 Traffic Engineer may test traffic control devices under
actual conditions of traffic.
[R.O. 2003 § 305.040]
The Police Department shall maintain a suitable record of all
traffic accidents, warnings, arrests, convictions and complaints reported
for each driver, which shall be filed alphabetically under the name
of the driver concerned.
