The Traffic Division, with such aid as may be rendered by other members of the Police Department, shall enforce the provisions of this chapter and all of the state vehicle laws applicable to street traffic in the City; make arrests for traffic violations; investigate accidents; cooperate with the City Traffic Engineer and other officers of the City in the administration of the traffic laws and in developing ways and means to improve traffic conditions; and carry out those duties specially imposed upon the Division by this chapter and other traffic ordinances of the City.
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State Law Reference: For similar provisions, RSMo. § 300.020.
(a) 
The Police Department shall keep a record of all violations of the provisions of this chapter or other 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. The record shall be so maintained as to show all types of violations and the total of each. The 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.
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State Law Reference: For similar provisions, RSMo. § 300.035.
The Police Department or the Traffic Division thereof 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.
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State Law Reference: For similar provisions, RSMo. § 300.045.
The Traffic Division shall annually prepare a traffic report which shall be filed with the Mayor. The report shall contain information on traffic matters in the City as follows:
(a) 
The number of traffic accidents, the number of persons killed, the number of persons injured, and other pertinent traffic accident data.
(b) 
The number of traffic accidents investigated and other pertinent data on the safety activities of the police.
(c) 
The plans and recommendations of the Division for future traffic safety activities.
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State Law Reference: For similar provisions, RSMo. § 300.050.
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Editor's Note: Former § 14-34, Method of identifying funeral processions to be prescribed, was repealed at time of adoption of Code (see Ch. 1, General Provisions, Art. II).
(a) 
The City Traffic Engineer is hereby empowered to make regulations necessary to make effective the provisions of this chapter and other 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 90 days.
(b) 
The City Traffic Engineer may test traffic control devices under actual conditions of traffic.
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State Law Reference: For similar provisions, RSMo. § 300.065.
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Editor's Note: Former § 14.36, providing the establishment, composition, duties and authority of the Traffic Commission, and derived from provisions presumably adopted at the time of initial codification of this Code, was repealed by § 1 of Ord. 7336, adopted 4-4-1985.
[Ord. No. 6514,[2] § 2, 12-20-1979; Ord. No. 7463, § 1, 2-6-1986]
(a) 
In cases where an equally direct and convenient alternate route is provided, the Council may, by ordinance, prescribe, and signs may be erected giving notice thereof, that no person shall operate any commercial vehicle upon streets or parts of streets so described except those commercial vehicles making deliveries thereon.
(b) 
The Director of Public Services is hereby authorized and directed to erect such signs as are necessary to give notice of the foregoing restrictions.[3]
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Editor's Note: Amended at time of adoption of Code (see Ch. 1, General Provisions, Art. II).
(c) 
The following vehicles shall be considered commercial vehicles for the purposes of this section:
(1) 
All vehicles, except camping vehicles, that have dual rear wheels.
(2) 
All vehicles which have a dump-type bed.
(3) 
All motorized construction equipment.
(4) 
All vehicles that exceed 10 feet in height.
(5) 
All trailers used to transport equipment, or construction vehicles.
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Cross Reference: Schedule of streets on which operation of commercial vehicles restricted, § 14-398.
State Law Reference: For similar provisions, RSMo. § 300.550.
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Editor's Note: This ordinance did not expressly amend this Code; hence, redesignation of existing provisions of § 14-37 as Subsection (a) of said section and inclusion of § 2 of Ord. No. 6514 as Subsection (b) of said section is at the discretion of the editor.