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.
A.
The Police Department shall annually prepare a traffic
report which shall be filed with the Mayor. Such report shall contain
information on traffic matters in the City as follows:
1.
The number of traffic accidents, the number of
persons killed, the number of persons injured, and other pertinent
traffic accident data.
2.
The number of traffic accidents investigated and
other pertinent data on the safety activities of the Police.
3.
The plans and recommendations of the Police Department
for future traffic safety activities.
A.
The office of City Traffic Engineer is established. The
Chief of Police or other designated City Official shall serve as City
Traffic Engineer in addition to his/her other functions and shall
exercise the powers and duties with respect to traffic as provided
in this Title.
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 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.