A.
The Police Department shall keep a record of all violations of the
traffic ordinances of the Town 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 Town Traffic Engineer.
[Ord. No. 1149 § 2.020, 2-18-2014]
Whenever the accidents at any particular location become numerous,
the Police Department may conduct studies of such accidents and determine
remedial measures.
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 Town 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 Town Traffic Engineer is established. The Chief of
Police or other designated Town Official shall serve as Town 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 Town 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 Town, and cooperate
with other Town 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 Town.
A.
The Town Traffic Engineer is hereby empowered to make regulations
necessary to make effective the provisions of the traffic ordinances
of the Town 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 Town Traffic Engineer may test traffic control devices under
actual conditions of traffic.
