[Ord. No. 2.400 §§ 1
— 2, 11-2-1981]
A.
The City shall provide books containing uniform summons and complaint
forms as prescribed by Supreme Court Rule. Said books shall include
serially numbered sets of citations in quadruplicate in the form prescribed
by Supreme Court Rule.
B.
Such books shall be issued to the Chief of Police or his/her duly
authorized agent, a record shall be maintained of every book so issued
and a written receipt shall be required for every book. The judge
or judges hearing City ordinance violation cases may require that
a copy of such record and receipts be filed with the court.
C.
The Chief of Police shall be responsible for the issuance of such
books to individual members of the Police Department. The Chief of
Police shall require a written receipt for every book so issued and
shall maintain a record of every such book and each set of citations
contained therein. (RSMo. § 300.575)
[Ord. No. 2.400 §§ 1
— 2, 11-2-1981]
Except when authorized or directed under State law to immediately
take a person before the Municipal Judge 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 which shall be proceeded
upon in accordance with Supreme Court Rule Number 37. (RSMo. § 300.580)
[Ord. No. 2.400 §§ 1
— 2, 11-2-1981]
Whenever any motor vehicle without driver is found parked or
stopped in violation of any of the restrictions imposed by ordinance
of the City or by State law, the Officer finding such vehicle shall
take its registration number and may take any other information displayed
on the vehicle which may identify its user, and shall conspicuously
affix to such vehicle a uniform traffic ticket for the driver to answer
to the charge against him/her within five (5) days during the hours
and at a place specified in the traffic ticket. (RSMo. § 300.585)
[Ord. No. 2.400 §§ 1
— 2, 11-2-1981]
If a violator of the restrictions on stopping, standing or parking
under the traffic laws or ordinances does not appear in response to
a uniform traffic ticket affixed to such motor vehicle within a period
of five (5) days, the Traffic Violations Bureau shall send to the
owner of the motor vehicle to which the traffic ticket was affixed
a letter informing him/her of the violation and warning him/her that
in the event such letter is disregarded for a period of five (5) days
a warrant of arrest will be issued. (RSMo. § 300.590)
A.
Any person arrested and charged with violating a traffic law of this
City may, at the discretion of both the officer authorized by law
or rule of court to accept bail and the person arrested, deposit his/her
license to operate a motor vehicle with the officer demanding bail
in lieu of any other security for his/her appearance in court to answer
any such charge, except when the charge is for 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.
Notwithstanding the fact that the officer authorized by law or rule
of court to accept bail authorizes the person arrested to deposit
his/her license to operate a motor vehicle as his/her security for
his/her appearance in court, in lieu of depositing his/her license
to operate a motor vehicle, the person arrested may decline to deposit
his/her license to operate a motor vehicle as security and instead
deposit a bond with the officer authorized by law or rule of court
to accept bail or other such officer demanding bail in the amount
of fifty dollars ($50.00) per traffic offense allegedly committed.
The officer shall issue a receipt for such a bond to the person and
deposit the bond with the Judge, Court Clerk or other Officer requiring
security for a court appearance.
C.
The Judge, Court Clerk or other Officer requiring security for an
appearance shall accept the bond or 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 302.181, RSMo. If a continuance is requested
and granted, the licensee shall be given a new receipt for his/her
license.
D.
Whether or not a license to operate a motor vehicle has been deposited
in lieu of bail pursuant to this Section, 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. (RSMo. § 544.045)
[Ord. No. 2.400 §§ 1
— 2, 11-2-1981]
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.
B.
Whenever 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 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. (RSMo. § 300.595)
