A.Â
The Law Enforcement Agency shall keep a record of all violations
of the traffic ordinances of the Village 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.Â
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.Â
All such records and reports shall be public records. (RSMo.
§300.025)
It shall be the duty of the Law Enforcement Agency 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. (RSMo. §300.030)
The Law Enforcement Agency shall maintain a suitable system of filing
traffic accident reports. Such reports shall be available for the
use and information of the Village Traffic Engineer. (RSMo. §300.040)
A.Â
The Law Enforcement Agency shall annually prepare a traffic
report which shall be filed with the Chairman. Such report shall
contain information on traffic matters in the Village as follows:
1.Â
The number of traffic accidents, the number of
persons killed, the number of persons injured, and other pertinent
traffic accident data.
2.Â
The number of traffic accidents investigated and
other pertinent data on the safety activities of the Police.
3.Â
The plans and recommendations of the Law Enforcement Agency
for future traffic safety activities. (RSMo. §300.050)
A.Â
The office of Village Traffic Engineer is established.
The Village Engineer or other designated Village Official shall
serve as Village 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.Â
The Village 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 Village,
and cooperate with other Village 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 Village. (RSMo. §300.060)
A.Â
The Law Enforcement Officer by and with the approval of the Village
Traffic Engineer is hereby empowered to make regulations necessary
to make effective the provisions of the traffic ordinances of the
Village 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.Â
The Village Traffic Engineer may test traffic control
devices under actual conditions of traffic. (RSMo. §300.065)
