[Prior Code, § 380.010]
(A) 
The City shall provide books containing serially numbered sets of uniform traffic tickets as prescribed by Supreme Court Rule 37.
(B) 
Such books shall be issued to the Chief of Police or to the police clerk. A record shall be maintained of every book so issued and written receipt shall be required for every book. The Municipal Judge or judge hearing municipal ordinance violations 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.
[Prior Code, § 380.020; Penalty, see § 10.99]
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 or her a warning or warning notice and does not take such person into custody under arrest, shall issue to him or her a uniform traffic ticket.
[Prior Code, § 380.040; Penalty, see § 10.99]
(A) 
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 or her within five days during the hours and at a place specified in the traffic ticket.
(B) 
An illegally parked vehicle is presumed to have been parked by the registered owner.
[Prior Code, § 380.050; Penalty, see § 10.99]
(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; or
(4) 
When any vehicle has been left parked in or upon any street or highway or City-owned property within the City for a period of longer than 24 hours.
(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 days, then and in that written report of such removal by mail to the Department of Revenue, 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.
(D) 
The owner of such vehicle shall be liable for towing and storage bills.
(E) 
The procedure and conditions of this section are cumulative and not exclusive.
[Prior Code, § 380.060; Penalty, see § 10.99]
It shall be unlawful for any person to violate his or her written promise to appear given to an officer upon the issuance of a traffic citation regardless of the disposition of the charge for which such citation was originally issued.