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.
[R.O. 2009 § 305.020; R.O. 2007
§ 305.050; Ord. No. 486 § 2(p-5), 11-16-1973]
Whenever the accidents at any particular
location become numerous, the Police shall cooperate with the Director
of Public Works in conducting studies of such accidents and determining
remedial measures.
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 Director of Public Works.
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 Public Works
Director 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 Director of Public Works 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 Chief of Police by and with the approval of the Director of Public
Works 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 Director of Public Works may test traffic control devices under
actual conditions of traffic.