All ordinances authorizing the placement of traffic-control devices, including stop signs, yield signs, and other traffic-control signals and markings; the designation of speed zones, no-passing zones, no-parking zones, one-way streets, and through streets; and other ordinances regulating traffic on specific streets or parts of streets in the city are not included in this code but are specifically saved from repeal upon adoption of this code. Such ordinances are on file in the city secretary's office.
(Ordinance adopting Code)
(a) 
Definitions.
The following words and phrases, when used in this section, shall for the purposes of this section have the meanings respectively ascribed to them in this subsection:
Authorized emergency vehicles.
Vehicles of the fire department (fire patrol), police vehicles and ambulances.
Driver.
Every person who drives or is in actual physical control of a vehicle.
Motor vehicle.
Every vehicle which is self-propelled and every vehicle which is propelled by electric power obtained from overhead trolley wires.
Official time standard.
Whenever certain hours are named they shall mean Central Standard Time or Daylight Savings Time as may be in current use in this city.
Pedestrian.
Any person afoot.
Person.
Every person, firm, co-partnership, association or corporation.
Police officer.
The chief of police and every officer of the municipal police department or any officer authorized to direct or regulate traffic or to make arrests for violations of traffic regulations.
Traffic.
Pedestrians, ridden or herded animals, vehicles and other conveyances either singly or together while using any street for purposes of travel.
Vehicle.
Every device in, upon or by which any person or property is or may be transported or drawn upon a highway, except devices moved by human power or used exclusively upon stationary rails or tracks.
(b) 
Duty to enforce traffic laws.
It shall be the duty of the chief of police and such officers of the police department as are designated to enforce all street traffic laws of this city and all of the state vehicle laws applicable to street traffic in this city.
(c) 
Obedience.
It is a misdemeanor for any person to do any act forbidden or fail to perform any act required in this chapter, which misdemeanor shall be punishable by a fine of not less than $1.00 nor more than $200.00.
(d) 
Penalty.
Unless another penalty is expressly provided by law, every person convicted of a violation of any provisions of this chapter shall be punished by a fine of not less than $1.00 nor more than $200.00.
(e) 
Forms and records of traffic citations and arrests.
The mayor shall provide books to include traffic citation forms for notifying alleged violators to appear and answer to charges of violating traffic laws and ordinances in the municipal court of this city. Said books shall include serially numbered sets of citations in triplicate in the form prescribed and approved by the city council.
(f) 
Procedure of police officers; issuance of citation.
Except when authorized or directed under state law to immediately take a person before a magistrate for the violation of any traffic laws, a police officer who halts a person for such violation other than for the purposes of giving him a warning or warning notice and does not take such person into custody under arrest shall take the name, address and operator's license number of said person, the registered number of the motor vehicle involved, and such other pertinent information as may be necessary, and shall issue to him in writing on a form provided (a traffic citation) containing a notice to answer to the charge against him in the municipal court of the city at a time at least 5 days after such alleged violation to be specified in said citation. The officer, upon receiving the written promise of the alleged violator to answer as specified in the citation, shall release such person from custody.
(Ordinance 3 adopted 10/10/1961; Ordinance adopting Code)