It shall be the duty of the chief of police to conduct analysis of traffic accidents and to devise remedial measures, to conduct investigations of traffic conditions and to cooperate with other city officials in the development of ways and means to improve traffic conditions, and to carry out the additional powers and duties imposed by this chapter and other traffic ordinances.
(1981 Code, sec. 18.3)
The chief of police is hereby empowered to make regulations necessary to make effective the provisions of this chapter and other traffic ordinances 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, nor shall it be effective until approved by the city council.
(1981 Code, sec. 18.4)
It shall be the duty of the officers of the police department or such officers as are assigned by the chief of police to enforce all street traffic laws of the city and all of the state vehicle laws applicable to street traffic in the city.
(1981 Code, sec. 18.5)
Officers of the police department or such officers as are assigned by the chief of police are hereby authorized to direct all traffic by voice, hand, or signal in conformance with traffic laws. In the event of fire or other emergency or to expedite traffic or to safeguard pedestrians, officers of the police department may direct traffic as conditions may require notwithstanding the provisions of the traffic laws.
(1981 Code, sec. 18.6)
No person shall willfully fail or refuse to comply with any lawful order or direction of a police officer or fire department official given to direct or control traffic as authorized in this chapter.
(1981 Code, sec. 18.8)
(a) 
Offense.
No person operating a motor vehicle upon a public street, alley or other place subject to the traffic jurisdiction and laws of the city shall flee from or seek to evade a police officer, after having received an indication from such officer, either by the blinking or flashing of red lights, the sounding of a siren or whistle, motioning by the officer or any other plain and unmistakable indication, that the officer is attempting to stop such person.
(b) 
Penalty.
Any person violating any of the provisions of this section shall be subject to a fine in accordance with the general penalty provided in section 1.01.009 for each offense.
(1981 Code, sec. 18.9; Ordinance adopting 2021 Code)
The provisions of this chapter shall apply to the drivers of any vehicle owned by or used in the service of the United States government, this state, county or city, and it shall be unlawful for any such driver to violate any of the provisions of this chapter, except as otherwise permitted herein or by state statute.
(1981 Code, sec. 18.20)
(a) 
The provisions of this chapter regulating the operation, parking and standing of vehicles shall apply to authorized emergency vehicles, except that a driver, when operating any such vehicle in an emergency or in the immediate pursuit of an actual or suspected violator of the law, except when otherwise directed by a police officer, may:
(1) 
Park or stand notwithstanding the provisions of this chapter.
(2) 
Proceed past a red or stop signal or stop sign, but only after slowing down as may be necessary for safe operation.
(3) 
Disregard regulations governing direction or movement or turning in specified directions so long as he does not endanger life or property.
(b) 
The exemptions granted above shall apply only when the driver of the vehicle sounds a siren, bell or exhaust whistle as may be reasonably necessary, and the vehicle displays a lighted red lamp visible from the front as a warning to others.
(1981 Code, sec. 18.21)
The police department shall maintain a suitable record of all traffic accidents, arrests, convictions and complaints reported for each driver, which shall be filed alphabetically under the name of the driver concerned. Such reports shall accumulate during at least a five (5) year period and from that time on such records shall be maintained complete for at least the most recent five (5) year period.
(1981 Code, sec. 18.24)
(a) 
The police department and the judge of the municipal court shall keep a record of all violations of this chapter and other traffic ordinances of the city and 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. Such record shall accumulate during at least a five (5) year period, and, from that time on, the record shall be maintained complete for at least the most recent five (5) year period.
(b) 
All forms for records of traffic 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 shall be public records.
(1981 Code, sec. 18.25)