It shall be the duty of the traffic engineer 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.
(1965 Code, sec. 20-2)
Officers of the fire department, when at the scene of a fire
or other emergency may direct or assist the police in directing traffic
thereat or in the immediate vicinity.
(1965 Code, sec. 20-7)
No person shall wilfully 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.
(1965 Code, sec. 20-8)
No person riding upon any bicycle, motorcycle, coaster, sled,
skateboard, roller skates or any toy vehicle, shall attach the same
or himself to any moving vehicle upon any roadway.
(1965 Code, sec. 20-13)
Editor's note—Ordinance 1365, adopted Oct.
9, 1995, repealed former § 18-5, which pertained to the use of
roller skates, coasters, etc., on roadways.
It shall be unlawful for any person, when giving a written promise
to appear, or when given a written notice by any police officer to
appear before the municipal court to answer for an offense against
any traffic law of this state, or any provision of this chapter or
other traffic ordinance of the city, to give an assumed or fictitious
name or a false place of residence or address, or any other than the
true name and the true place of his residence or address, upon the
request of such officer.
(1965 Code, sec. 20-21)
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 records shall accumulate during at least
a five-year period and from that time on such records shall be maintained
complete for at least the most recent five-year period.
(1965 Code, sec. 20-22)
