It shall be the duty of the Police Department to enforce the
traffic regulations of the City and all of the State vehicle laws
applicable to traffic in the City, to make arrests for traffic violations,
to investigate traffic accidents, and to cooperate with the City Traffic
Engineer and other officials of the City in the administration of
the traffic laws and in developing ways and means to improve traffic
conditions, and to carry out those duties specially imposed upon said
Police Department by this title and other City ordinances.
(Prior code § 3101; 2804 § 1, 2011)
The Police Department shall cooperate with the City Traffic
Engineer in conducting studies of high accident frequency locations
in an effort to determine remedial measures.
(Prior code § 3102; 2804 § 1, 2011)
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 City Traffic Engineer.
(Prior code § 3103; 2804 § 1, 2011)
The Police Department shall annually prepare a Traffic Report
that shall contain information on traffic matters in the City as follows:
A. The
number of traffic accidents, the number of persons killed, the number
of persons injured, and other pertinent traffic accident data.
B. The
number of traffic accidents investigated and other pertinent data
on the safety activities of the Police Department.
C. The
plans and recommendations of the Police Department for future traffic
safety activities.
(Prior code § 3104; 2804 § 1, 2011)
It shall be the general duty of the City Traffic Engineer to
determine the installation and proper timing and maintenance of traffic-control
devices and signals, to conduct engineering analyses of traffic accidents
and to devise remedial measures, to conduct engineering and traffic
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 ordinances of the City.
(1572 § 2, 1977; 2804 § 1, 2011)