There is hereby established the Office of Commissioner
of Police and Public Safety. Said Commissioner shall be designated
by the Board of Trustees, and shall have the powers and duties conferred
upon him by this article, and such other powers and duties as the
Board of Trustees shall determine.
The Board of Trustees hereby delegates to the
Commissioner of Police and Public Safety the power, with respect to
highways in the village, by order, rule or regulation, whether by
new enactment, amendment or repeal, to:
A. Designate through highways and order stop signs, flashing
signals or yield signs erected at specified entrances thereto or designate
any intersection as a stop intersection or a yield intersection and
order like signs or signals at one or more entrances to such intersection.
B. Prohibit or regulate the turning of vehicles or specified
types of vehicles at intersections or other designated locations.
C. Regulate the crossing of any roadway by pedestrians.
D. Prohibit, restrict or limit the stopping, standing
or parking of vehicles.
E. Designate no-passing zones and indicate such zones
in accordance with the standards, minimum warrants and sign or marking
specifications established by the State Traffic Commission.
G. Provide for the installation, operation, maintenance,
policing and supervision of parking meters in parking-meter zones
designated by this article.
H. Regulate traffic by means of traffic control signals.
I. Prohibit or regulate the operation and the stopping,
standing or parking of vehicles in cemeteries and in public parks.
J. Provide for the removal and storage of vehicles parked
or abandoned on highways during snowstorms, floods, fires or other
public emergencies, or found unattended where they constitute an obstruction
to traffic or any place where stopping, standing or parking is prohibited,
and for the payment of reasonable charges for such removal and storage
by the owner or operator of any such vehicle.
K. Prohibit, restrict or regulate the operation of vehicles
on any controlled-access highway or the use of any controlled-access
highway by any vehicle, device moved by human power or pedestrian.
L. Authorize angle parking on any roadway.
M. Upon a roadway which is divided into three lanes,
allocate the center lane exclusively for traffic moving in a specified
direction.
N. Order signs erected directing slow-moving traffic,
trucks, buses or specified types of vehicles to use a designated lane,
or with signs, signals or markings designate those lanes to be used
by traffic moving in a particular direction regardless of the center
of the roadway.
All existing traffic ordinances, rules and regulations
are to remain in full force and effect unless subsequently repealed
by the procedure set forth herein; the Board of Trustees shall also
retain power to enact ordinances regulating vehicles and traffic.
Any order, rule or regulation promulgated by
the Commissioner of Police and Public Safety shall not be effective
until 15 days after said Commissioner shall have filed with the Village
Clerk and the Village Board a copy of the order, rule or regulation
signed by said Commissioner. The Village Clerk shall keep the signed
copies of said orders, rules or regulations available for public inspection
during the hours when the Village Clerk's office is open, and the
Village Clerk shall furnish a certified copy of any such order, rule
or regulation upon request and payment of fee. The certificate shall
set forth the date said order, rule or regulation was filed with the
Village Clerk, that it has not been rescinded, and that at the time
filed it was duly signed by the Commissioner of Police and Public
Safety then holding office.