[Adopted 7-23-1968 (Sec. 13-1 of the 1985 Code of Ordinances)]
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Editor's Note: State law reference - Service
of notice, summons, G.L. 1956, § 31-27-12 et seq.
All traffic summonses issued by any member of
the Police Department shall be issued as follows.
Summonses shall be numbered consecutively and
issued to each member of the Police Department in pads of 25, on an
approved carbonized form producing an original and a duplicate original.
The original sheet of the summons shall have
a tear-away section dividing it into two sections. An officer issuing
a summons shall fill in the entire original sheet, tear away the bottom
section and give it to the individual summoned. The top part of the
original shall be retained by the officer and returned to police headquarters
where it shall be filed by the Chief of Police in a container so designated
for the officer as an active file, after the complaint is issued.
The officer shall retain the duplicate original
until the matter is disposed of by the court, whereupon he shall be
responsible for recording on the back thereof the disposition, the
court and the date of disposition and returning the duplicate original
to the Chief of Police, who shall file it with the original. When
the officer returns 25 originals and duplicates, the Chief shall remove
the set to an inactive file.
No erasures shall be allowed on any summons.
If an error is made the summons shall be marked "void" and an explanation
of the reason shall be written on the summons.
The Chief of Police shall be responsible for
insuring an ample supply of summonses for his Department and he shall
maintain a "control sheet" which shall contain the date each set of
summonses is issued, to whom and the numbers thereof. The officer
shall sign the control sheet upon receipt of a set of summonses and
shall be responsible for all summonses received.
The Chief of Police shall maintain the control
sheets, active files and inactive files in a locked area and shall
be solely responsible for same. The only persons allowed access to
the control sheet, active and inactive files shall be the Chief of
Police and any member of the Traffic Safety Commission of the Town.
