A.
There is hereby established in the Police Department
of this City a Traffic Division to be under the control of an officer
of the police appointed by and directly responsible to the Chief of
Police.
B.
It shall be the duty of the Traffic Division, with
such aid as may be rendered by other members of the Police Department
or other authorized persons, to enforce the street traffic laws of
this City and all state laws applicable to street traffic in this
City; to issue citations for traffic violations; to investigate accidents
and to cooperate with the Police Chief and the Traffic Safety Committee
and other officers 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 Division
by this chapter.
A.
The Traffic Division shall keep a record of all traffic
violations of the ordinances of this City or of the state law of which
any person has been charged, together with a record of the final disposition
of all such alleged offenses.
B.
Such record shall be so maintained as to show all
types of violations and the total of each. Said record shall accumulate
until a ten-year period is covered, and from that time on the record
shall be maintained complete from the most recent ten-year period.
All forms for such records of violations and notices of violations
shall be kept available to the public, showing the disposal of all
such forms.
C.
All such records and reports shall be available for
use and study by the City Traffic Safety Committee.
It shall be the duty of the Traffic Division
to receive and properly file all accident reports required to be filed
under this chapter or state law, but all such accident reports shall
be for the confidential use of the Police Department and the City
Traffic Safety Committee, and no such report shall be admissible in
any civil or criminal proceeding other than upon request of any person
making such report or upon request of the court having jurisdiction
to prove a compliance with the laws requiring the making of any such
report.
[Amended 5-2-2004]
A.
It shall be the duty of the Traffic Division to investigate
traffic accidents, and said Division shall maintain a suitable system
of filing traffic accident reports. Such accident reports or cards
referring to them shall be filed chronologically, and such reports
shall be available for use and information by the City Traffic Safety
Committee. Whenever the accidents at any particular location become
numerous, said Division shall cooperate with the City Traffic Safety
Committee in conducting studies of such accidents and determining
remedial measures.
B.
The Chief of Police or his designee may cause any
accident involving a fatality or significant injury or property damage
to be investigated by a certified accident reconstructionist. The
fee for any report produced by the accident reconstructionist shall
be established by the Council after a public hearing.
The Traffic Division shall maintain a suitable
record of all traffic accidents, warnings, arrests, convictions and
complaints in which the same shall be filed alphabetically under the
name of the driver concerned. Said Division shall study the causes
of all accidents.
The Traffic Division shall annually prepare
a traffic report to contain information on traffic matters in the
City as follows:
A.
The number of traffic accidents, the number of persons
killed or injured and other pertinent traffic accident data.
B.
The number of traffic accidents investigated, the
number of drivers with bad records interrogated and other pertinent
data on the safety activities of the Police.
C.
The plans and recommendations of the Division for
future traffic safety activities.
