[Ord. No. 995 §1701, 5-19-1987]
[Ord. No. 995 §1702, 5-19-1987]
Except when authorized or directed under State law to immediately
take a person before the judge of the City Court for the violation
of any traffic laws, a Police Officer who halts a person for such
violation other than for the purpose of giving him a warning or warning
notice and does not take such person into custody under arrest, shall
issue to him a uniform traffic ticket.
[Ord. No. 995 §1703, 5-19-1987]
A.
Any person
arrested and charged with violating a traffic ordinance may, at the
discretion of the officer authorized by law or rule of court to accept
bail, deposit his chauffeur's or operator's license issued by this
State in lieu of any other security for his appearance in court to
answer any such charge, except when the charge is driving while intoxicated,
driving while under the influence of intoxicating liquor or drugs,
leaving the scene of a motor vehicle accident, driving when his license
is suspended or revoked, or for any charge made because of a motor
vehicle accident in which a death has occurred.
B.
The Judge,
Court Clerk or other officer requiring security for an appearance
shall accept the deposit of the license in lieu of bail and, if the
license is accepted, shall issue a receipt to the licensee for the
license upon a form approved by the Director of Revenue. The licensee
may, until he has appeared at the proper time and place as stated
in the receipt to answer the charge placed against him, operate motor
vehicles while in possession of the receipt, and the receipt shall
be accepted in lieu of the license as provided by Section 302.181
RSMo. If a continuance is requested and granted, the licensee shall
be given a new receipt for his license.
C.
If the
driver fails to appear at the proper time to answer the charge placed
against him, the Clerk of the Court, or the Judge of the Court if
there is no Clerk, shall within ten (10) days notify the Director
of Revenue of the failure to appear, and the Director shall thereafter
withhold any renewal of the license or the issuance of a duplicate
license to the licensee until notified by the Court that the charge
has been reduced to final judgment.
[Ord. No. 995 §1704, 5-19-1987]
Any person who wilfully violates his written promise to appear
or who shall fail to appear in response to any summons or warrant
shall be guilty of a misdemeanor regardless of the disposition of
the charge upon which he was originally arrested or summoned.
