The Police Department shall be under the control of the Chief
of Police.
The Police Department with such aid as may be rendered by other
members of the Police Department shall enforce the street traffic
regulations of the City and all of the State vehicle laws applicable
to street traffic in the City to make arrests for traffic violations,
to investigate accidents and to cooperate with the City Traffic Engineer
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 the division
by this Code and the traffic ordinances of the City.
A.Â
The
Police Department shall keep a record of all violations of the traffic
ordinances of the City or of the State vehicle laws of which any person
has been charged, together with a record of the final disposition
of all such alleged offenses. Such record shall be so maintained as
to show all types of violations and the total of each. Said record
shall accumulate during at least a five (5) year period and from that
time on the record shall be maintained complete for at least the most
recent five (5) year period.
B.Â
All
forms for records of violations and notices of violations shall be
serially numbered. For each month and year a written record shall
be kept available to the public showing the disposal of all such forms.
C.Â
All
such records and reports shall be public records.
It shall be the duty of the Police Department to investigate
traffic accidents, to arrest and to assist in the prosecution of those
persons charged with violations of law causing or contributing to
such accidents.
Whenever the accidents at any particular location become numerous,
the Police Department shall cooperate with the City Traffic Engineer
in conducting studies of such accidents and determining remedial measures.
The Police Department shall maintain a suitable system of filing
traffic accident reports. Accident reports or cards referring to them
shall be filed alphabetically by location. Such reports shall be available
for the use and information of the City Traffic Engineer.
The Police Department shall maintain a suitable record of all
traffic accidents, warnings, arrests, convictions and complaints reported
for each driver, which shall be filed alphabetically under the name
of the driver concerned.
A.Â
The
Police Department shall annually prepare a traffic report which shall
be filed with the Mayor. Such report shall contain information on
traffic matters in the City as follows:
1.Â
The number of traffic accidents, the number of persons killed, the
number of persons injured, and other pertinent traffic accident data.
2.Â
The number of traffic accidents investigated and other pertinent
data on the safety activities of the Police.
3.Â
The plans and recommendations of the Police Department for future
traffic safety activities.
[1]
Editor’s Note: Former Section 305.090, City Traffic
Engineer, which derived from Ord. No. 1515 § 1(30.060), 8-10-1993,
was repealed 4-11-2017 by Ord. No. 2017-14.
[Ord. No. 1515 §2, 8-10-1993; Ord. No. 2017-14 §§ 1 — 2, 4-11-2017]
A.Â
The Chief of Police is hereby empowered to make regulations necessary
to make effective the provisions of the traffic ordinances of the
City and to make and enforce temporary or experimental regulations
to cover emergencies or special conditions to help enforce concerns
of safety. No such temporary or experimental regulation shall remain
in effect for more than ninety (90) days unless an extension of the
regulation is authorized by the Board of Aldermen.
B.Â
The Chief of Police may test traffic control devices under actual
conditions of traffic.
