[Code 1962 §18-23; CC 1979 §16-23; Ord. No. 973 §1, 10-4-1977]
A.
The
City Manager or a City Official designated by him/her is hereby authorized
to perform the following acts with regard to traffic:
1.
To paint, mark, place, erect and maintain official signs, signals
and markings or traffic control devices as authorized herein or by
State law, on the surface, suspended over with legal clearance, or
by the side of the traveled highway, as informational to the traveling
public and as a warning to all vehicle operators and pedestrians.
2.
To designate and establish speed, safety and hazard zones of such
kind, character and number, and at such places, as deemed warranted
and necessary, which will be of the greatest benefit to the general
public;
3.
To erect warning and informational signs or markings at a distance
from certain locations which are deemed by them to be dangerous and
hazardous, and such other informational signs deemed beneficial to
the general public or as a warning to the general public;
4.
To designate and mark lanes for traffic and no-passing zones, as
they are deemed warranted and beneficial to the general public, consistent
with State laws and this Title;
5.
To erect or place signs and markings establishing crossovers or crosswalks,
or prohibiting or restricting the stopping, standing or parking of
vehicles on any highway where, in their opinion, such stopping, standing
and parking of any vehicle or obstruction would unduly interfere with
the free movement of traffic thereon;
6.
To designate, establish and prescribe rules and regulations for the
operation of bus stops, loading and unloading zones and taxicab stands,
and in such places and in such manner as they shall determine to be
of the greatest benefit and convenience to the public, which bus stops,
loading and unloading zones and taxicab stands shall be designated
by appropriate signs;
7.
To prescribe rules and regulations for the vending, display or sale
of merchandise and other wares or products upon any portion of the
highways, streets and alleys in the City;
8.
To designate, post and mark one-way roadways, rotary traffic islands
and City squares for one-way traffic to the right; and
9.
To designate certain highways, streets and alleys in the City as
throughways or through streets and highways.
There is established in the Police Department a Traffic Division
to be under the control of an Officer of Police appointed by and directly
responsible to the Chief of Police.
The Traffic Division 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.
The
Police Department or the Traffic Division thereof 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) period and from that time on the record shall be maintained
complete for at least the most recent five (5) year period.
B.
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.
All
such records and reports shall be public records.
It shall be the duty of the Traffic Division, assisted by other
Police Officers of the 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 Traffic Division shall cooperate with the City Traffic Engineer
in conducting studies of such accidents and determining remedial measures.
The Traffic Division 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 or the Traffic Division thereof 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.
The
Traffic Division 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.
The number of traffic accidents, the number of persons killed, the
number of persons injured, and other pertinent traffic accident data.
2.
The number of traffic accidents investigated and other pertinent
data on the safety activities of the Police.
3.
The plans and recommendations of the division for future traffic
safety activities.
The Traffic Division shall designate a type of pennant or other
identifying insignia to be displayed upon, or other method to be employed
to identify, the vehicles in funeral processions.
A.
The
office of City Traffic Engineer is established. The City Engineer
or other designated City official shall serve as City Traffic Engineer
in addition to his/her other functions, and shall exercise the powers
and duties with respect to traffic as provided in this Title.
B.
The
City Traffic Engineer shall determine the installation and proper
timing and maintenance of traffic control devices, conduct engineering
analyses of traffic accidents and devise remedial measures, conduct
engineering investigation of traffic conditions, plan the operation
of traffic on the streets and highways of the City, and cooperate
with other City Officials in the development of ways and means to
improve traffic conditions, and carry out the additional powers and
duties imposed by ordinances of the City.
A.
The
Chief of Police by and with the approval of the City Traffic Engineer
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. No such temporary or experimental regulation
shall remain in effect for more than ninety (90) days.
B.
The
City Traffic Engineer may test traffic control devices under actual
conditions of traffic.
[Ord. No. 228-2005 §1, 10-18-2005]
A.
There
is established a Traffic Commission to serve without compensation
consisting of the Director of Public Works or his/her designee, the
Chief of Police or in his/her discretion as his/her representative
the Chief of the Traffic Division, a representative of the City Council,
one (1) representative from Code Enforcement, one (1) representative
from the City Attorney's office, the Fire Chief or his/her designee,
one (1) representative from the citizens at large and such number
of other City Officers and representatives of unofficial bodies as
may be determined and appointed by the Mayor. The Chairman of the
Commission shall be appointed by the Mayor and may be removed by him/her.
B.
It
shall be the duty of the Traffic Commission, and to this end it shall
have the authority within the limits of the funds at its disposal,
to coordinate traffic activities, to supervise the preparation and
publication of traffic reports, to receive complaints having to do
with traffic matters and to recommend to the City Council of the City
of Neosho and to the Director of Public Works, the Chief of the Traffic
Division and other City Officials ways and means for improving traffic
conditions and the administration and enforcement of traffic regulations.
