A.Â
The Village shall keep a record of all violations of the traffic
ordinances of the Village 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-year period and from that
time on the record shall be maintained complete for at least the most
recent five-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 Law Enforcement Officer 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.
The Village shall maintain a suitable system of filing traffic
accident reports. Such reports shall be available for the use and
information of the Village Traffic Engineer.
A.Â
The Law Enforcement Officer shall annually prepare a traffic report
which shall be filed with the Chairman. Such report shall contain
information on traffic matters in the Village 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 Law Enforcement for future
traffic safety activities.
A.Â
The office of Village Traffic Engineer is established. The Village
Engineer or other designated Village Official shall serve as Village
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.Â
The Village 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 Village, and
cooperate with other Village 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 Village.
A.Â
The Chief of Police by and with the approval of the Village Traffic
Engineer is hereby empowered to make regulations necessary to make
effective the provisions of the traffic ordinances of the Village
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.Â
The Village Traffic Engineer may test traffic control devices under
actual conditions of traffic.