[Ord. No. 753 §24.100, 10-20-1987]
There is established in the Police Department of the City of
Rock Port, Missouri, a Traffic Division controlled by the Chief of
Police of the City of Rock Port, Missouri.
[Ord. No. 753 §24.101, 10-20-1987]
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 State vehicle laws applicable to street
traffic in the City, to make arrests for traffic violations, to investigate
accidents and to cooperate with the other Officers of the City in
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 Title and the traffic ordinances
of the City.
[CC 1971 §24-1; RSMo. 300.025]
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)-year 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.
[CC 1971 §24-1; RSMo. 300.030]
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.
[CC 1971 §24-1; RSMo. 300.035]
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.
[CC 1971 §24-1; RSMo. 300.040]
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.
[CC 1971 §24-1; RSMo. 300.045]
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.
[CC 1971 §24-1; RSMo. 300.050]
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.
[CC 1971 §24-1; RSMo. 300.055]
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.
[Ord. No. 753 §24.117, 10-20-1987]
The office of the City Traffic Engineer is established. The
City Engineer or other designated City Official shall serve as City
Traffic Engineer in addition to his other functions, and shall exercise
the powers and duties with respect to traffic as provided in this
Title. The City Traffic Engineer shall determine the installation
and proper timing and maintenance of traffic control devices, plan
the operation of traffic on the street 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.
[CC 1971 §24-1; RSMo. 300.065]
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.
[CC 1971 §24-1; RSMo. 300.070]
A. There
is established a Traffic Commission to serve without compensation,
consisting of the City Traffic Engineer, the Chief of Police or in
his discretion as his representative the Chief of the Traffic Division,
the Chairman of the Board of Aldermen Traffic Committee, and one (1)
representative each from the City Engineer's office and the City Attorney's
office 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.
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 legislative body of
the City and to the City Traffic Engineer, 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.