[CC 1976 §390.020]
A.
The City
shall provide books containing uniform summons and complaints as prescribed
by Supreme Court Rule No. 37.46. Said books shall include serially
numbered sets of citations in quadruplicate in the form prescribed
by Supreme Court Rule.
B.
Such
books shall be issued to the Chief of Police or his/her duly authorized
agent, a record shall be maintained of every book so issued and a
written receipt shall be required for every book. The judge or judges
hearing City ordinance violation cases may require that a copy of
such record and receipts be filed with the court.
C.
The Chief
of Police shall be responsible for the issuance of such books to individual
members of the Police Department. The Chief of Police shall require
a written receipt for every book so issued and shall maintain a record
of every such book and each set of citations contained therein.
[CC 1976 §390.030]
Except when authorized or directed under State law to immediately
take a person before the Municipal Judge 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/her a warning or warning
notice and does not take such person into custody under arrest, shall
issue to him/her a uniform summons and complaint which shall be proceeded
upon in accordance with Supreme Court Rule Number 37.
Whenever any motor vehicle without driver is found parked or
stopped in violation of any of the restrictions imposed by ordinance
of the City or by State law, the Officer finding such vehicle shall
take its registration number and may take any other information displayed
on the vehicle which may identify its user, and shall conspicuously
affix to such vehicle a uniform summons and complaint for the driver
to answer to the charge against him/her within five (5) days during
the hours and at a place specified in the uniform summons and complaint.
If a violator of the restrictions on stopping, standing or parking
under the traffic laws or ordinances does not appear in response to
a uniform traffic ticket affixed to such motor vehicle within a period
of five (5) days, the Traffic Violations Bureau shall send to the
owner of the motor vehicle to which the traffic ticket was affixed
a letter informing him/her of the violation and warning him/her that
in the event such letter is disregarded for a period of five (5) days
a warrant of arrest will be issued.
[CC 1976 §390.010; Ord. No. 1389 §1, 7-15-1980]
Unless another penalty is expressly provided by law, every person
convicted of a violation of any Chapter, Section, Subsection or other
provision of this Title III shall be punishable by a fine of not more
than five hundred dollars ($500.00) or by imprisonment for not more
than ninety (90) days, or by both such fine and imprisonment.