Section 305.010 Emergency and Experimental Regulations.
Section 305.020 Police Department To Investigate Accidents.
Section 305.030 Traffic Accident Reports.
Section 305.040 City Traffic Engineer.
Section 305.010 Emergency and Experimental Regulations.
[R.O. 2006 §305.010; Ord. No. 497 §2, 6-26-1979; Ord. No. 1915 §1, 11-20-1995]
A.
The City
Administrator and/or the Chief of Police or his/her designated representative
are hereby empowered to make regulations necessary to make effective
the provisions of the traffic ordinances of the City. The City's Police
Department shall 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 Police
Department may test traffic control devices under actual conditions
of traffic.
Section 305.020 Police Department To Investigate Accidents.
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.
Section 305.030 Traffic Accident Reports.
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.
Section 305.040 City Traffic Engineer.
[R.O. 2006 §§315.140 — 315.150; Ord. No. 497 §§27 — 28, 6-26-1979; Ord. No. 1915 §§6 —
7, 11-20-1995; Ord. No.
3278 §1, 7-26-2012]
A.
The office
of City Traffic Engineer is established. The City Traffic Engineer,
as designated by the City Administrator, 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.
C.
Designations Of Crosswalks And The Establishment Of Safety Zones. The City Traffic Engineer, with the approval of the Board of Aldermen,
is hereby authorized:
1.
To designate
and maintain, by appropriate devices, marks or lines upon the surface
of the roadway, crosswalks at intersections where in his/her opinion
there is particular danger to pedestrians crossing the roadway, and
at such other places as he/she may deem necessary;
2.
To establish
safety zones of such kind and character and at such places as he/she
may deem necessary for the protection of pedestrians.
D.
Authorized
crosswalks and safety zones are set forth in Schedule I.
E.
Traffic Lanes. The City Traffic Engineer, by and with the
approval of the Board of Aldermen is hereby authorized to mark traffic
lanes upon the roadway of any street or highway where a regular alignment
of traffic is necessary.
F.
Where
traffic lanes have been marked, it shall be unlawful for the operator
of any vehicle to fail or refuse to keep such vehicle within the boundaries
of any such lanes except when lawfully passing another vehicle or
preparatory to making a lawful turning movement.
G.
Restricted Turn Signs. The City Traffic Engineer is hereby
authorized to determine those intersections at which drivers of vehicles
shall not make a right, left or U-turn and shall place proper signs
at such intersections. The making of such turns may be prohibited
between certain hours of any day and permitted at other hours, in
which event the same shall be plainly indicated on the signs or they
may be removed when such turns are permitted.