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City of Truesdale, MO
Warren County
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The Police Department 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.
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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.
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All such records and reports shall be public records.
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All convictions shall be sent to the Department of Revenue and/or Highway Patrol by the Circuit Clerk.
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.
The Police Department shall maintain a suitable system of filing traffic accident reports. Traffic accident reports shall be made available as provided by State and City law.
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The Police Department 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:
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The number of traffic accidents, the number of persons killed, the number of persons injured, and other pertinent traffic accident data.
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The number of traffic accidents investigated and other pertinent data on the safety activities of the Police.
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The plans and recommendations of the Police Department for future traffic safety activities.
The Chief of Police 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.