[Ord. No. 05-20 §1, 12-22-2005]
A.
The
Sheriff's Office shall keep a record of all violations of the traffic
ordinances or orders of the County 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.
[Ord. No. 05-20 §1, 12-22-2005]
It shall be the duty of the Sheriff's Office 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.
[Ord. No. 05-20 §1, 12-22-2005; Ord. No. 10-03, 8-26-2010]
The Sheriff's Office shall maintain a suitable system of filing
traffic accident reports. Accident reports shall be filed by the incident
report number. Such reports shall be available for the use and information
of the County Engineer.
[Ord. No. 05-20 §1, 12-22-2005; Ord. No. 10-04, 8-26-2010]
The Sheriff's Office shall maintain a suitable record of all
traffic accidents, warnings, arrests, convictions and complaints reported
for each driver, which shall be filed by the incident report number.
[Ord. No. 05-20 §1, 12-22-2005]
A.
The
Sheriff's Office shall annually prepare a traffic report which shall
be filed with the Presiding Commissioner. Such report shall contain
information on traffic matters in the County as follows:
1.
The number of traffic accidents, the number of persons killed, the
number of persons injured, and other pertinent traffic accident data
for accidents which have been investigated by the Sheriff's Office.
2.
The number of traffic accidents investigated and other pertinent
data on the safety activities of the Sheriff's Office.
3.
The plans and recommendations of the Sheriff's Office for future
traffic safety activities.
[Ord. No. 05-20 §1, 12-22-2005]
A.
The
office of County Engineer is established. The County Engineer or other
designated County Official shall serve as County 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.
The
County 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 County, and cooperate with other
County Officials in the development of ways and means to improve traffic
conditions, and carry out the additional powers and duties imposed
by ordinances or orders of the County.
[Ord. No. 05-20 §1, 12-22-2005]
A.
The
Sheriff by and with the approval of the County Engineer is hereby
empowered to make regulations necessary to make effective the provisions
of the traffic ordinances or orders of the County 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
County Engineer may test traffic control devices under actual conditions
of traffic.
