A.
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-year period and from that
time on the record shall be maintained complete for at least the most
recent five-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.
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.
The office of City Traffic Engineer is established. The Chief
of Police shall serve as City Traffic Engineer in addition to his/her
other functions and shall exercise the powers and duties with respect
to traffic as provided in this Title.
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.
