A.Â
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.Â
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.Â
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. Such reports shall be available
for the use and information of the City Traffic Engineer.
A.Â
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:
1.Â
The number of traffic accidents, the number
of persons killed, the number of persons injured, and other pertinent
traffic accident data.
2.Â
The number of traffic accidents investigated
and other pertinent data on the safety activities of the Police.
3.Â
The plans and recommendations of the Police
Department for future traffic safety activities.
A.Â
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.
B.Â
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.
A.Â
The City Traffic Engineer 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.
B.Â
The City Traffic Engineer may test traffic control
devices under actual conditions of traffic.