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Timestamp: 2019-04-19 09:19:14+00:00

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§ 305.020 Duty of Traffic Division.
§ 305.030 Records of Traffic Violations.
§ 305.040 Traffic Division To Investigate Accidents.
§ 305.050 Traffic Accident Studies and Reports.
§ 305.060 Driver Files To Be Maintained.
§ 305.070 Traffic Division To Submit Annual Traffic Safety Report.
§ 305.080 City Traffic Engineer.
§ 305.090 Emergency and Experimental Regulations.
Section 305.020 Duty of Traffic Division.
Section 305.030 Records of Traffic Violations.
Section 305.040 Traffic Division To Investigate Accidents.
Section 305.050 Traffic Accident Studies and Reports.
Section 305.060 Driver Files To Be Maintained.
Section 305.070 Traffic Division To Submit Annual Traffic Safety Report.
Section 305.080 City Traffic Engineer.
Section 305.090 Emergency and Experimental Regulations.
There is established in the Police Department of this City a Traffic Division to be under the control of an officer of Police appointed by and directly responsible to the Chief of Police.
Cross Reference—Police department, ch. 200.
The Traffic Division with such aid as may be rendered by other members of the Police Department shall enforce the street traffic regulations of the City and all of the State vehicle laws applicable to street traffic in the City, to make arrests for traffic violations, to investigate accidents and to cooperate with the City Traffic Engineer and other officers of the City in the administration of the traffic laws and in developing ways and means to improve traffic conditions, and to carry out those duties specially imposed upon the division by this Title.
The Police Department Traffic Division 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.
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.
All such records and reports shall be public records.
It shall be the duty of the Traffic Division, assisted by other Police Officers of the 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.
Whenever the accidents at any particular location became numerous, the Traffic Division shall cooperate with the City Traffic Engineer in conducting studies of such accidents and determining remedial measures.
The Traffic Division 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.
The Police Department or the Traffic Division thereof shall maintain a suitable record of all traffic accidents, warnings, arrests, convictions, and complaints reported for each driver, which shall be filed alphabetically under the name of the driver concerned.
The number of traffic accidents, the number of persons killed, the number of persons injured, and other pertinent traffic accident data.
The number of traffic accidents investigated and other pertinent data on the safety activities of the Police.
The plans and recommendations of the Division for future traffic safety activities.
The office of City Traffic Engineer is established. The Chief of Police shall serve as City Traffic Engineer in addition to his other functions, and shall exercise the powers and duties with respect to traffic as provided in this Chapter.
The City Traffic Engineer shall determine the installation and proper timing and maintenance of traffic control devices, conduct analyses of traffic accidents and devise remedial measures, conduct 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.
The Chief of Police by and with the approval of the City Manager 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.
The City Traffic Engineer may test traffic control devices under actual conditions of traffic.

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