Except when authorized or directed under State law to immediately take a person before a magistrate for violation of any traffic laws, a police officer who halts a person for such violation, other than for the purpose of giving him a warning notice, and does not take such person into custody under arrest, shall take the name, address and operator's license number of such person, the registered number of the motor vehicle involved and such other pertinent information as may be necessary, and shall issue to such person in writing a traffic citation containing a notice to answer to the charge against him in the Municipal Court of this Municipality at a time not more than five days after such alleged violation, which time shall be specified in such citation. The officer, upon receiving the written promise of the alleged violator to answer as specified in the citation, shall release such person from custody.
(1974 Code Sec. 3-20)