(A) It shall be the duty of the Town Marshal to enforce the street traffic regulations of the town and the state motor vehicle laws applicable to street traffic in this town, to make arrests for traffic violations, to investigate accidents, and to carry out the duties especially imposed upon him or her by this title and other ordinances of the town.
(B) (1) The Town Marshal shall keep a record of all violations of the traffic ordinances of the town or of the state vehicle laws of which any person has been charged or an alleged offense, together with a record of the final disposition of all alleged cases.
(2) All such records and reports shall be public record.
(C) The Town Marshal shall maintain a suitable system of filing traffic accident reports, accident reports, or cards referring to them shall be filed alphabetically by location. Such report shall be available for the use and information of the Town Traffic Engineer.
(D) The Town Marshal 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.
(E) The Town Marshal shall annually prepare a traffic report which shall be filed with the Mayor. Such report shall contain information on traffic matters in this town as follows:
(1) The number of traffic accidents, the number of persons killed, the number of persons injured, and other pertinent traffic accident data;
(2) The number of traffic accidents investigated and other pertinent data on the safety activities of the police; and
(3) The plans and recommendations of the Department for future traffic safety activities.
(F) (1) The office of Town Traffic Engineer is hereby established. The Town Engineer shall serve as Town Traffic Engineer in addition to his or her other functions, and shall exercise the powers and duties with respect to traffic as provided in this title.
(2) It shall be the general duty of the Town Traffic Engineer to determine the installation and maintenance of traffic control devices, to conduct engineering analysis of traffic accidents and devise remedial measures, to conduct engineering investigations of traffic conditions, and to cooperate with other town officials in the development of ways and means to improve traffic conditions, and to carry out additional powers and duties imposed by ordinances of this town.
(Ord. 107, passed 5-18-1962)