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(A) The driver of a vehicle involved in an accident resulting in injury to or death of any person or property damage shall immediately by the quickest means of communication, give notice of the accident to the Police Department if the accident occurs within this city.
(‘67 Code, § 71.09)
(B) Every police officer who, in the regular course of duty, investigates a traffic accident, shall make a full and complete report of the investigation on a standard accident report form. All accident reports shall be public records.
(‘67 Code, § 70.13) (Ord. 11-1952, passed 9-2-52)
(C) The Police Department shall be authorized to charge a fee in the amount of $5 for each copy of an investigator’s report of accident that is furnished to any person authorized to receive the same.
(Ord. 27-1982, passed 9-14-82) Penalty, see § 70.99
The Police Department shall annually prepare a traffic report which shall be filed with the Mayor, Common Council, and Traffic Commission. This report shall include all information pertinent to the number of traffic accidents, accident trends, the number of accidents investigated, arrests made as a result of the investigation, the number of moving traffic violation arrests, the number of parking violation arrests, and other data on the traffic activities of the Department.
(‘67 Code, § 70.14) (Ord. 11-1952, passed 9-2-52)
IMPOUNDMENT OF VEHICLE
Members of the Police Department are hereby authorized to remove a vehicle from a street or highway to the nearest garage or other place of safety, or to a garage designated or maintained by the Police Department, or otherwise maintained by the city under the circumstances enumerated below.
(A) When any vehicle is left unattended upon any bridge, viaduct, or causeway, or in any tube or tunnel where the vehicle constitutes an obstruction to traffic.
(B) When a vehicle upon a highway is so disabled as to constitute an obstruction to traffic and the person or persons in charge of the vehicle are by reason of physical injury, or intoxication incapacitated to an extent so as to be unable to provide for its custody or removal.
(C) When any vehicle is left unattended upon a street and is so parked illegally as to constitute a definite hazard or obstruction to the normal movement of traffic.
(‘67 Code, § 70.44(A)) (Ord. 11-1952, passed 9-2-52)
(A) Whenever an officer removes a vehicle from a street as authorized in § 70.20 and the officer knows or is able to ascertain from the registration records in the vehicle the name and address of the owner thereof, the officer shall immediately give or cause to be given notice in writing to the owner of the fact of the removal and the reasons therefor and of the place to which the vehicle has been removed. In the event any vehicle is stored in a public garage, a copy of the notice shall be given to the proprietor of the garage.
(B) Whenever an officer removes a vehicle from a street under § 70.20 and does not know and is not able to ascertain the name of the owner, or for any other reason is unable to give the notice to the owner as provided in division (A) above, and in the event the vehicle is not returned to the owner within a period of three days, then and in that event the officer shall immediately send or cause to be sent written report of the removal by mail to the State Department whose duty it is to register motor vehicles, and shall file a copy of this notice with the proprietor of any public garage in which the vehicle may be stored. This notice shall include a complete description of the vehicle, the date, time, and place from which removed, the reasons for the removal, and name of the garage or place where the vehicle is stored.
(‘67 Code, § 70.44 (B),(C)) (Ord. 11-1952, passed 9-2-52)
TRAFFIC CITATIONS
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