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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
The Clerk-Treasurer shall provide in triplicate suitable serially numbered forms for notifying violators to appear and answer to charges of violating traffic laws and ordinances. These forms shall be issued to and receipted for by the Chief of Police or other person acting for him. The Clerk-Treasurer shall, each month, report to the Mayor the disposal made by the Police Department of all triplicate forms issued to them. For this purpose the Clerk-Treasurer or his representative shall have access to the necessary records of the Police Department, the Court with jurisdiction to hear traffic violation cases, and the Ordinance Violations Bureau. The reports shall be public records.
(‘67 Code, § 70.35) (Ord. 11-1952, passed 9-2-52; Am. Ord. 14-2009, passed 5-12-09)
Except when authorized or directed under state law to immediately take a person arrested for a violation of any of the traffic laws before a magistrate, any police officer upon making a citation for violation of ordinances of the city, shall take the name, address, and operator’s license number of the alleged violator, and the registered number of the motor vehicle involved. The officer shall issue to the violator in writing on a form provided by the Clerk- Treasurer a notice to answer to the charge against him at a place and at a time to be specified in the notice.
(‘67 Code, § 70.36) (Ord. 11-1952, passed 9-2-52)
In the event any person fails to comply with a notice given to the person or attached to a vehicle, or fails to make appearance pursuant to a summons directing an appearance in the appropriate court or the Ordinance Violations Bureau, civil proceedings for contempt of court may be instituted by the proper city officer.
(‘67 Code, § 70.41) (Ord. 11-1952, passed 9-2-52; Am. Ord. 14-2009, passed 5-12-09)
(A) All fines or forfeitures collected upon conviction of any person charged with a violation of any of the provisions of this title shall be paid into the City Treasury and deposited in the General Fund.
(‘67 Code, § 70.42)
(B) Failure, refusal, or neglect on the part of any judicial or other officer or employee receiving or having custody of any fine or forfeiture, either before or after a deposit in the General Fund, to comply with division (A) above, shall constitute misconduct in office and shall be grounds for removal therefrom.
(‘67 Code, § 70.43)
(Ord. 11-1952, passed 9-2-52)
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