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)