(A) Citation tags.
(1) The County Sheriff is hereby authorized and directed to supply police officers with citation tags in sets, each set consisting of an original and at least two duplicate copies, for the purpose of giving notice to persons violating any provision of this traffic code. The town’s Board of Trustees may require that the police officers use citation tags furnished by the Finance Department and that such tags are serially numbered and may regulate the use and handling of the citation tags.
(2) Notice may be given by delivering the tags to the violator or by affixing it to the vehicle involved in the violation.
(3) Each citation tag shall direct the violator to appear and to present such tag at a designated place on or before a date and hour specified thereon. Each tag shall bear the registration number of the vehicle.
(4) Nothing in this division (A) shall be construed to abridge the power of a police officer to arrest any violator and take him or her into custody.
(B) Failure to obey citation.
(1) Generally. It is unlawful and an offense for any person to violate his or her written promise to appear, given to an officer upon the issuance of a traffic citation, regardless of the disposition of the charge for which citation was originally issued.
(2) Parked vehicle. If a violator of the restrictions on stopping, standing or parking under the traffic laws or ordinances does not appear in response to a traffic citation affixed to such motor vehicle within a period of five days, the Clerk of the Municipal Court may send to the owner of the motor vehicle to which the traffic citation was affixed a letter informing him or her of the violation and warning him that in the event such letter is disregarded for a period of five days, a warrant of arrest may be issued. On any occasion where two or more such traffic citations have been affixed on the same motor vehicle and the traffic citations have been disregarded, a warrant of arrest may be issued without sending the letter provided in this division (B)(2).
(C) Illegal cancellation of citations. It is unlawful for any person to cancel or solicit the cancellation of any traffic citation in any manner other than is provided by this chapter.
(Prior Code, § 6-7-2) Penalty, see § 70.99