(A) Local records.
(1) Every police officer, upon issuing a traffic citation to an alleged violator of any provision of the motor vehicle laws of the state or any traffic law of the town, shall deposit the original and a duplicate copy of the citation with his or her immediate superior officer, who shall cause the original to be delivered to the Municipal Court.
(2) Upon the filing of the original citation in the Municipal Court, the citation may be disposed of only by trial in the court or by other official action by a judge of the court, including forfeiture of bail or by payment of a fine.
(3) The County Sheriff shall maintain a record of all warrants issued by the Municipal Court which are delivered to the Police Department for service, and of the final disposition of the warrants.
(4) No member of the County Sheriff’s Department or other officer or public employee shall dispose of, alter or deface a traffic citation or any copy thereof, or the record of the issuance or disposition of any traffic citation, complaint or warrant, in a manner other than as required in this section.
(B) Records to state.
(1) The Municipal Court Clerk shall keep a record of every traffic citation deposited with or presented to the court and shall keep a record of every official action by the court or its Traffic Violations Bureau in reference thereto, including, but not limited to, a record of every conviction, forfeiture of bail, judgment of acquittal and the amount of fine or forfeiture.
(2) Within ten days after the conviction or forfeiture of bail of a person upon a charge of violating any provision of this traffic code or other law regulating the operation of vehicles on highways, the Municipal Judge or Clerk of the Court in which the conviction was had or bail was forfeited shall prepare and immediately forward to the state’s Department of Public Safety a certified abstract of the court record of the case. An abstract need not be made of any conviction involving the illegal parking or standing of a vehicle.
(3) The abstract must be made upon a form furnished by the state’s Department of Public Safety and shall include the name and address of the party charged, the number of his or her driver’s license, the registration number of the vehicle involved, the nature of the offense, the date of hearing, the plea, the judgment, whether bail was forfeited and the amount of the fine or forfeiture.
(Prior Code, § 6-7-3)