(a) Established. There is hereby reestablished and created a Traffic Commission. The Traffic Commission shall be composed of the City Manager, the Superintendent of Streets, the City Engineer, the Chief of the Police Department and the Chief of the Fire Department. Their terms, as members of the Traffic Commission, shall be coextensive with their respective terms of office. The City Manager shall be chairman. The Traffic Commission shall adopt rules of procedure and keep a record of its official proceedings.
(b) Powers; Orders. The Traffic Commission shall have the power to regulate, restrict, or prohibit traffic, parking, loading zones, one-way streets, through streets and pedestrian use of streets and to classify streets as to weight, upon any and all streets, which have not been otherwise expressly regulated or restricted by ordinance provided that action of the Traffic Commission shall be taken by orders passed by the Traffic Commission at a regular or special meeting and made of record therein. Every such order of the Traffic Commission, except for emergencies as hereinafter provided, shall not take effect for a period of fifteen days from the passage of such order of the Commission. Copies of such orders shall be filed in the office of the Chief of Police and furnished to members of Council. If Council fails to rescind, modify, change or stay the execution of such order within fifteen days, the order shall be immediately put into effect; provided that such orders shall take effect only upon the erection or placement of the proper signal, sign or marking indicating the order so adopted.
In the case of emergencies, the Traffic Commission may declare such emergency upon the official record of the Commission, and place such order in effect immediately, subject to review of Council in the fifteen-day period provided, at which time such order may be rescinded, modified, changed or stayed.
(Ord. 93-20. Passed 8-19-93.)