Except when authorized or directed under state law to immediately take a person before any court for the violation of any traffic laws, a police officer who halts a person for such violation, other than for the purpose of giving him or her a warning or warning notice and does not take such person into custody under arrest, shall take the name, address and operator’s license number of the person, the registered number of the motor vehicle involved and such other pertinent information as may be necessary, and shall issue to him or her in writing on a form provided by the Police Department a traffic citation containing a notice to answer to the charge against him or her in the appropriate court of the state at a time specified in the citation.
(1984 Code, § 70.60) (Ord. O-34-67, passed 5-25-1967; Ord. O-15-05, passed 3-8-2005; Ord. O-07-16, passed 5-3-2016)