§ 70.37 REPORTS ARE CONFIDENTIAL.

   (A)   This section does not apply to accident reports filed by a law enforcement officer.

   (B)   All written accident reports made by drivers or owners of vehicles involved in accidents, as required in §70.35, shall be without prejudice to the individual so reporting, and shall be for the confidential use of the Town Marshal's Office or other governmental agencies having use of the records for accident prevention purposes. However, the Town Marshal may disclose the identity of a person involved in an accident when such identity is not otherwise known, or when such person denies his presence at such accident. No such report shall be used as evidence in any trial, civil or criminal, arising out of any accident, except that the Town Marshal shall furnish upon demand of any person who has, or claims to have, made a report or, upon demand of any court, a certificate showing that a specified accident report has or has not been made to the Town Marshal, solely to prove a compliance or a failure to comply with the requirements that such a report be made.

(Ord. 1981-6, passed 6-9-81)

§ 70.38 TOWN MARSHAL TO KEEP FILES OF ACCIDENT REPORTS.

   The Town Marshal's Office shall maintain a suitable system of filing traffic accident reports.

(Ord. 1981-6, passed 6-9-81)

§ 70.39 ANNUAL TRAFFIC SAFETY REPORT.

   The Town Marshal's Office shall annually prepare a traffic report which shall be filed with the Board of Trustees. Such report shall contain information on traffic matters in this town as follows:

   (A)   The number of traffic accidents, the number of persons killed, the number of persons injured, and other pertinent traffic accident data;

   (B)   The number of traffic accidents investigated and other Marshal's pertinent data on the safety activities of the Town Marshal's Office; and

   (C)   Any plans and recommendations of the Town Marshal for future traffic safety activities.

(Ord. 1981-6, passed 6-9-81)

VIOLATIONS

§ 70.50 RECORDS OF TRAFFIC VIOLATIONS.

   (A)   The Town Marshal's Office shall keep a record of all violations of the traffic ordinanceS of this town or of the state vehicle laws of which any person has been charged, together with a record of the final disposition of all such alleged offenses. This record shall be so maintained as to show all types of violations and the total of each. This record shall accumulate during at least a five-year period and from that time on the record shall be maintained complete for at least the most recent five-year period.

   (B)   All forms for records of violations and notices of violations shall be serially numbered. For each month and year, a written record shall be kept available to the public showing the disposal of all such forms.

   (C)   All such records and reports shall be public records.

(Ord. 1981-6, passed 6-9-81)

§ 70.51 DISPOSITION OF TRAFFIC FINES AND FORFEITURES.

   (A)   All fines or forfeitures collected upon conviction or upon the forfeiture of bail of any person charged with a violation of any of the provisions of this traffic code shall be paid into the town treasury and deposited in the General Fund.

   (B)   Failure, refusal, or neglect on the part of any judicial or other officer or employee receiving or having custody of any such fine or forfeiture, either before or after a deposit in the General Fund, to comply with the foregoing provisions of this section shall constitute misconduct in office and shall be grounds for removal therefrom.

(Ord. 1981-6, passed 6-9-81)

§ 70.52 TOWN ATTORNEY TO PROSECUTE VIOLATORS.

   The Town Attorney or his duly appointed deputy is authorized to prosecute all charges of violation of this traffic code.

(Ord. 1981-6, passed 6-9-81)