(A) Except when authorized or directed under state law to immediately take a person arrested for the violation of any traffic laws before a magistrate, a police officer, on making the arrest for violation of the state traffic laws, this chapter, or other traffic ordinances of the city, shall take the violator’s name, address, operator’s license number and the registration number of the motor vehicle involved, and issue to him or her, in writing on a form provided by the Board of Public Works and Safety, a notice to answer to the charges against him or her within 48 hours, during business hours and at a place specified in the notice. The officer upon being given the written promise of the alleged violator to answer as specified in the notice, shall release him or her from custody. The officer shall deliver 1 copy of the notice to the commanding officer of the Traffic Bureau and 1 copy to the Clerk of the city court. Out-of-state violators must accompany the police officer to the police station to answer the charge at the time of the violation.
(B) Any person who violates his or her written promise to appear given to any officer on an arrest for any traffic violation shall be guilty of a punishable offense regardless of the disposition of the charge of which he or she was originally charged.
(Prior Code, § 70.41) Penalty, see § 70.99