(A) Establishment. There is established a Traffic Commission.
(B) Composition. The Traffic Commission shall consist of the Head of the City Police Department Accident Investigation Division; the Chief of Police, or, in his absence, the Assistant Chief of Police; a member of the Common Council of the city chosen by the Council; the Corporation Counsel; the City Civil Engineer; a member appointed by the Mayor, with such member being a city resident and serving for a term of one year; and a member appointed by the Council, with such member being a city resident, and serving for a term of one year.
(C) Chairman. The members of the Traffic Commission shall annually elect one of its members to serve as the Commission's chairman.
(D) Compensation. The members of the Traffic Commission shall serve without compensation.
(E) Powers and duties. It shall be the duty of the Traffic Commission to coordinate traffic activities, carry on educational activities in traffic matters, supervise the preparation and publication of traffic reports, receive complaints having to do with traffic matters, and to recommend to the Common Council ways and means for improving traffic conditions and the administration and enforcement of traffic regulations.
(1) The Traffic Commission may determine and designate by proper signs, distances not exceeding 90 feet at places where the stopping of any vehicle would create an especially hazardous condition or would cause unusual delay to traffic.
(2) The Traffic Commission may make temporary rules regarding traffic or intersection control devices under actual conditions of traffic. No such temporary rule regulating traffic shall remain in effect for more than 30 days.
(Ord. 5289, passed 8-29-83)