The Chief of Police is hereby authorized and directed to appoint an officer of the Division of Police as Traffic Control Supervisor. Such officer appointee shall have recent theoretical instruction in traffic safety control and related matters and shall have practical experience in the application of traffic safety.
The Traffic Control Supervisor is hereby authorized to perform the following duties:
(a) To make and enforce regulations necessary to make effective the provisions of this Traffic Code and to make and enforce temporary regulations to cover emergencies or special conditions;
(b) To designate and maintain by appropriate devices, marks or lines upon the surface of the roadway, crosswalks, at intersections where in his or her opinion there is particular danger to pedestrians crossing the roadway, and at such other places as he or she may deem necessary;
(c) To establish safety zones and safety islands of such kind and character and at such places as he or she may deem necessary for the protection of pedestrians;
(d) To mark lanes for traffic on street pavements at such places as he or she may deem advisable, consistent with this Traffic Code;
(e) To determine the right and left side of laned streets by fixing and marking or designating the centerline of such streets;
(f) To establish temporarily a zone of quiet upon any street where a person is seriously ill if requested to do so by a written statement of at least one registered physician certifying to its necessity. Such temporary zone of quiet shall embrace all territory within a radius of 200 feet of the building occupied by the person named in the request of such physician. Such temporary zone of quiet and any other zone of quiet shall be so designated by placing at a conspicuous place in the street a sign or marking bearing the words "quiet zone".
(g) To declare any street or part thereof a "play street" and to place appropriate signs or devices in the roadway indicating and helping to protect the same;
(h) To determine the location of truck zones and to place and maintain appropriate signs indicating the same and stating the hours during which the provisions regarding truck zones shall be applicable.
(Ord. 1966-200. Passed 4-5-67.)
(i) To recommend to Council stop intersections, yield right-of-way streets and through streets or highways in conformity with Section 414.02. Prior to the submission of such recommendations to Council, notice may be given in a newspaper of general circulation in the City for a period of at least one week, if the giving of notice is deemed necessary by the Director of Safety. Recommendations in matters for which notice is given shall be filed in the office of the Clerk of Council for examination by all interested members of the public. The Traffic Control Supervisor shall take into consideration all objections made to such recommendations by interested parties. In the event of dissatisfaction by any person with the recommendations to be made to Council, notice thereof shall be filed with the Director. The Director shall schedule a hearing of such objections with the objecting party and with the Supervisor before the Traffic Safety Board, consisting of the Director of Safety, a Councilperson, as chosen by the President of Council, not involved in the matter before the Board, and a disinterested freeholder of the Municipality selected by the President of Council. Each member of the Board is to serve without compensation.
Such Board shall review the recommendations of the Supervisor, together with the objections thereto, within a period of sixty days and transmit its determination to the Safety and Transit Committee of Council, together with its report thereon. Such report may be in the form of an ordinance for action by Council, and if so submitted it shall be acted upon by Council within thirty days of the date of its submission.
The Board may hear objections to any of the matters referred to in divisions (a) through (h) of this section if anyone is aggrieved by the recommendations of the Supervisor. Rules may be promulgated by the Supervisor for the administrative conduct of matters before him or her, but such rules may be superseded by rules of the Board which is hereby authorized to regulate the administrative conduct of matters before the Supervisor as well as matters before the Board itself.
Any matter referred to the Supervisor by Council or the Mayor, with their suggestions and recommendations to the Board as herein provided, shall be acted upon within a period of sixty days; otherwise the recommendation received by such Supervisor from Council, or by the Board from the Supervisor, shall be deemed the recommendation of the Supervisor or the Board and the right of further consideration therein by either such official or agency shall be thereafter sustained.
(Ord. 1969-124. Passed 6-18-69.)