Except when authorized or directed under the state law to immediately take a person arrested for a violation of any traffic law before a magistrate, any police officer, upon making an arrest for violation of the state traffic laws, this chapter, or other traffic ordinances of this town, shall take the name, address, and operator's license number of the alleged violator and the registered number of the motor vehicle involved, shall issue to him in writing, on the form provided by the Clerk-Treasurer, pursuant to § 70.05 a notice to answer to the charge against him at a place and at a time at least five days after such arrest to be specified in the notice and forthwith release the person arrested from custody.
(Ord. 534, passed 9-16-87)