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It shall be unlawful for the driver of any vehicle to disobey the instructions of any traffic sign or signal placed in view by the authority of the President and Board of Trustees of the village or in accordance with the laws of the state. All signs established by direction of the President and Board of Trustees of the village shall conform to the state standards for traffic signals.
(Prior Code, § 70.005) (Ord. 83, passed 7-7-1952) Penalty, see § 70.99
It shall be unlawful for any person to deface, injure, move or interfere with any official traffic sign or signal.
(Prior Code, § 70.006) (Ord. 83, passed 7-7-1952) Penalty, see § 70.99
TRAFFIC CODE ENFORCEMENT
The Chief of Police of the village shall cause parking violation notices to be printed in duplicate, which shall be numbered serially and shall be issued to members of the Police Department of the village, which members shall each execute receipts for those notices issued to him or her. Each member of the Department shall be accountable for the parking violation notices issued to him or her.
(Prior Code, § 74.001) (Ord. 74-002, passed 3-19-1974)
(A) A traffic violation notice shall be issued by a member of the Police Department of the village for every vehicle parked, stopped, permitted to stand, equipped, used, driven or operated in violation of the traffic code of the village. In case of a traffic violation involving a vehicle, if a police officer is able to find the driver or other person in charge thereof without leaving the immediate vicinity of said vehicle, said traffic violation notice shall be delivered to such person, but if the officer is unable to find the person driving or in charge of said vehicle in the immediate vicinity, he or she shall fasten or cause to be fastened said traffic violation notice upon the windshield, side window or cab of said vehicle in a place where the same is clearly visible to a person entering or driving or in charge of said vehicle.
(B) A member of the Police Department of the village issuing a traffic or parking violation notice shall, in writing, indicate on each traffic or parking violation notice issued by him or her the time and location and type of violation for which such traffic or parking violation notice is issued, the section of the code of the village violated, the type of vehicle involved in the violation, the state license number of said vehicle and, if known, the name and address and operator’s license number of the person to whom such state license was issued or who was responsible for the violation in question, and such other information as such member of the Police Department of the village may deem necessary or important.
(C) Every member of the Police Department of the village shall, upon issuing a notice of traffic or parking violation in the manner and form prescribed in this subchapter, in writing, identify himself or herself on such notice as the officer issuing the same and shall retain and deliver to his or her superior officer in the Police Department, or to such other person as may be designated by the Board of the village, a duplicate of such traffic or parking violation notice.
(Prior Code, § 74.002) (Ord. 74-002, passed 3-19-1974)
Whenever a vehicle is parked in violation of the provisions of this traffic code, the registered owner of the vehicle at the time of the violation, as well as the vehicle itself and the actual operator thereof, shall be presumed to have committed the violation and shall thereby be liable as set forth in this traffic code.
(Prior Code, § 74.003) (Ord. 74-002, passed 3-19-1974)
(A) Any vehicle parked or occupying any portion of any street or alley within the limits of the village in violation of any provision of this traffic code shall be and the same is hereby declared to be a nuisance, which shall be abated by any police officer by the following procedure:
(1) By placing a notice of traffic violation upon said vehicle as hereinabove set forth, which indicates the nature of the violation, such act being deemed under this provision of the code of the village to constitute impoundment of the vehicle; or
(2) By placing a notice of traffic or parking violation upon said vehicle as hereinabove set forth, and removing and conveying said vehicle to a vehicle pound.
(B) The determination of which of the two preceding methods of impoundment of a vehicle in violation of a provision of this traffic code is to be followed in a given situation shall rest in the discretion of the officer issuing said notice, in accordance with the policy set forth by the members of the Board of the village and the Chief of Police of the village.
(Prior Code, § 74.004) (Ord. 74-002, passed 3-19-1974)
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