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A. The police department shall maintain a suitable system of filing traffic accident reports. Accident reports or cards referring to them shall be filed alphabetically by location. Such reports shall be available for the use and information of the city transportation engineer.
B. The police department shall receive and properly file all accident reports made to it under state law or under the ordinances of the city, but all such accident reports made by drivers shall be for the confidential use of the police department and the city transportation engineer, and no such reports shall be admissible in any civil or criminal proceeding, other than upon the request of the court having jurisdiction to prove compliance with the laws requiring the making of any such report. (Prior code title 46, art. 2 § 64)
A. The police department shall maintain a suitable record of all local traffic accidents, warnings, arrests, convictions and complaints reported for each driver, which shall be filed alphabetically under the name of the driver concerned.
B. The traffic division shall study the cases of all the drivers charged with frequent or serious violations of the traffic laws or involved in frequent traffic accidents or any serious accident, shall attempt to discover the reason therefor, and shall take whatever steps are lawful and reasonable to prevent the same or to have the licenses of such persons suspended or revoked.
C. Such records shall accumulate during at least a five (5) year period and from that time on such records shall be maintained complete for at least the most recent five (5) year period. (Prior code title 46, art. 2 § 65)
The office of the city transportation engineer is established. The city transportation engineer shall be appointed by the mayor and shall exercise the powers and duties as provided by the ordinances of the city. The city transportation engineer shall be the city traffic engineer and shall exercise the powers and duties as prescribed by law. (Prior code title 46, art. 2 § 66)
A. The "Manual On Uniform Traffic Control Devices" for streets and highways, 1988 edition, as amended, is adopted by Salt Lake City as the ordinance rules and regulations of the city, three (3) copies of which shall be for use and examination of the public in the office of the city recorder. Said code establishes the standards of design and application of traffic control devices.
B. The city transportation engineer shall place and maintain any and all traffic control devices when and as needed, and shall implement the provisions of said manual in accordance with accepted highway engineering principles. (Ord. 3-95 § 1, 1995: prior code title 46, art. 2 § 67)
It is the general duty of the city transportation engineer to determine the installation and proper timing and maintenance of traffic control devices, to conduct engineering analyses of traffic accidents and to devise remedial measures, to conduct engineering investigations of traffic conditions and to cooperate with other city officials in the development of ways and means to improve traffic conditions, and to carry out the additional powers and duties imposed by ordinances of the city and as directed by the mayor. (Prior code title 46, art. 2 § 69)
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