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PATROL DIVISION
It shall be the duty of the Patrol Division with such aid as may be rendered by other members of the Police Department to enforce the street traffic regulations of this city and all of the state vehicle laws applicable to street traffic in the city, to make arrests for traffic violations, to investigate traffic accidents and to cooperate with the Chief of Police and other officers of the city in the administration of the traffic laws and in developing ways and means to improve traffic conditions, and to carry out those duties specially imposed upon such division by this title and the traffic ordinances of this city.
('81 Code, § 10.08.020)
(A) The Patrol Division shall maintain a suitable system of filing traffic accident reports.
(B) Accident reports or cards referring to them shall be filed alphabetically by name.
(C) Such reports shall be available for the use and information of the Chief of Police.
('81 Code, § 10.08.040)
(A) The Patrol Division shall annually prepare a traffic report.
(B) Such a report shall contain information on traffic matters in this city as follows:
(1) The number of traffic accidents, the number of persons killed, the number of persons injured and other pertinent traffic accident data;
(2) The number of traffic accidents investigated and other pertinent data on the safety activities of the police;
(3) The plans and recommendations of the division for future traffic activities.
('81 Code, § 10.08.050)
(A) Established; compensation; chairman.
(1) There is established a Traffic Safety Committee to serve without compensation, consisting of the Chief of Police or his staff designee, the City Manager or his staff designee, the Public Works Director or his staff designee and other such persons as may be appointed by resolution of the City Council.
(2) The City Manager may appoint the chairman of the committee.
('81 Code, § 10.08.060) (Ord. 908, passed - -88)
(B) Duties. It shall be the duty of the Traffic Safety Committee to suggest the most practicable means for coordinating the activities of all officers and agencies of this city having authority with respect to the administration and enforcement of traffic regulations; to stimulate and assist in the preparation and publication of traffic reports; to receive complaints having to do with traffic matters; and to recommend to the legislative body of this city and to the chief of the Patrol Division and other city officials ways and means for improving traffic conditions and the administration and enforcement of traffic regulations.
('81 Code, § 10.08.070)
TRAFFIC-CONTROL DEVICES
(A) The City Engineer shall have the power and duty to place and maintain or cause to be placed and maintained official traffic-control devices when and as required to make effective the provisions of this title.
(B) Whenever the California Vehicle Code requires for the effectiveness of any provision thereof that traffic-control devices be installed to give notice to the public of the application of such law the City Engineer is authorized to install or cause to be installed the necessary devices subject to any limitations or restrictions set forth in the law applicable thereto.
(C) The City Engineer may also place and maintain or cause to be placed and maintained such additional traffic control devices as he may deem necessary or proper to regulate traffic or to guide or warn traffic, but he shall make such determination only upon the basis of traffic engineering principles and traffic investigations and in accordance with such standards, limitations, and rules as may be set forth in this title or resolution of the Council.
('81 Code, § 10.20.010)
Statutory reference:
Traffic-control devices, see Cal. Veh. Code §§ 21351 et seq. and §§ 21400 et seq.
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