(A) The city hereby authorizes the issuance of administrative citations for traffic offenses designated at M.S. § 169.999, Subdivision 1(b)(1), (2) and (3), as it may be amended from time to time.
(B) The city hereby sets the fine for committing an administrative traffic violation designated by M.S. § 169.999, as it may be amended from time to time, and this section at the amount designated by M.S. § 169.999, Subdivision 5, as it may be amended from time to time.
(C) The city hereby directs that only licensed city peace officers may issue administrative traffic citations authorized by this section.
(D) The city hereby directs that no city peace officer may issue an administrative traffic citation in violation of M.S. § 169.999, as it may be amended from time to time.
(E) The city hereby directs that no administrative traffic citation authorized by this section may be issued to a holder of a commercial driver’s license or the driver of a commercial vehicle in which the administrative violation was committed.
(F) The city hereby directs the appointment of a neutral third party to hear and rule on challenges to administrative traffic citations authorized by this section. Such appointment may be renewed annually at the first meeting of the year as all other Council appointments, or move immediately as the Council directs, in its sole, reasonable discretion.
(G) The city hereby adopts the uniform administrative traffic citation form prescribed by the Commissioner of Public Safety.
(H) The city hereby authorizes city staff to create materials as necessary to supplement the uniform administrative traffic citation to provide recipients of an administrative traffic citation with information related, but not limited to, the recipient’s right to challenge the citation, the city’s process for handling challenges to administrative traffic citations, the location, dates and times designated to hear traffic citation challenges, the process for paying a traffic citation and the effect of an administrative traffic citation on a recipient’s driving record.
(I) City staff is hereby directed to inform the Commissioner of Public Safety of the passage of this section.
(J) City staff is hereby directed to separately account for administrative traffic citations authorized by this section in city financial reports, summaries and audits in keeping with common accounting practices and standards.
(K) City staff is hereby directed to designate a special fund for the portion of administrative traffic fines that must be spent on law enforcement purposes, in keeping with common accounting practice and standards, and to report annually, or as otherwise directed by Council, to the City Council on the fund.
(Res. 12-21-09, passed 12-21-2009)