Except when authorized or directed under State law to immediately take a person before a magistrate for the violation of any of the provisions of this Traffic Code or other traffic laws, a police officer who halts a person for such violation other than for the purpose of giving him a warning notice and does not take such person into custody under arrest, shall issue to him, in writing, on a form provided by the City, a traffic citation containing a notice to answer to the charge against him in the Police Court at a time, at least five days after such alleged violation, to be specified in such citation. The officer, upon receiving the written promise of the alleged violator to answer as specified in the citation, shall release such person from custody.
(1965 Code §13-100)