(A) Issuance.
(1) The Chief of Police is hereby authorized and directed to supply police officers with citation tags in sets, each set consisting of an original and at least two duplicate copies, for the purpose of giving notice to persons violating any provision of this traffic code.
(2) Notice may be given by delivering the tags to the violator or by affixing it to the vehicle involved in the violation.
(3) Each citation tag shall direct the violator to appear and to present such tag at a designated place on or before a date and hour specified thereon. Each tag shall bear the registration number of the vehicle.
(4) Nothing in this section shall be construed to abridge the power of a police officer to arrest any violator and take him or her into custody.
(5) The town’s Board of Trustees may require that the police officers use citation tags furnished by the Finance Department and that such tags are serially numbered, and may regulate the use and handling of the citation tags.
(Prior Code, § 15-119)
(B) Failure to obey citation. It is unlawful and an offense for any person to violate his or her written promise to appear, given to an officer upon the issuance of a traffic citation regardless of the disposition of the charge for which citation was originally issued.
(Prior Code, § 15-120)
(C) Failure to comply with traffic citations attached to parked vehicle. If a violator of the restrictions on stopping, standing or parking under the traffic laws or ordinances does not appear in response to a traffic citation affixed to such motor vehicle by the court date, a warrant of arrest may be issued. On any occasion where two or more such traffic citations have been affixed on the same motor vehicle and the traffic citations have been disregarded, a warrant of arrest may be issued without sending the letter provided in this section.
(Prior Code, § 15-121)
(D) Illegal cancellation of traffic citations. It is unlawful for any person to cancel or solicit the cancellation of any traffic citation in any manner other than is provided by this chapter.
(Prior Code, § 15-122)
(E) Disposition and records of traffic citations, warrants and complaints.
(1) Every police officer upon issuing a traffic citation to an alleged violator of any provision of the motor vehicle laws of the state or any traffic law of the town shall deposit the original and a duplicate copy of the citation with his or her immediate superior officer, who shall cause the original to be delivered to the Municipal Court.
(2) Upon the filing of the original citation in the Municipal Court, the citation may be disposed of only by trial in the court or by other official action by a Judge of the Court, including forfeiture of bail or by payment of a fine.
(3) The Chief of Police shall maintain a record of all warrants issued by the Municipal Court which are delivered to the Police Department for service and of the final disposition of the warrants.
(4) No member of the Police Department or other officer or public employee shall dispose of, alter or deface a traffic citation or any copy thereof, or the record of the issuance or disposition of any traffic citation, complaint or warrant, in a manner other than as required in this chapter.
(Prior Code, § 15-123)
Penalty, see § 70.99