Chapter 11.08
ENFORCEMENT

Sections:

11.08.010    Duty of police department.

11.08.020    Board of traffic violations.

11.08.030    Police department to investigate accidents.

11.08.040    Authority of police and fire department officials.

11.08.050    Obedience to police and fire department officials.

11.08.010 Duty of police department.

It shall be the duty of the police department to enforce street and highway traffic ordinances and regulations of this municipality and all of the state motor vehicle laws applicable to street and highway traffic in this municipality, to make arrests for traffic violations, to investigate accidents and to carry out those duties especially imposed upon the department by this title. (Ord. 73-57 § 3 (part), 1973.)

11.08.020 Board of traffic violations.

A.    The police department, or the traffic division thereof, shall keep a record of all moving violations of these traffic ordinances or the state motor vehicle laws of which any person has been charged. Such records shall be so maintained as to show all such types of moving violations and the total of each. The records shall accumulate during at least a five-year period and from that time on the records shall be maintained for at least the most recent five-year period.

B.    All forms for records of the abovementioned violations and notices of the violations shall be serially numbered. For each month and year a written record shall be kept available to the public, showing the disposal of all such forms.

(Ord. 73-57 § 3 (part), 1973.)

11.08.030 Police department to investigate accidents.

It shall be the duty of the police officers of the department, to investigate traffic accidents and to arrest or cite and to assist in the prosecution of those persons charged with violations of law causing or contributing to such accidents. (Ord. 73-57 § 3 (part), 1973.)

11.08.040 Authority of police and fire department officials.

A.    It shall be the duty of the officers of the police department and such officers as are assigned by the chief of police to enforce all municipal traffic regulations and ordinances and all of the state motor vehicle laws applicable to street and highway traffic in this municipality.

B.    Officers of the police department and such officers as are assigned by the chief of police are authorized to direct all traffic by voice, hand, or signal in conformance with traffic laws; provided that, in the event of fire or other emergency, or to expedite traffic or safeguard pedestrians, officers of the police department may direct traffic as conditions may require notwithstanding the provisions of the traffic laws.

C.    Officers of the fire department, when at the scene of a fire, may direct or assist the police in directing traffic thereat or in the immediate vicinity.

(Ord. 73-57 § 3 (part), 1973.)

11.08.050 Obedience to police and fire department officials.

No person shall wilfully fail or refuse to comply with any lawful order or direction of a police or fire department officer. (Ord. 73-57 § 3 (part), 1973.)