Chapter 10.08
ADMINISTRATION
Sections:
10.08.020 Traffic division – Officers.
10.08.030 Traffic division – Duties.
10.08.040 Traffic-control device installation.
10.08.050 Engineer – Designated.
10.08.010 Enforcement.
Subject to the administrative supervision of the city administrator, the public works director and the police chief shall have the authority and responsibility for administering and enforcing this title, as provided in this chapter. (Prior code §13.3).
10.08.020 Traffic division – Officers.
The police chief shall designate an officer of his department as head of a staff division known as the traffic division. The police chief may detail other officers to duty in the traffic division whenever he deems it necessary. (Prior code §13.4).
10.08.030 Traffic division – Duties.
It shall be the duty of the traffic division to:
A. Supervise and conduct training of all police officers in traffic administration;
B. Supervise through regular command channels, the department’s enforcement of traffic laws, ordinances and regulations;
C. Keep the police chief informed of the status of traffic administration at all times;
D. Coordinate the police department’s traffic administration activities with those of the public works department, generally, and with the traffic engineer, specifically;
E. Supervise the recording and operate the filing and analysis of traffic accident reports, and prepare an annual traffic safety report containing conventional statistics on the subject. (Prior code §13.5).
10.08.040 Traffic-control device installation.
Subject to the administrative approval of the city administrator, the public works director shall install and maintain traffic-control devices, and as required, remove, relocate or discontinue such devices. (Prior code §13.6).
10.08.050 Engineer – Designated.
The public works director shall designate the city engineer or another qualified person as the traffic engineer. (Prior code §13.7).
10.08.060 Engineer – Duties.
It shall be the duty and authority of the traffic engineer, in addition to his other duties, to:
A. Specify and supervise gathering, recording, analysis and use of data pertaining to the regulation of traffic and parking and to analyze traffic accident data;
B. Coordinate concerned activities of the public works department with those of the police department’s traffic division;
C. Use modern traffic engineering methods to determine and plan the location and application of the following traffic-control devices and regulations:
1. Days and hours of operation and time-phasing of traffic signals,
2. Designation of streets in which commercial vehicle use will be prohibited or restricted,
3. Guide, lane and space markings,
4. Loading zones,
5. No-parking zones,
6. Prohibited parking,
7. Regulation or prohibition of parking adjacent to public buildings and on any off-street public property,
8. Stop signs,
9. Time limit parking restrictions,
10. Truck routes,
11. Handicapped parking spaces,
12. Restricted parking,
13. Approval of a traffic plan or design prior to construction or improvement when the traffic plan or design is not otherwise to be considered by the City Council. (Ord. 1893 §1, 2016; Ord. 1266 §1(part), 1985; Ord. 936 (part), 1977: prior code §13.8).