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15-101. - Duty of the Police Department.#
It shall be the duty of the Police Department to enforce the traffic regulations of this City and all of the state vehicle laws applicable to street traffic in this City, to make arrests for traffic violations, to investigate accidents, to cooperate with other officers of the City in the administration of the traffic laws and in developing ways and means to improve traffic conditions and to carry out those duties specifically imposed.
15-102. - Records of Traffic Violations.#
The Police Department shall keep a record of all local violations of the Traffic Ordinances of the City or of the state vehicle laws of which any person has been charged. Such records shall be maintained as to show all types of violations and the total of each. Said records shall accumulate during at least a five (5) year period and from that time on the record shall be maintained complete for at least the most recent five (5) year period.
15-103. - Investigate Accidents.#
The Police Department shall investigate traffic accidents, arrest and assist in the prosecution of those persons charged with the violation of law causing or contributing to such accidents.
15-104. - Traffic Accident Studies.#
Whenever the accidents in any particular location become numerous, the Chief of Police, Public Works Director, and City Engineer shall conduct studies of such accidents and determine remedial measures.
15-105. - Traffic Accident Reports.#
(1)
The Police Department shall maintain a suitable system of filing accident reports. All such accident reports, or any cards referring to them, shall be filed in order by the date of occurrence. Such reports shall be available for the use and information of the Public Works Director and City Engineer.
(2)
The Police Department shall receive and properly file all accident reports made to it under state law or under the ordinances of this City, but all such accident reports made by drivers shall be for the confidential use of the Police Department or the Public Works Director and City Engineer, and no such report shall be made admissible in any civil or criminal proceedings, other than upon request of the court having jurisdiction to prove compliance with the laws requiring the making of any such report. (See Section 41-6-40, U.C.A. 1953)
15-106. - Driver's Files.#
The Police Department shall maintain a suitable record of all local traffic accidents, warnings, arrests, convictions, and complaints reported for each driver, which shall be filed alphabetically under the name of the driver concerned.
15-107. - Authority to Install Traffic Control Devices.#
The Chief of Police, Public Works Director, and as warranted, the City Engineer shall place and maintain all traffic control devices when and as required under the ordinances of this City to make effective the provisions of said ordinances, and may deem necessary to regulate, guide, or warn traffic under the Traffic Ordinances of this City. All signs so placed shall be and become the official location of such signs for Tremonton City.
15-108. - Emergency and Experimental Regulations.#
The Chief of Police, Public Works Director, and as warranted, the City Engineer are hereby empowered to make regulations necessary to make effective the provisions of the Traffic Ordinances of this City and to make and enforce temporary and experimental regulations to cover the emergency or special conditions. No such temporary or experimental regulations shall remain in effect for more than ninety (90) days.
15-109. - Designating Crosswalks, Establishing Safety Zones, Marking Traffic Lanes.#
The Chief of Police, Public Works Director, and as warranted, the City Engineer are hereby authorized: (1)
To designate and maintain, by appropriate devices, marks or lines upon the surface of the roadway, crosswalks at intersections where, in his opinion, there is particular danger to pedestrians crossing the roadway, and at such other places he may deem necessary.
(2)
To establish safety zones of such kind and character and at such places as he may deem necessary for the protection of pedestrians.
(3)
To mark lanes for traffic on street pavements at such places as he may deem advisable, consistent with the Traffic Ordinances of this City.
15-110. - Authority to Place and Obedience to Turning Marking.#
The Chief of Police, Public Works, and as warranted, the City Engineer are authorized to place islands, markers, or signs within or adjacent to intersections indicating the course to be traveled by vehicles turning at such intersections, and such course shall be traveled irrespective of any other provisions of this ordinance.
15-111. - No Standing, Stopping, or Parking near Hazardous or Congested Places.#
The Chief of Police, Public Works Director, and as warranted, the City Engineer are hereby authorized to determine and designate by proper signs, places not exceeding one hundred (100) feet in length in which stopping, standing or parking of vehicles would create an especially hazardous condition or would cause unusual delay in traffic.