Providing the Administration and Enforcement of the Regulations Governing Traffic upon Public Streets, Establishing Traffic Engineer, A Traffic Bureau

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Section 9. POLICE TO INVESTIGATE ACCIDENTS AND RECEIVE ADCIDENT REPORTS. (a) It shall be the duty of the traffic bureau to investigate traffic accidents andto arrest and obtain prosecution of those persons guilty of violations of law causing or con- tributing to such accidents. (b) Said bureau shall maintain a suitable system of filing traffic accident reports. Accident reports or cards referring to them shall be filed alphabetically by location. Such reports shall be available for the use and information of the city traffic engineer. (c) Whenever the accidents at any particular location become numerous, said bureau shall cooperate with the city traffic engineer in conducting studies of such accidents and such loc- ations and determining remedial measures. (d) Said bureau shall receive and properly file all accident reports made to it under state law or under any ordinance of this city, but all such accident reports shall be for the confidential use of the police department and the city traffic engineer, and. no such report shall be admissible in any civil or criminal proceeding other than upon request of any person making such report or upon request of the court having jurisdiction to prove a compliance with the laws requiring the making of any such report. Section 10. TRAFFIC BUREAU TO KEEP AND USE A DRIVER FILE (a) The traffic bureau shall maintain a suitable record of all traffic accidents, warnings, arrests, convictions, and complaints, in which the same shall be filed alphabetically under the name of the driver concerned. (b) Said bureau shall study the cases of all the drivers charged with frequent of serious violations of the traffic laws or frequently involved in traffic accidents or any serious acci- dent, and shall attempt to discover the reasons therefor, and shall take whatever steps are law- ful and reasonable to prevent the same or have the operator's licenses of such persons suspend- ed or revoked. (c) Said records shall accumulate until a five -year period is covered and thereafter such records shall be maintained complete for the most recent five -year period. Section 11, TRAFFIC BUREAU TO SUBMIT ANNUAL TRAFFIC SAFETY REPORT. The traffic division shall annually prepare a traffic report to contain information on traffic matters inthis city as follows: 1. The number of traffic accidents, the number of persons killed or injured and. other pertinent traffic accident data; 2. The number of traffic accidents investigated, the number of drivers with bad records interrogated, and other pertinent data on the safety activity of the police; 3. The plans and recommendations of the division for future traffic law enforcement act- ivities. Section 12, TRAFFIC BUREAU TO DESIGNATE PENNANTS FOR FT?MERAL PROCESSIONS. The traffic bureau shall designate a type of pennant to be displayed to identify the vehicles in furneral processions. ARTICLE IV Duties of City Traffic Engineer. Section 13, OFFICIAL TRAFFIC CONTROL DEVICES. (a) The city traffic engineer shall place and maintain traffic control devices when and as required under the traffic ordinances of this city to make effective the provisions of said ordinances, and may place and maintain such additional traffic control devices as he may deem necessary to regulate traffic under the traffic ordinances of this city or under state law, or to guide or warn the operators of vehicles and or pedestrians. (b) All traffic control devices shall conform insofar as practicable to the manual and specifications most recentliy promulgated by the National Conference on Street and Highway Safe- ty, and resolutions adopted by the common council of this city. All traffic control devices so erected and not inconsistent with the provisions of state law or this ordinance shall be official traffic control devices. 3.