Ordinance 74-26 Traffic Regulations
An ordinance establishing Traffic regulations for the City of Horn Lake, Mississippi in accordance with the provisions of Section 63-3-209 of the Mississippi Code 1972 Annotated with the provisions of the uniform Highway Traffic Law Rules of the Road.
Be it resolved by the Mayor and Board of Aldermen of the City of Horn Lake, Mississippi:
Traffic Regulations for City of Horn Lake, Mississippi
This ordinance may be known and cited as the Traffic Regulations for the City of Horn Lake, Mississippi.
The following words and phrases when used in this chapter shall for the purpose of this chapter have the meanings respectively ascribed t them in this section. Whenever any words and phrases are not defined herein but are defined in the state laws regulating the operation of vehicles, any such definition shall be deemed to apply to such words and phrases used herein.
Authorized Emergency Vehicle: Vehicles of the fire department (fire patrol), police vehicles and such ambulances and emergency vehicles of municipal departments or public service corporations as are designed or authorized by the Chief of Police.
Bicycle: Every device propelled by human power upon which any person may ride, having two (2) tandem wheels either of which is more than twenty (20) inches in diameter.
Central Business District: The territory contiguous to and including a highway when within any six hundred (600) feet along such highway there are buildings in use for business or industrial purposes, including but not limited to hotels, banks, or office buildings, railroad stations and public buildings which occupy at least three hundred (300) feet of frontage on one side or three hundred (300) feet collectively on both sides of the highway.
Commercial Vehicle: Every vehicle designed, maintained, or used primarily for the transportation of property.
Controlled-Access Highway: Every highway, street or roadway in respect to which owners or occupants of abutting lands and other persons have no legal right of access to or from the same except at such points only and in such manner as may be determined by the public authority having jurisdiction over such highway, street or roadway.
Crosswalk: (a) That part of a roadway at an intersection included within the connections of the lateral lines of the sidewalks on opposite sides of the highway measured from the curbs, or in the absence of curbs from the edges of the traversable roadway. (b) Any portion of a roadway at an intersection or elsewhere distinctly indicated for pedestrians crossing by lines or other markings on the surface.
Curb Loading Zone: A space adjacent to a curb reserved for the exclusive use of vehicles during the loading or unloading of passengers or materials.
Driver: Every person who drives or is in actual physical control of a vehicle.
Freight Curb Loading Zone: A space adjacent to a curb for the exclusive use of vehicles during the loading or unloading of freight.
Highways: The entire width between the boundary lines of every way publicly maintained when any part thereof is open to the use of public for purposes of vehicular travel.
Intersection: (a) The area embraced within the prolongation or connection of the lateral curb lines, or if none, then the lateral boundary lines of the roadways of two (2) highways which join one another at, or approximately at right angles, or the area within which vehicles traveling upon different highways joining at any other angle may come in conflict. (b) Where a highway includes two (2) roadways thirty (30) feet or more apart, than every crossing of each roadway of such divided highway by an intersecting highway shall be regarded as a separate intersection. In the event such intersecting highway also includes two (2) roadways shall be regarded as a separate intersection.
Laned Roadway: A roadway which is divided into two (2) or more clearly marked lanes for vehicular traffic.
Motor Vehicle: Every vehicle which is self-propelled and every vehicle, which propelled by electric power obtained from overhead trolley wires, but not operated upon rails.
Motorcycle: Every motor vehicle having a seat or saddle for the use of the rider and designed to travel on not more than three (3) wheels in contact with the ground, but excluding a tractor.
Official Time Standard: Whenever certain hours are named herein they shall mean standard time or daylight-saving time as may be in current use in the city.
Official Traffic-Control Devices: All signs, signals, markings and devices not inconsistent with this chapter placed or erected by authority of a public body or official having jurisdiction, for the purpose of regulating, warning or guiding traffic.
Park or parking: The standing of a vehicle, whether occupied or not, otherwise than temporarily for the purpose of and while actually engaging in loading or unloading merchandise or passengers.
Passenger Curb Loading Zone: A place adjacent to a curb reserved for the exclusive use of vehicles during the loading and unloading of passengers.
Pedestrian: Any person on foot.
Person: Every natural person, firm co partnership, association or corporation.
Police Officer: Every officer of the municipal police department or any officer authorized to direct or regulate traffic or to make arrests for violations of traffic regulations. And/or make physical arrest for misdemeanors and felonies.
Private Road or Driveway: Every way or place in private ownership and used for vehicular travel by the owner and those having express or implied permission from the owner but not by other persons.
Railroad: A carrier of persons or property upon cars operated upon stationary rails.
Railroad Train: A steam engine, electric, diesel or other motor, with or without cars compelled thereto, operated upon rails.
Residence District: The territory contiguous to and including a highway not comprising a business district when the property on such highway for a distance of three hundred (300) feet or more is in the main improved wit residences or residences and buildings in use for business.
Right-of-Way: The privilege of the immediate use of the roadway.
Roadway: That portion of a highway improved, designed or ordinarily used for vehicular travel, exclusive of the berm or shoulder. In the event a highway includes two (2) or more separate roadways the term “roadway” as used herein shall refer to any such roadway separately but not to all such roadways collectively.
Safety Zone: The area or space officially set apart within a roadway for the exclusive use of pedestrians and which is protected or is so marked or indicated by adequate signs as to be plainly visible at all times while set apart as a safety zone.
Sidewalk: That portion of a street between the curb lines, or the lateral lines of a roadway, and the adjacent property lines, intended for use of pedestrians.
Stand or Standing: Means of halting of a vehicle, whether occupied or not, otherwise than for the purpose of a while actually engaged in receiving or discharging passengers.
Stop: When required means complete cessation from movement.
Street or Highway: The entire width between the boundary lines of every way publicity maintained when any part thereof is open to the use of the public for purposes of vehicular travel.
Through highway: Every highway or portion thereof on which vehicular traffic is given preferential right-of-way, and at the entrances to which vehicular traffic from intersecting highways is required by law to yield right-of-way to vehicles on such through highway in obedience in either a stop sign or yield sign, when such signs are erected as provided in this chapter.
Traffic: Pedestrians, ridden or herded animals, vehicles and other conveyances either singly or together while using any highway for purposes of travel.
Traffic-Control Signal: Any device, whether manually, electrically or mechanically operated, by which traffic is alternately directed to stop and to proceed. Or to direct traffic in any specific direction.
Traffic Division: The traffic division of the police department of this city, or in the event a traffic division is not established, then said term whenever used herein shall be deemed to refer to the police department of this city.
Vehicle: Every device in, upon or by which any person or property is or may be transported or drawn upon a highway, excepting devices mover by human power or used exclusively upon stationary rails or tracts.
There is hereby established in the police department of this city a traffic division to be under the control of the Chief of Police or an officer of police appointed by and directly responsible to the Chief of Police.
It shall be the duty of the traffic division with such aid as may be rendered by other members of the police department to enforce the street 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 and to cooperate with the city traffic safety coordinator and 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 specially imposed upon said division by this chapter and the other traffic ordinances of this city.
(a) The police department of the traffic division thereof shall keep a record of all violations of the traffic ordinances of this city or of the state vehicle laws of which any person has been charged, together with a record of the final disposition of all such alleged offenses. Such record shall be so maintained as to show all types of violations and the total of each. Said record shall accumulate during at least a five (5) year period.
(b) All forms for records of violations and notices of violations shall be serially numbered. For each month and a year a written record shall be kept available to the public showing the disposal of all such forms.
(c) All such records and reports shall be public records.
It shall be the duty of the traffic division, assisted by other police officers of the department, to investigate traffic accidents, to arrest and to assist in the prosecution of those persons charged with violations of law causing or contributing to such accidents.
Whenever the accidents at any particular location become numerous, the traffic division shall cooperate with the traffic safety coordinator in conducting these studies of such accidents and determining remedial measures.
The traffic division 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 traffic safety coordinator.
(a) The police department or the traffic division thereof shall maintain a suitable record of all traffic accidents, warnings, arrests, convictions and complaints reported for each driver, which shall be files alphabetically under the name of the driver concerned.
(b) Said division shall study the cases of all the drivers charged with frequent or serious violations of the traffic laws or involved in frequent traffic accidents or any serious accident, and shall attempt to discover the reasons therefore and shall attempt to discover the reasons therefore and shall take whatever steps are lawful and reasonable to prevent the same or to have the licenses of such persons suspended or revoked.
(c) Such records shall accumulate during at least a five (5) year period and from that time on such records shall be maintained complete for at least the most recent five (5) year period.
The traffic division shall annually prepare a traffic report, which shall be files with the Board of Aldermen and Mayor. Such reports shall contain information on traffic matters in this city as follows:
(a) The number of traffic accidents, the number of persons killed, the number of persons injured, and other pertinent traffic accident data;
(b) The number of traffic accidents investigated and other pertinent data on the safety activities of the police;
(c) The plans and recommendations of the division for future traffic safety activities.
The traffic division shall designate a type of pennant or other identifying insignia to be displayed upon, or other method to be employed to identify, the vehicles in funeral procession.
(a) The Chief of Police of the city is hereby appointed as Traffic Safety Coordinator. He shall exercise the powers and duties as provided in this chapter and in the traffic ordinances of this city.
(b) It shall be the general duty of the Traffic Safety Coordinator to determine the installation and proper timing and maintenance of traffic-control devices, to conduct engineering analyses of traffic accidents and to devise remedial measures, to conduct engineering investigation of traffic conditions, to plan the operation of traffic on the streets and highways of this city for the purpose of making recommendation to the city board in regard thereto, and to cooperate with other city officials in the development ways and means to improve traffic conditions, and to carry out the additional powers and duties imposed by ordinances of this city.
(a) The Traffic Safety Coordinator is hereby empowered to make regulations necessary to make effective the provisions of the traffic ordinances of this city and to make and enforce temporary or experimental regulation shall remain in effect for more than ninety (90) days
(b) The traffic Safety Coordinator may use traffic-control devices under actual conditions of traffic.
(a) There is hereby established a traffic commission to serve without compensation consisting of the Mayor, the city prosecutor, a representative of traffic division designated by the Chief of Police, the Fire Chief and two (2) citizens’ representatives appointed by the Board of Mayor and Aldermen. The chairman of the commission shall be appointed by the Mayor and may be removed by him.
(b) It shall be the duty of the traffic commission, and to this end it shall have the authority within the limits of the funds at its disposal, to coordinate traffic activities, to supervise the preparation and publication of traffic reports, to receive complaints having to do with traffic matters, and to recommend to the Board of Mayor and Aldermen and to the Safety Traffic Coordinator, the Chief of the Traffic Division, and other city officials ways and means for improving traffic conditions and the administration and enforcement of traffic regulations.
No personal shall drive any motor vehicle within the city without first securing a state operator’s license therefore as prescribed by sections 8091 through 8125 of the Mississippi Code Annotated of 1942 and the amendments thereto.
Sections 12-16 through 12-25 Reserved.
(a) It shall be the duty of the officers of the police department or such officers as are assigned by the Chief of Police to enforce all street traffic regulations of this city and all of the state vehicle regulations applicable to street traffic in this city.
(b) Officers of the police department or such officers as are assigned to street, Chief of Police are hereby authorized to direct all traffic by voice, hand or signal in conformance with traffic regulations, provided that, in the event of a fire or other emergency or to expedite traffic or to safeguard pedestrians, officers of the police department may direct traffic as conditions may require notwithstanding the provisions of the traffic regulations.
(c) Officers of the fire department, when at the scene of a fire, may direct or assist the police in directing traffic thereas or in the immediate vicinity.
It is a misdemeanor for any person to do any act forbidden or fail to perform any act required by this chapter or any other traffic ordinance or regulation.
No person shall willfully fail or refuse to comply with any lawful order or direction of a police officer or fire department official.
Every person propelling any pushcart or riding an animal upon a roadway, and every person driving any animal-drawn vehicle, shall be subject to the provisions of this chapter applicable to the driver of any vehicle, except those provisions of this chapter which by their very nature can have not application.
No person upon roller skates, or riding in or by means of any coaster, toy vehicle or similar device, shall go upon any roadway except while crossing a street on a crosswalk and when so crossing such person shall be granted all of the right and shall be subject to all of the duties applicable to pedestrians. This section shall not apply upon any street while set aside as a play street as authorized by ordinance of this city.
The provisions of this chapter shall apply to the driver of any vehicle owned by or used in the service of the United States Government, this state, country, or city, and it shall be unlawful for any said driver to violate any of the provisions of this chapter, except as otherwise permitted in this chapter or by state statute.
(a) The driver of and authorized emergency vehicle, when responding to an emergency call or when in the pursuit of actual or suspected violator of the law or when responding to but not upon returning from a fire alarm, may exercise the privileges set forth in this section, but subject to the conditions herein stated.
(b) The driver of an authorized emergency vehicle may:
(1) Park or stand, irrespective of the provisions of this chapter;
(2) Proceed past a red or stop signal or stop sign, but only after slowing down as necessary for safe operation;
(3) Exceed the maximum speed limits so long as he does not endanger life or property;
(4) Disregard regulations governing direction of movement or turning in specified directions.
(c) The exemption herein granted to an authorized emergency vehicle shall apply only when the driver of any said vehicle wile in motion sounds audible signal by bell, siren or exhaust whistle as may be reasonably necessary, and when the vehicle is equipped with at one (1) lighted lamp displaying a red light visible under normal atmospheric conditions from a distance of five hundred (500) feet to the front of such vehicle, except that an authorized emergency vehicle operated as a police vehicle need not be equipped with or display a red light visible from in front of the vehicle.
(d) The foregoing provisions shall not relieve the driver of an authorized emergency vehicle from the duty to drive with due regard for the safety of all persons, nor shall such provisions protect the driver from the consequence of his reckless disregard for the safety of others.
(a) Upon immediate approach of an authorized emergency vehicle making use of audible signals meeting the requirements of the laws of this state, the driver of every other vehicle shall yield the right-of-way and shall immediately drive to a position parallel to and as close as possible to, the right-hand edge or curb of the roadway clear of any intersection and shall stop and remain in such position until the authorized emergency vehicle has passed, except when otherwise directed by a police officer.
(b) This section shall operate to relieve the driver of an authorized emergency vehicle from the duty to drive with due regard for the safety of all persons using the highway.
(a) The driver of a vehicle involved in an accident resulting in injury or death of any person or property damage to an apparent extent of fifty dollars ($50.00) or more shall immediately by the quickest means of communication give notice of such accident to the police department if such accident occurs within the city.
(b) The driver of a vehicle which is in any manner involved in an accident resulting in bodily injury to or death of any person or total property damage to an apparent extent of fifty dollars ($50.00) or more shall within five (5) days after such accident, forward a written report of such accident to the police department, or a copy of any report he is required too forward to the state. The provisions of this section shall not be applicable when the accident has been investigated at the scene by a police officer while such driver was present thereat.
Whenever the driver of a vehicle is physically incapable of giving immediate notice of an accident as required in Section 12-34 (a) and there was another occupant in the vehicle at the time of the accident capable of doing so, such occupant shall give, or cause to be given the notice not given by the driver.
All accident reports made by person involved in accidents shall be without prejudice to the individuals so reporting and shall be for the confidential use of police department or other governmental agencies having use for the records for traffic purposes, except that the identity of a person involved in an accident may be disclosed hen such identity is not otherwise known or when such person denies his presence at such accident. No reports or information mentioned in this section shall be used as evidence in any trial, civil or criminal, arising out of an accident, except that the police department shall furnish upon demand of any party to such trial, or upon demand of any court a certificate showing that a specified accident report has or has not been made to the department solely to prove a compliance or a failure to comply with the requirement that such a report be made to the department.
The persons in charge of any garage or repair shop to which is brought any motor vehicle which shows evidence of having been involved in a serious accident or struck by any bullets shall report to police headquarters of the city within twenty-four (24) hours after such motor vehicle is received, giving the engine number and the name and address of the owner or operator of such vehicle.
(a) It shall be unlawful for any ambulance or wrecker to go to the scene of any motor vehicle accident within the city unless such ambulance or wrecker has been called by the owner or operator of a motor vehicle involved in an accident or by police or fire department.
(b) It shall be the duty of every police officer of the city investigating a motor vehicle accident on the streets within the city to notify the radio dispatcher through the use of the police radio system in the event that such officer needs the assistance of additional policemen or if an ambulance or wrecker is needed at the scene of the accident.
It shall be the duty of every police officer investigating a motor vehicle accident on the streets within the city, upon arrival at the scene of such accident, including ambulances, trucks, wreckers, or any other motor vehicle, from the scene of such accident if the opinion of such officer such vehicles are interfering or hindering with the investigation of such accident or are interfering or hindering the flow of traffic at the point of such accident.
(a)The municipal judge shall establish a traffic violations bureau to assist the court with the clerical work of traffic cases. The bureau shall be in charge of such person or persons and shall be open at such hours as the municipal judge may designate.
(b)The municipal judge who hears traffic cases shall designate the specified offenses under the traffic ordinances and regulations of the city and the state traffic laws in respect to which payments of fines may be accepted by the traffic violations bureau in satisfaction thereof, and shall specify by suitable schedules the amount of such fines for first, second, and subsequent offenses, provided such fines are within the limits declared by law or ordinances, and shall further specify what number of such offenses shall require appearance before the municipal judge.
(a) Any person charged with an offense for which payment of a fine may be made to the traffic violations bureau upon entering a plea of guilty and upon waiving appearance in court; or may have the option of depositing required lawful bail, and upon a plea of not guilty shall be entitled to a trial as authorized by law.
(b) The payment of a fine to the bureau shall be deemed an acknowledgment of conviction of the alleged offense, and the bureau, upon accepting the prescribed fine, shall issue a receipt to the violator acknowledging payment thereof.
The following duties are hereby imposed upon the traffic violations bureau in reference to traffic offenses:
(a) It shall accept designated fines, issue receipts, and represent in court such violators as are permitted and desire to plead guilty, waive court appearance, and give power of attorney.
(b) It shall receive and issue receipts for cash bail from the persons who must or wish to be heard in court, enter the time of their appearance on the court docket, and notify the arresting officer and witnesses, if any, to be present.
(c) It shall keep an easily accessible record of all violations of which each person has been guilty during the preceding twelve (12) months, whether such guilt was established in court or in the traffic violations bureau.
The traffic violations bureau shall keep records and submit summarized monthly reports to the city judge of all notices issued and arrests made for violations of the traffic laws, ordinances and regulations in the city and of all of the fines collected by the traffic violations bureau of the court, and of the final disposition or present statute of every case of violations of the provisions of said laws, ordinances and regulations. Such records shall be so maintained as to show all types of violations and the total of each. Said records shall be public records.
The traffic violations bureau shall follow such procedure as may be prescribed by the board of mayor and aldermen or as may be required by any laws of this state.
Sections 12-53 through
12-62. Reserved.
Unless another penalty is expressly provided by this chapter, every person convicted of a violation of any provision of this chapter shall be punished by a fine of not more than one hundred dollars ($100.00) or by imprisonment for not more than ten (10) days for the first such violation; by a fine of not more than two hundred dollars ($200.00) or by imprisonment for not more than twenty (20) days or by both such fine or imprisonment for the second violation within one year thereafter; and by a fine of not more than three hundred dollars ($300.00) or imprisonment for not more than ninety (90) days or by both such fine or imprisonment for the third violation within one year after the first such conviction.
Except when authorized or directed under state law to immediately take a person before a magistrate for the violation of any traffic laws, a police officer who halts a person for such violation other than for the purpose of giving him a warning or a warning notice and does not take such person into custody under arrest, shall take the name, address, and operator’s license number of said person, the registered number of the motor vehicle involved, and such other pertinent information as may be necessary, and shall issue to him in writing on a form provided by the City Clerk a traffic citation containing a notice to answer to the charge against him in the municipal court at a time to be specified in said citation. The officer, upon receiving the written promise of the alleged violator to answer as specified in the citation, shall release such person from custody.
(a) The City Clerk shall provide books to include traffic citation forms for notifying alleged violators to appear and answer to charges of violating traffic laws, ordinances and regulations in the municipal court. Said books shall include serially numbered sets citations in quadruplicate in the form prescribed and approved jointly by the city judge and the Chief of Police.
(b) The City Clerk shall issue such books to the Chief of Police or his duly authorized agent and shall maintain a record of every book so issued and shall require a written receipt for every such book.
(c) The Chief of Police shall be responsible for the issuance of such books to individual members of the police department. The Chief of Police shall require a written receipt for every book so issued and shall maintain a record of every such book and each set of citations contained therein.
(a) Every police officer upon issuing a traffic citation to an alleged violator of any provision of the motor vehicle laws of the state or of any traffic ordinance or regulation of this city shall deposit the original and duplicate copy of the citation with his immediate superior officer, who shall cause the original to be delivered to the municipal court and said duplicate copy to the central records section of the police department. The second duplicate copy of the citation shall be retained in the traffic citation book and shall be delivered by such superior officer to the City Clerk together with such book when all traffic citations therein have been used.
(b) Upon the filing of such original citation in the municipal court as aforesaid, said citation may be disposed of only by trial in said court or by other official action by a judge of said court, including forfeiture of bail or by payment of a fine to the traffic violations bureau of said court.
(c) The Chief of Police shall require the return to him of each traffic citation and all copies thereof, except that copy required to be retained in the book provided herein, which has been spoiled or upon which any entry has been made and has not been issued to an alleged violator.
(d) The Chief of Police shall also maintain or cause to be maintained in connection with every traffic citation issued by a member of the police department a record of the disposition of the charge by the municipal court or its traffic violations bureau.
(e) The Chief of Police shall also maintain or cause to be maintained a record of all warrants issued by the municipal court or by any other court on said traffic violation charges and which are delivered to the police department for service, and of the final disposition of all such warrants.
(f) If shall be unlawful and official misconduct for any member of the police department or other officer or public employee to dispose of, alter or deface a traffic citation or any cop 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 section.
It shall be unlawful for any person to cancel or solicit the cancellations of any traffic citation in any manner other than as provided by this article.
In the event the form of citation provided under section 12-65 includes information and is sworn to as required under the general laws of this state in respect to a complaint charging commission of the offense alleged in said citation to have been committed, then such citation when filed with a court having jurisdiction shall be deemed to be a lawful complaint for the purpose of prosecution under this chapter.
It shall be unlawful for any person to violate his written promise to appear given to an officer upon issuance of a traffic citation regardless of the disposition of the charge for which such citation was originally issued.
Whenever any motor vehicle without driver is found parked or stopped in violation of any of the restrictions imposed by this code, city ordinance or regulation or by state law the officer finding such vehicle shall take its registration number and may take any other information displayed on the vehicle which may identify its user, and shall conspicuously affix to such vehicle a traffic citation, on a form provided by the city clerk, for the driver to answer to charge against him within five (5) days during the hours and at a place specified in the citation.
If a violator of the restrictions on stopping, standing or parking under the traffic laws, ordinances or regulations does not appear in response to a traffic citation affixed to such motor vehicle within a period of five (5) days the traffic violations bureau shall send to the owner of the motor vehicle to which the traffic citation was affixed, a letter informing him of the violation and warning him that in the event such letter is disregarded for a period of five (5) days, a warrant of arrest will be issued.
(a) In any prosecution charging a violation of any law or regulation governing the standing or parking of a vehicle, proof that the particular vehicle described in the complaint was parked in violation of any such law or regulation, together with proof that the defendant named in the complaint was at the time of such parking the registered owner of such vehicle, shall constitute a prima facie presumption that the registered owner of such vehicle was the person who parked or placed such vehicle at the point where, and or the time during which, such violation occurred.
(b) The foregoing stated presumption shall apply only when the procedure as prescribed in sections 12-68 and 12-69 has been followed.
In the event any person fails to comply with a traffic citation given to such persons or attached to a vehicle or fails or refuses to deposit bail as required and within the time permitted, the municipal court shall secure and issue a warrant for his arrest.
(a) The municipal judge shall keep or cause to be kept a record of every traffic complaint, traffic citation, or other legal form of traffic charge deposited with or presented to said court or its traffic violations bureau, and shall keep a record of every official action by said court or its tragic violations bureau in reference thereto, including but not limited to a record of every conviction, forfeiture of bail, judgment of acquittal, and the amount deposited with or presented to said court or traffic violation bureau.
(b) Within ten (10) days after the conviction or forfeiture of bail or a person upon a charge of violating any provisions of this chapter or other law regulating the operation of vehicle on highways the municipal judge shall prepare and immediately forward to the state department of public safety an abstract of the record of said court covering the case in which said person was so convicted or forfeited bail, which abstract must be certified by the person so required to prepare the same to be true and correct. Report need not be made of any conviction involving the illegal parking or standing of a vehicle.
(c) Said abstract must be made upon a form furnished by the state department of public safety and shall include the name and address of the party charged, the registration number of the vehicle involved, the nature of the offense, the date of hearing, the plea, the judgment, or whether bail was forfeited, and the amount of the fine or forfeiture as the case may be.
(d) The failure, refusal or neglect of any such judicial officer to comply with any of the requirements of this section shall constitute misconduct in office and shall e grounds for removal there from.
All fines or forfeitures collected upon conviction or upon the forfeiture of bail of any person charged with a violation of any of the provisions of this chapter or other traffic law, ordinance or regulation shall be paid into the city treasury.
(a) Members of the police department are hereby authorized to remove a vehicle from a street or highway to the nearest garage or other place of safety, or to a garage designated or maintained by the police department, or otherwise maintained by this city under the circumstances hereinafter enumerated:
(1) When any vehicle is left unattended upon any bridge, viaduct, or causeway, or in any tube or tunnel where such vehicle constitutes an obstruction to traffic.
(2) When a vehicle upon a highway is so disabled as to constitute an obstruction to traffic and the person or persons in charge of the vehicle are by reason of physical injury incapacitated to such an extent as to be unable to provide for its custody or removal.
(3) When any vehicle is left unattended upon a street and is so parked illegally as to constitute a definite hazard or obstruction to the normal movement of traffic.
(b) Whenever an officer removes a vehicle from a street as authorized in this section and the officer knows or is able to ascertain from the registration records in the vehicle the name and address of the owner thereof, such officer shall immediately give or cause to be given notice in writing to such owner of the fact of such removal and the reasons therefore and of the place to which such vehicle has been removed. In the event any such vehicle is stored in a public garage, a copy of such notice shall be given to the proprietor of such garage.
(c) Whenever an officer removes a vehicle from a street under this section and does not know and is not able to ascertain the mane of the owner, or for any other reason is unable to give the notice to owner as hereinbefore provided, and in the event the vehicle is not returned to the owner within a period of three (3) days, then and in that the event the officer shall immediately send or cause to be sent a written report of such removal by mail to the state department whose duty it is to register motor vehicles, and shall file a copy of such notice with the proprietor of any public garage in which the vehicle is stored. Such notice shall include a complete description of the vehicle, the date, time and place from which removed, the reason for such removal, and the name of the garage or place where the vehicle is stored.
Pedestrians shall be subject to traffic-control signals as declared in section 12-250, but all other places pedestrians shall be granted those rights and be subject to the restrictions stated in this article.
(a) When traffic-control signals are not in place or not in operation the driver of a vehicle shall yield the right-of-way, slowing down or stopping if need be to so yield, to a pedestrian crossing the roadway within a crosswalk.
(b) No pedestrian shall suddenly leave a curb or other place of safety and walk or run into the path of a vehicle which is so close that it is impossible for the driver to yield.
(c) Whenever any vehicle is stopped at a marked crosswalk or at any unmarked crosswalk at an intersection to permit a pedestrian to cross the roadway, the driver of any other vehicle approaching from the rear shall not overtake and pass such stopped vehicle.
Pedestrians shall move, whenever practicable, upon the right half of crosswalks.
No pedestrian shall cross a roadway at any place other than by a route at right angles to the curb or by the shortest route to the opposite curb except in a crosswalk.
(a) Every pedestrian crossing a roadway at any point other than within a marked crosswalk or within an unmarked crosswalk at an intersection shall yield the right-of-way to all vehicles upon the roadway.
(b) Any pedestrian crossing a roadway at a point where a pedestrian tunnel or overhead pedestrian crossing has been provided shall yield the right of way to all vehicles upon the roadway.
(c) The foregoing rules in this section have no application under the conditions stated in section 12-92 when pedestrians are prohibited from crossing at certain designated places.
(a) Between adjacent intersections at which traffic-control signals are in operation, pedestrians shall not cross at any place except in a crosswalk.
(b) No pedestrian shall cross a roadway other than in a crosswalk in the central business district.
(c) No pedestrian shall cross a roadway other than in a crosswalk upon any street so designated by the traffic safety coordinator.
(a) No pedestrian shall enter or remain upon any bridge or approach thereto beyond the bridge signal, gate or barrier after a bride operation signal indication has been given.
(b) No pedestrian shall pass through, around, over, or under any crossing gate or barrier at a railroad grade crossing or bridge while such gate or barrier is closed or is being opened or closed.
(a) Where sidewalks are provided it shall be unlawful for any pedestrian to walk along and upon an adjacent roadway.
(b) Where sidewalks are not provided any pedestrian walking along and upon a highway shall when practicable walk only on the left side of the roadway or its shoulder facing traffic which may approach from the opposite direction.
(a) No person shall stand in a roadway for the purpose of soliciting a ride, employment, or business from the occupant of any vehicle.
(b) No person all stand on or in proximity to a street or highway for the purpose of soliciting the watching or guarding of any vehicle while parked or about to be parked on a street or highway.
Notwithstanding the foregoing provisions of this article every driver of a vehicle shall exercise due care to avoid colliding with any pedestrian upon any roadway and shall give warning by sounding the horn when necessary and shall exercise proper precaution upon observing any child or any confused or incapacitated person upon on a roadway.