Richmond Municipal Code Ch. 14.08 Traffic Administration

It shall be the duty of the uniform division 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 traffic accidents and to cooperate with the Director of Public Works 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 specifically imposed upon the division by this article.

(Ord. No. 01-21 N.S., § 5, 3-2-2021)

The Police Department 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 Director of Public Works.

(Ord. No. 01-21 N.S., § 5, 3-2-2021)

The Police Department shall annually prepare a traffic report which shall be filed with the City Council. Such report shall contain information on traffic matters in the City as follows:

(1) The number of traffic accidents, the number of persons killed, the number of persons injured, and other pertinent traffic accident data;

(2) The number of traffic accidents investigated and other pertinent data on the safety activities of the police;

(3) The plans and recommendations of the division for future traffic safety activities.

(Ord. No. 01-21 N.S., § 5, 3-2-2021)

The Director of Public Works shall exercise the powers and duties with respect to traffic as provided in this article.

(Ord. No. 01-21 N.S., § 5, 3-2-2021)

It shall be the general duty of the Director of Public Works to determine the installation and proper timing and maintenance of traffic control devices and signals, to conduct engineering analysis of traffic accidents and to devise remedial measures, to conduct engineering and traffic investigations of traffic conditions and to cooperate with other City officials in the development of ways and means to improve traffic conditions, and to carry out the additional powers and duties imposed by laws of this City. Whenever, by the provisions of this article a power is granted to the Director of Public Works or a duty imposed upon him, the power may be exercised or the duty performed by his deputy or by a person authorized in writing by him. All proposed installations, changes or removal of traffic signs, signals, streets, or curb markings shall be approved by the Transportation Department before final action is taken.

(Ord. No. 01-21 N.S., § 5, 3-2-2021)

(a) The Chief of Police is hereby empowered to make regulations necessary to make effective the provisions of the traffic laws of this City and to make and enforce temporary or experimental regulations to cover emergencies or special conditions. No such temporary or experimental regulation shall remain in effect more than 90 days. The Director of Public Work and the Transportation Department shall immediately be informed of any and all actions taken by the Chief of Police under provisions of this section.

(b) The Director of Public Works may test traffic-control devices under actual conditions of traffic.

(Ord. No. 01-21 N.S., § 5, 3-2-2021)

Those employees of the City of Richmond who are classified as Parking Enforcement Representatives, or who may hereafter be classified by some other appropriate designation with substantially the same duties and responsibilities as Parking Enforcement Representative, are hereby authorized to give the notice required by Sections 41102 and 41103(1) of the Vehicle Code of the State of California of violation of any provision of said Vehicle Code governing the standing or parking of a vehicle, or requiring the display of license plates or registration, or any tab, sticker or other suitable device in lieu thereof with respect to an unattended vehicle, or any provision of this chapter or of any ordinance enacted by the City of Richmond governing the standing or parking of a vehicle, or relating to parking meters, pay systems or parking meter standards, either on the public street, highway or right-of-way, or on municipal off-street parking lots.

(Source: Ordinance No. 1753, as amended by Ordinance No. 74 N.S.; Ord. No. 01-21 N.S., § 5, 3-2-2021)