Truckee Municipal Code Ch. 10.02 Traffic Administrator

There is hereby established in the police department of the Town a traffic services responsibility to be under the control of the operations division of the department.

Traffic services responsibilities shall include: Enforcement of the street traffic regulations of the Town and all of the state vehicle laws applicable to street traffic in the Town to make arrests for traffic violations; investigation of traffic accidents; cooperation with the traffic engineer and other officers of the Town 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 by this Title.

The position of Traffic Engineer is hereby established. The Town Engineer shall exercise the powers and duties of the Traffic Engineer as provided in this chapter. The Traffic Engineer shall be responsible for all traffic engineering division functions in the Engineering Department.

(ORD 98-01 03-05-98)

(a) It shall be the general duty of the traffic engineer 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 analysis of traffic conditions and to cooperate with other Town officials in the development of ways and means to improve traffic conditions, and to carry out the additional powers and duties imposed by ordinances of the Town.

(b) Whenever the traffic engineer is required or authorized to place or maintain official traffic control devices or signals, the traffic engineer may cause such devices or signals to be placed or maintained.

(c) Whenever, by the provisions of this Chapter, a power is granted to the traffic engineer or a duty imposed, the power may be exercised or the duty performed by a person authorized in writing by the traffic engineer.

(d) When appropriate, the traffic engineer shall seek the participation of the traffic services function of the operations division when significant traffic control changes are proposed by the traffic engineer.

Whenever the accidents at any particular location become numerous, the operations division of the police department shall cooperate with the traffic engineer in conducting studies of such accidents and determining remedial measures.

The operations division of the police department shall maintain a suitable system of filing traffic accident reports. Such reports shall be available for the use and information of the supervising officer of traffic services and the traffic engineer.

The police department, or other authority designated by the Council, shall prepare a traffic report which shall be filed with the Town council. Such a report shall contain information on traffic matters 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 police department for future traffic safety activities.

(a) The chief of police by and with the approval of the traffic engineer is hereby empowered to make regulations necessary to make effective the provisions of this Title 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 for more than ninety (90) days.

(b) The traffic engineer may test traffic control devices under actual conditions of traffic with the approval of California Traffic Control Devices Committee.

(c) The chief of police may authorize the temporary placing of official traffic control devices when required by an emergency. The chief of police shall notify the traffic engineer of such action as soon thereafter as is practicable.

(ORD 93-23 09-02-93)