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Title 15 : Motor Vehicles, Traffic and Parking
Chapter 2 : Administration And Enforcement

15-201 : City traffic engineer.

  1. The office of city traffic engineer is hereby established. The chief of police shall, in the absence of a traffic engineer, serve as city traffic engineer in addition to his other functions and shall exercise the powers and duties with respect to traffic as provided in this chapter.

  2. It shall be the general duty of the city traffic engineer 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 investigations of traffic conditions, to plan the operation of traffic on the streets and highways of the city 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 this code or other ordinances of the city. (1973 Code, § 11-19)