Legal Documents of Newport
Code of Newport
Title 15 Motor Vehicles, Traffic and Parking
Chapter 6 Procedure on Arrest
15-602 : Procedure of police officers for the issuance of citations.
Except when authorized or directed under state law to immediately take a person before a judge for the violation of any traffic laws, a police officer who stops a person for such a violation, other than for the purpose of giving him a warning or warning notice and does not take such person into custody under arrest, shall take the name, address, and operator's license number of the person, the registration 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 recorder, a traffic citation containing a notice to answer to the charge against him in the recorder's court of the city at a time at least five (5) days after the alleged violation, which time shall be specified in the citation. The officer, upon receiving the written promise of the alleged violator to answer as specified in the citation, shall release the person from custody. (1973 Code, § 11-73)