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• • • MUNICIPAL COURT INTER-DEPARTMENT PROCEDURE CHANGES Traffic Citations All unissued traffic citations will be the sole responsibility of the Court Clerk, and will be maintained by her,_under lock and key, until she assigns thern to the police officers individ- ually. Each officer will be required to sign a receipt for every book of citations assigned to him, after which he will be totally responsible for that book. Tn no event will there be a dis~riissal of any issued traffic citation, except by the Court itself. Each police officer shall turn in every ticket which has been issued by him, or voided because of a mistake, no later than the end of his shift. These tickets and accompanying complaints are to be deposited in a locked..:-box located in the police station. The Court Clerk will maintain the only key to this box. The next time the traffic citations are printed, they shall bear • a notation to the effect that on the second offense for any vio- lator, the violator must appear in court, and cannot plead guilty and pay his fine through the Clerk. To enforce this, the Clerk will begin immediately to maintain an alphabetical file of all violators. (It is anticipated that it will be another six month before the citations are again reprinted.) Accident Reports Under a new state law, the City is now obligated to furnish a copy of all accident reports to anyone requesting same. Therefore, a coupon system will be instituted to facilitate these request. A person wishing to purchase a photocopy of an accident report, may do so by first purchasing a coupon from the Court Clerk for a charge of Two (2) Dollars. These coupons will state that they are good for a period of one (1) year from the date of issuance and will become void after that time. They can be taken to the police station anytime within the one (1) year period and redeemed for a photocopy of the requested accident report. Upon redemption, these coupons will be cancelled and returned to the Court Clerk. They are to be turned in daily by depositing them in the same locked box provided for the traffic citations.