HomeMy WebLinkAboutORDINANCE NO. 497 TRAFFIC SAFETY COMMISSIONORDINANCE NO. 497
AN ORDINANCE CREATING THE REXBURG TRAFFIC SAFETY COMMISSION;
PROVIDING FOR ITS MEMBERSHIP: SETTING THEIR TERMS OF OFFICE:
PROVIDING FOR THE FILLING OF VACANCIES: PROVIDING FOR ITS MEETINGS
AND DUTIES: AND REPEALING ALL ORDINANCES OR PARTS THEREOF
IN CONFLICT WITH THIS ORDINANCE AND PROVIDING FOR THIS ORDINANCE TO TAKE
EFFECT FROM AND AFTER ITS PASSAGE, APPROVAL ARID PUBLICATION.
BE IT ORDAINED BY THE MAYOR AND COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF REXBURG., IDAHO:
TRAFFIC SAFETY COMMISSION
SECTION I: CREATION: There is herebv created and established a commission
to be known as "Rexburg Traffic Safety Commission."
SECTION II: MEMBERSHIP AND TERMS OF OFFICE: The Traffic Safety Commission
shall consist of ten (10) members to bp ap "ointed by the Mayor, with the consent and approval
of the Council. Members of said commisGion shall hold office for a period of six (6) years
each and said terms shall be staggered in such a manner so that the terms of not more than
four (4) members shall expire in anv one (1) ye -r. Two (2) of such members shall hold office
for a term of three (3) years; four (4) for four (4) years, and four (4) for six (6) years,
the respective terms of office to be determined by lot at the first meeting of the commission.
Thereafter, the term of office for each appointive member shall be six (6) years.
Members shall be selected so that there shall always remain in the commission
one (1) school administrator; one (1) City Engineer or public works director or personnel
director; one (1) city judge or magistrate; one (1) county commissioner; one (1) chief of
Police; one (1) city attorney, and four (4) local citizens, and shall serve without compensa-
tion.
SECTION III: VACANCIES: Vacancies shall be filled by appointment of the
Mayor, with the consent of the Council.
SECTION IV ORGANIZATION: The commission shall elect its own chairman and
secretary, and create and fill such other offices as it may determine necessary, and adopt
such rules as it shall deem necessary to carry out its purposes.
SECTION V: MEETINGS: The commission shall hold one (1) regular meeting
each month for not less than nine (9) months in each year. A majority of the appointive
members of the commission shall be necessary to constitute a quorum at any meeting. All
meetings shall be open to the public. A written record of its meetings, resolutions, findings,
and determinations shall be kept, which shall be a public record.
The commission may require the attendance at any meeting of such other city
Officials as it may deem necessary.
SECTION VI DUTIES: It shall be the duty of the commission to recommend and
make suggestions to the Council for the adopting of plans for traffic safety as recommended
by the National Safety Council Study of 1968; to coordinate all Rexburg City Traffic Safety
Plans into the State of Idaho Plan; to make suggestions for projects designed to increase safet
in pedestrain and school traffic in the City and to generally recommend to the Council plans
to improve traffic safety in the entire City of Rexburg..
SECTION VII: All ordinances, resolutions, orders or parts therewith, in conflict
herewith are hereby repealed, rescinded and annulled.
SECTION VIII: This ordinance shall be in full force and effect from and after
its approval, passage and publication, as required by law.
PASSED by the Council this 6th day of August, 1969.
APPROVED by the Mayor this 6th day of August, 1969.
Mayor
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