§ 34-172. Record of traffic cases; report of convictions.  


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  • (a)

    Every judge of the municipal court shall keep or cause to be kept a record of every traffic complaint, traffic citation, or other legal form of traffic charge deposited with or presented to said court or to the traffic violations bureau, and shall keep a record of every official action by said court or the traffic violations bureau in reference thereto including, but not limited to, a record of every conviction, forfeiture of bail, judgment of acquittal, and the amount of fine or forfeiture resulting from every said traffic complaint or citation deposited with or presented to said court or traffic violations bureau.

    (b)

    Within ten (10) days after the conviction of a person upon a charge of violating any provision of this act or other law regulating the operation of vehicles on highways, the judge or clerk of the municipal court shall prepare and immediately forward to said state department of motor vehicles, an abstract of the record of said court covering the case in which said person was so convicted; which abstract must be certified by the person so required to prepare the same, to be true and correct. Reports need not be made of any conviction involving the illegal parking or standing of a vehicle.

    (c)

    Said abstract must be made upon a form furnished by said state department of motor vehicles and shall include the name and address of the party charged; the number, if any, of his drivers license; the registration number of the vehicle involved; the nature of the offense; the date of hearing; the plea; the judgment; and the amount of the fine.

(Code 1960, Ch. 21 App., § 116)