208 Meridian Traffic Safety Commission
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ORDINANCE NO. 208
AN'-ORDINANCE CREATING THE t'MERIDIAN TRAFFIC SAFETY COMMISSIONttpROVIDING 'FOR ITS
~l!}ij9HIP; SETTING THEIR TERMS ,Olf OI!',tICE; PROVIDING FOH 'r~__J'lLLING OF VACANCIES;
PJlOVIDING FOR ITS MEETINGS AND DUTIES; AND REPEALING ALL ORDINANCES OR PARTS
THEREOF IN CONFLICT WITH THIS ORDINANCE.AND PROlVIDING FOR THIS ORDINANCE TO TAKE
EFFECT FROM AND AFTBR ITS PASSAGE, APPROVAL AND PUBLICATION.
BE IT ORDAINED BY THE MAYOR AND CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF MERIDIAN, ADA COUNTY,
IDAHO:- .. .
Section 1. That there is hereby created the "Meridian Traffic Safety Commiasionn
for the City of Meridian, Idaho,to-wit:-
CHAPl'ER
TRAFFIC. SAFETY COMMISSION
SECTION:
Creation
Membership and Terms of Office
Vacancies
Organization'
Meetings
Duties
CREATION: There is hereby created and established, a commission
to be known as ''Meridi~n Traffic Safety Commission\.'.
: MEMBERSHIP AND TERMS OF OFFICE: The Traffic Safety Commission
shall consist of eight (8) members to be appointed by the Mayor, with the consent and
approval of the Council. Members of said commission 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 three (3) members shall expire in UJ.Y one (1) year. Two (2) of such
-members shall hold offi.ce for a term of two (2) years, three (3) for four (4) years and
three (3) 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.
(1) .sQh ~$",rs &tlltlbl selected so that there shall always remain in the commission one
(1) ~uttt~\~\sCfi~ector, one (1) City Judge, Qne (1) Conaty Commissioner, one (1)
Chief of Police, one (1) City Attorney, and two (2) local citizens and shall aerve
without compenaation.
: VACANCIES: Vacancies shall be filled by appointment of the Mayor,
with the consent of the Council.
ORGANIZATION: The Commission shall elect its own chairman and
secretary, and create and fill such other offices &s it may determi.ne necessary, and
adopt such rules as it shall deem necessary to carry out its purposes.'
; MEETINGS: The CommiBsion Ghall 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 Corruni.ssion shall be necessary to canstitute 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.
DUTIES: It shall be the duty of the Commission to recommend and
make suggestions to the Council for the adoption of plans for traffic safety-a~
recommended by the National Safety Council Study of 1968; to coordinate-all--Reridi_an
City Traffic Safety Plans into the State gf Idaho Plan; to make sugge6t~ons-forpro"~
jects designed to increase safety in pedestrian and school traffic in the Citi'-a:nd~,:~
to generally recommend to the Counci.l plans to improve traffic safety in the-'entir,.i_~.
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Section 2. AIJ. ordinances, resolutions, orders or parts therewith,-iI! confl::ict,:-
herewith are hereby repealed, recinded and annulled.
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WHEREAS, there is an emergency therefo1'l\ which emergency is declared tg, exist,
this Ordinance shall take effect and be in force fro. and after its passage, approval
and publication as required by law.
Passed by the City Council and approved by the Mayor of the City of Meridian,
Ada County':' Idaho this 7th day of June, 1971.
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