§ 30-414. Accident reports; filing; admissibility in court.

The Sheriff's Department shall maintain a suitable system of filing traffic accident reports. Accident reports or cards referring to them, shall be filed alphabetically and by location. Such reports shall be available for the use and information of the Traffic Engineer.

All accident reports made by persons involved in accidents shall be without prejudice to the individual so reporting and shall be for the confidential use of the Sheriff's Department or other County and State agencies having use of the records for accident prevention purposes, except that the Sheriff's Department or municipal police departments may disclose the identity of a person involved in an accident when such identity is not otherwise known or when such person denies his presence at such accident. No such report shall be used as evidence in any trial, civil or criminal, arising out of an accident, except that the Sheriff's Department shall furnish upon demand of any person who has or claims to have, made such a report or, upon demand of any court, a certificate showing that a specified accident report has or has not been made to the Sheriff's Department solely to prove a compliance or a failure to comply with the requirements that such a report be made to the Sheriff's Department.

(Ord. No. 71-94, § 1, 12-21-71)