(A) The Police Chief shall maintain a suitable system of filing traffic accident reports. Accident reports or cards referring to them shall be filed alphabetically by location.

(B) The Police Chief shall receive and properly file all accident reports made to him or her under state law or under any law of the City, but all accident reports made by drivers shall be for the confidential use of the City and no report shall be admissible in any civil or criminal proceeding other than upon request of any person making the report or upon request of the court having jurisdiction, to prove a compliance with the law requiring the making of any report. (Code 1982 § 10-5. Code 2012 § 70.05.)