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§ 8-5-3-1 FREQUENCY OF PARKING CITATIONS.
   (A)   Parking Citations No More Frequently Than One For Every Legal Time Period. A parking citation shall be issued whenever a vehicle is first found to be in violation of §§ 8-5-1-3, 8-5-1-5, 8-5-1-6, 8-5-1-8 and 8-5-1-9. Additional citations shall be issued at the expiration of each period of time equal to the legal period of time in which a vehicle may be parked at or within that particular stall or place. For example, if the "VIOLATION" flag is up at a 15-minute meter, the vehicle parked in violation at the metered stall shall be issued a parking citation immediately and shall then be issued additional parking citations no more frequently than every 15 minutes thereafter.
   (B)   Parking Citations No More Frequently Than One For Every 55 Minutes. Whenever a vehicle is parked in violation of §§ 8-5-1-1, 8-5-1-2, 8-5-1-4, 8-5-1-10, 8-5-1-11, 8-5-1-13, 8-5-1-14, 8-5-1-15, 8-5-1-16, 8-5-1-17, 8-5-1-18, 8-5-1-20, 8-5-1-21, 8-5-1-26, 8-5-1-32, 8-5-1-34, 8-5-1-35, 8-5-1-36 or 8-5-1-38, parking citations shall not be issued more frequently than one for every 55 minutes. However, each such citation shall have, as an assessed standard fine of no less than five times the amount of the standard fine assessed for violations of the sections listed in division (A) above.
   (C)   Parking Citation No More Frequently Than One For Every 24-Hour Period. Whenever a vehicle is parked in violation of §§ 8-5-1-12, 8-5-1-19, 8-5-1-25 and 8-5-1-43, parking citations shall not be issued more frequently than one for every 24-hour period.
   (D)   Nothing in this section shall be deemed to limit the authority of the Police Department, Parking Enforcement Officer, or Security Officer to remove a vehicle as authorized in §§ 8-5-2-1 et seq.
('74 Code, § 9-5-19.42) (Ord. 65-1974; Am. Ord. 2016-011; Am. Ord. 2023-017) Penalty, see § 8-1-3-99