(1) Any applicant for a registration or permit to operate a vehicle on village streets shall be deemed to be the agent of the owner of such vehicle for the purposes of this chapter.
(2) Any person applying for a registration or permit to operate a vehicle on village streets shall be deemed to have agreed as agent of the owner to indemnify the village from any specific damage done to any village asset by such vehicle. Further, any person applying for a registration or permit to operate a vehicle on village streets shall include a written agreement by the applicant as agent of the owner to indemnify and fully hold harmless the village from any specific damage to any village asset occasioned by the operation of the registered or permitted vehicle.
(3) Upon identification of any specific damage occasioned to any village asset by the operation of any vehicle, the village may undertake the repair and restoration of any such asset to the conditionimmediately before such damage occurred and may assess the repair costs against the owner of the vehicle causing such damage.
(4) Upon identification of such repair costs, the Village Manager shall cause to be issued to the owner of such vehicle at the owner's address by first class mail, postage prepaid and affixed thereto, an assessment notice. Such notice shall include notification that the village intends to seek collection of the repair costs from the owner thereof and that the owner shall have a period of ten working days from the date of issuance of such notice in which to notify the Village Manager in writing if such liability is contested in any manner. If not contested by the owner, the assessment notice shall become the final assessment. If the owner of such vehicle shall contest any aspect of the assessment notice, the owner shall do so in writing delivered to the Village Manager within ten days of the date of the assessment notice and the Village Manager shall then schedule a hearing to be conducted not less than ten working days after receipt of the notice. At such hearing, the objection of the owner shall be heard and the owner shall have full opportunity to present any objections to such assessment, together with any evidence in support thereof. The Village Manager shall then decide all issues contested by the owner. The Village Manager's decision with regard to all issues contested by the owner, including but not limited to the liability of such owner for repair costs and amount thereof, shall be final. The Village Manager shall notify the owner of the decision and shall deliver written notice of the decision to the owner at the owner's address by placing such notice in the United States mail with first-class postage, prepaid and affixed thereto, within four working days of the hearing. Such notice shall then become the final assessment. The owner shall have 15 working days from the date of mailing of the final assessment in which to pay the assessment.
(5) If the owner shall not pay the final assessment within 15 working days of the date when the assessment becomes final, any registration of permit for operation of the vehicle upon the village streets shall be revoked and no registration or permit shall be issued thereafter to operate such vehicle on the village streets until such time as the assessment has been paid in full. Additionally, the village may seek collection of the assessment through any civil process allowed by law.
(Ord. of 2000-26, § 2, 10-21-2000; Ord. No. 2010-0902, 9-24-2010; Ord. of 2019, 10-15-2019)