(A) (1) Whenever any motor vehicle without a driver is found parked or stopped in violation of any of the restrictions imposed by this title, the officer finding the vehicle shall take its registration number and any other information displayed on the vehicle which may identify its user.
(2) The officer shall conspicuously affix to the vehicle a notice, in writing, in a form provided by the city for the driver's answer to the charge against him or her within five days and at the time and place specified in the notice.
(3) The officer shall deliver copies of the notice to the Traffic Division.
(B) In any prosecution charging a violation of any law or regulation governing the standing or parking of a vehicle, proof that the particular vehicle described in the complaint was parked in violation of any law or regulation, together with proof that the defendant named in the complaint was, at the time of the parking, the registered owner of the vehicle, shall constitute a prima facie presumption that the registered owner was the person who parked or placed the vehicle at the point where, and for the time during which, the violation occurred.
(Prior Code, § 16-312) (Ord. 1473A, passed 5-25-91)