(A) A final determination of an automated traffic law violation(s) liability shall occur:
(1) Following the failure to pay the total assessed fine or penalty after the Hearing Officer’s determination of vehicular standing, parking, compliance regulation or automated traffic law violation(s) liability within the required 25 days and, the exhaustion of or the failure to exhaust any administrative review procedures hereinafter set forth; or
(2) Where a person fails to appear at a prior requested administrative hearing provided to contest the alleged standing, parking or compliance regulation violation(s) on the date and at the time and place specified, in a prior served or mailed notice, or fails to appear at the hearing for an automated traffic law violation on the date and at the time and place specified in a prior mailed notice. The Hearing Officer’s determination of vehicular standing, parking, compliance regulation or automated traffic law violation(s) liability shall become final upon the exhaustion of or the failure to exhaust any administrative or judicial review procedures hereinafter set forth:
(a) Upon denial of a timely petition to set aside that determination; or
(b) Upon the expiration of the period for filing a petition without a filing having been made.
(B) (1) A determination of automated traffic law violation liability shall occur following failure to pay the fine or penalty, or to contest the alleged violation within 14 days of the notice of violation. Where a person fails to appear at a hearing to contest the alleged violation in the time and manner specified in a prior mailed notice, the Hearing Officer will enter findings.
(2) Decision and order’s determination of automated traffic law violation liability which shall become final:
(a) Upon denial of a timely petition to set aside that determination; or
(b) Upon expiration of the period for filing such a petition without a filing having been made.
(3) If a person appears at a hearing and is found liable or contests the violation by mail and is found liable, the Hearing Officer will enter findings, decision and order, which is a final determination of automated traffic law violation liability that is a final, appealable order.
(C) A notice of final determination shall be sent following the final determination of automated traffic law violation liability and the conclusion of judicial review. Service of said notice shall be deemed complete upon deposit in the United States mail. The notice of final determination shall include the following information:
(1) A statement that the unpaid fine is a debt due and owing to the city; and
(2) A warning that a failure to pay any fine due and owing to the city within 14 days may result in a petition to the Circuit Court of Cook County to have the unpaid fine rendered as a judgment or may result in the suspension of the person’s driver’s license for failure to pay fines or penalties for five or more violation under this subchapter.
(Prior Code, § 70.067) (Ord. 2014-052, passed 11-11-2014; Ord. 2016-001, passed 1-12-2016)