(A) Any person charged with a violation of this traffic code, except a person who is charged with a moving traffic violation and who has been convicted of a moving traffic violation within the previous year, may, within a period of ten days of the date of being charged with the violation, elect to plead guilty and pay the minimum fine required by this chapter in lieu of being charged with such violation in a court of competent jurisdiction which fine shall be payable in the office of the Clerk-Treasurer.
(B) (1) The Clerk-Treasurer shall accept and receipt any payable fine for a violation of this traffic code for the benefit of the general fund of the town.
(2) For each fine received for any violation of any of the provisions of this traffic code pertaining to any of the following moving traffic matters:
(a) The regulation of traffic by means of traffic- control signals;
(b) The designation of particular streets as one-way streets;
(c) The regulation of the speed of vehicles on streets, alleys, or other public places;
(d) The designation of any street as a through street, requiring that all vehicles stop before entering or crossing the same; or
(e) The designation of any intersection as a stop intersection, requiring all vehicles to stop at one or more entrances to such intersection.
(3) The Clerk-Treasurer shall forward the $3 fee to the State Commissioner of Motor Vehicles in the manner now or hereafter provided by law and shall notify the Bureau of Motor Vehicles of the state in which the violator is licensed of such conviction.
(4) The provisions relating to payment to the Clerk- Treasurer in lieu of being charged with the offense shall apply to violations of the ordinances of the town regulating the standing, parking, and use of vehicles with respect to streets and highways under the jurisdiction of the town as to all matters set forth in the Acts of Indiana, 1947, Chapter 338, as amended.
(Ord. 306, passed 4-8-81)