(a) The Parking Violations Bureau shall be established by the City of Chillicothe. The Parking Violations Bureau has jurisdiction over each parking infraction that occurs within the boundaries of the City. Notwithstanding any other provision of law to the contrary, each parking
infraction that occurs within the jurisdiction of the Parking Violations Bureau and the enforcement of such parking infraction shall be handled pursuant to and governed by the provisions of this chapter.
(b) A request to establish the Parking Violations Bureau shall be filed with the Clerk of the Chillicothe Municipal Court. Upon filing, the Court shall authorize the municipal corporation to establish a parking violations bureau. Upon grant of authority by the Court, the municipal corporation may establish a parking violations bureau.
(c) Costs relating to the operation of the Parking Violations Bureau shall be paid by the municipal corporation. Fines and penalties collected by the Parking Violations Bureau shall be disbursed to the municipal corporation. The Chillicothe Chief of Police shall act as the Hearing Officer and the Chillicothe Municipal Clerk of Courts shall act as Violations Clerk. The Hearing Examiner must be either an attorney licensed to practice law in the State of Ohio or must have been formerly employed in the law enforcement field.
(d) The fines, penalties, fees and costs established for a parking infraction shall be collected, retained and disbursed at the direction of the Violations Clerk if the parking infraction out of which the fines, penalties, fees and costs arose occurred within the jurisdiction of the Parking Violations Bureau. The Violations Clerk shall provide tickets as prescribed by the Safety Service Director for parking infractions to law enforcement or parking enforcement officers as needed in the Police Department or Engineering Department upon requisition by the Safety Service Director, Chief of Police or Engineering Department. Any person requisitioning tickets shall account to the Violations Clerk for all tickets requisitioned at such times as the Violations Clerk shall request. The fines, penalties, fees and costs collected by the Violations Clerk for a parking infraction shall be disbursed by the Violations Clerk to the City.
(Ord. 17-19. Passed 3-11-19.)