(a) If a person charged with a parking violation shows good cause for not attending a hearing, either personally or through a representative, the hearing officer may permit the matter to be adjudicated by mail, which adjudication must be completed within 90 calendar days of the date of the citation.
(b) Letters, memoranda, affidavits, photographs, and other documentary materials shall be admissible as evidence for the purposes of adjudication by mail. The hearing officer may exclude from consideration any material that is not relevant to the adjudication of the alleged violation.
(c) Failure of the person charged to proceed with an adjudication by mail after requesting and receiving permission to adjudicate by mail is an admission by the person charged of liability for the parking violation and shall subject the person who requested the adjudication by mail to the appropriate civil fines, penalties, and costs assessed by the hearing officer.
(d) If a hearing officer determines that an adjudication cannot proceed by mail, the hearing officer shall advise the person charged by first class mail that the person must appear to answer the charge at a hearing. (Ord. Nos. 20012; 21612)