(a) The parking ticket adopted in Section 458.05 shall be used by law enforcement officers in all cases in which a person is charged with committing a parking infraction within the City. The parking ticket shall be the summons and complaint.
(b) (1) A law enforcement officer who issues a parking ticket for a parking infraction shall complete the ticket and constructively serve the parking ticket upon the owner of the vehicle by affixing the ticket to the vehicle in a conspicuous place.
(2) Constructive service of a parking ticket upon an owner of a vehicle by affixation as provided in division (b)(1), or by the procedure described in division (d) of this section has the same force and effect, and potentially subjects both parking infractions, if different, to the same fine and the same penalties, fees, and costs for failure to timely answer or to appear, if a hearing is requested, as if the parking ticket were personally served on both the owner and operator of the vehicle at the time of the violation.
(c) The original of a parking ticket issued pursuant to this section or any true copy of it shall be considered a record kept in the ordinary course of business of the City and of the law enforcement agency whose officer issued it, and shall be prima facie evidence of the facts it contains.
(d) An operator of a vehicle who is not the owner of the vehicle, but who operates it with the express or implied permission of the owner, is the agent of the owner for purposes of the receipt of parking tickets served in accordance with this section and personal service of a parking ticket upon the operator in accordance with this section constitutes constructive service upon the owner.
(e) When a parking ticket is issued for a parking infraction and is served pursuant to this section, the operator of the vehicle whose act or omission resulted in the parking infraction for which the ticket was issued and the owner of the vehicle involved in the parking infraction, if different, are jointly liable for the parking infraction and any fine, penalty, fees, and costs arising out of the parking infraction. Any owner of a vehicle who pays any fine, penalty, fee, and cost imposed for a parking infraction may recover the amount paid from the operator of the vehicle whose act or omission resulted in the infraction.
(f) No person upon whom a parking ticket charging a parking infraction is personally or constructively served shall be arrested as a result of the commission of the parking infraction.
(g) A parking infraction shall not be considered a criminal offense for any purpose.
(Ord. 35-01. Passed 12-3-01.)