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Whenever any police officer finds a vehicle standing upon a street in violation of any provision of this traffic code, the officer is hereby authorized to require the driver or other person in charge of the vehicle to remove it to a position off the paved, improved, or main-traveled part of the street. However, if any person so directed shall fail or refuse to move the vehicle or if the vehicle is unattended, then the officer is hereby authorized to provide for the removal of the vehicle to the nearest available garage or other place of safety.
(Ord. 1981-6, passed 6-9-81)
(A) Whenever any motor vehicle without a driver is found parked, standing, or stopped in violation of any of the restrictions imposed by ordinance of the town or by state law, the officer finding the vehicle shall take its registration number; take any other information displayed on the vehicle which may identify its user; and conspicuously affix to the vehicle a traffic citation on a form provided by the Town Clerk-Treasurer, for the driver to answer to the charge against him within five days, during the hours and at a place specified in the citation.
(B) If a violator of the restrictions on stopping, standing, or parking under the traffic laws does not appear in response to a traffic citation affixed to his motor vehicle within a period of five days, the Town Clerk-Treasurer shall send to the owner of the motor vehicle to which the traffic citation was affixed a letter informing him of the violation and warning him that, in the event the letter is disregarded for a period of five days, a warrant of arrest will be issued.
(Ord. 1981-6, passed 6-9-81)
In any prosecution charging a violation of any law governing the standing or parking of a vehicle, proof that the particular vehicle described in the complaint was parked in violation of any such law together with proof that the defendant named in the complaint was, at the time of the parking, the registered owner of the vehicle, shall constitute in evidence a prima facie presumption that the registered owner of the vehicle was the person who parked or placed the vehicle at the point where, and for the time during which, the violation occurred.
(Ord. 1981-6, passed 6-9-81)
Every person convicted of a violation of any parking provision of this traffic code, except as provided in Ch. 75, Sch. II, division (F), shall be punished by a fine of not more than $100. In lieu of appearing before a court of competent jurisdiction, the person so charged may pay, within five days to the Town Clerk-Treasurer for the benefit of the General Fund of the town, the sum of $10.