(A) County parking lot.
(1) When a ticket or citation for a violation of the County Parking Lot subchapter of this chapter is issued, the owner, operator or user of the vehicle to which the ticket or citation was attached shall pay the sum of $10 as a fine to the City of Elkhart, within 72 hours after the date shown on the ticket or citation. Should the fine not be paid within 72 hours after the date shown on the ticket or citation, the fine due and owing shall then increase to the sum of $25. Further, at any time after the fine has increased to $25, the City of Elkhart, through its agents and employees, shall be authorized and empowered to process in a court of competent jurisdiction a complaint, information or affidavit against the registered owner of the vehicle to which the traffic ticket or citation was issued and initially attached, charging the person with a violation of one or more of the provisions of the County Parking Lot subchapter of this chapter, and the owner, upon sufficient proof having been shown to the court as to the illegal or improper parking having occurred, shall become responsible for the court costs as to the illegal proceeding, in addition to the $25.
(2) All fines paid pursuant to the terms and provisions of the County Parking Lot subchapter of this chapter shall be and become the property of the City of Elkhart for use by it in carrying out the enforcement terms and provisions of the County Parking Lot subchapter of this chapter, and for any other purposes as its governing body or officials shall determine.
(Prior Code, § 9-21-16-5) (Ord. 14-109, passed 2-17-2014)
(B) Lagoon Road bridge area.
(1) Ordinance violations shall be enforced under proceedings brought pursuant to I.C. 34-28-5, as amended, in a manner similar to that of infractions with complaint and summons described in I.C. 9-30-3-6, as amended, issued by the County Sheriff’s Department or other police agency.
(2) Any person adjudged to have violated any provision of the Lagoon Road Bridge Area subchapter of this chapter by engaging in conduct prohibited or declared unlawful in § 71.40 hereof shall be fined no less than $100 but no more than $500 and shall be responsible for applicable court costs.
(Ord. 07-215, passed 5-7-2007; Ord. 08-480, passed 11-17-2008)