452.18    ANSWER TO CHARGE.
   A person who is personally or constructively served with a parking ticket charging the commission of a parking infraction may answer the charge by appearing personally before the Violations Clerk of the Parking Violations Bureau or by telephone or mail to the Clerk. An answer shall be made within ten days from the date of the infraction and shall be in one of the following forms:
   (a)   An admission that the person committed the parking infraction, by payment of any fine arising out of the parking infraction;
   (b)   An admission that the person committed the parking infraction, with an explanation of the circumstances surrounding the parking infraction; or
   (c)   A denial that the person committed the parking infraction and a request for a hearing relative to the infraction. If the person desires the presence, at the hearing, of the law enforcement officer who issued the parking ticket, the person must request such officer's presence in his or her answer.
(Ord. 84-31. Passed 12-11-84; Ord. 93-8. Passed 3-23-93; Ord. 15-07. Passed 4-14- 15.)