(a) (1) The administrative adjudication process for parking, stopping and standing violations shall be initiated by the issuance of a parking citation which may be issued by a peace officer or other authorized parking enforcement agent. Authorized parking enforcement agents shall include any police officer, traffic control technician, city marshal or other employee or volunteer of the city designated by the chief of police, city marshal or the city manager to enforce the provisions of this code in regard to the parking, stopping or standing of vehicles.
(2) Consistent with the provision of this section and with state law, the city manager is authorized to establish, under the direction of the chief of police, the accessible parking volunteer enforcement program, utilizing volunteers to enforce the provisions of this code concerning disability parking.
(b) A parking citation must be served personally upon the operator of a vehicle, if present at the time of service. If the operator of the vehicle is not present at the time of issuance of the citation and cannot be personally served, the citation must be served upon the registered owner of the vehicle by affixing the citation to the vehicle in a conspicuous place or by mailing the citation to the registered owner of the vehicle by first class mail.
(c) The citation shall provide that the registered vehicle owner or operator charged with a parking, stopping or standing offense shall have the right to an instanter hearing to determine the issue of liability for the charged offense. Such right to a hearing shall be exercised by appearing in person before a hearing officer within 21 calendar days from the date of the citation at such convenient and reasonable hours as may be determined by the municipal court clerk, said hours to be printed on the parking citation. The twenty-first calendar day shall be the last day to respond to a parking citation, and shall be known as the appearance date.
(d) The original or any copy of the citation is a record kept in the ordinary course of business in the city and is rebuttable proof of the facts it contains.
(e) Failure of the registered vehicle owner or operator to answer the parking citation and contest liability, on or before the appearance date is considered an admission of liability for the parking violation charge and will result in the assessment of fines, costs and fees.
(Ord. 10107, § 2, passed 5-3-1988; Ord. 10160, § 2, passed 8-30-1988; Ord. 14860, § 1, passed 11-20-2001; Ord. 20858-08-2013, § 1, passed 8-13-2013; eff. 8-19-2013)