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(A) Ordinance violation notice requirements. Municipal civil infraction notices shall be issued and served by authorized township officials as provided by law. A municipal ordinance violation notice shall include, at minimum, all of the following:
(1) The violation;
(2) The time within which the person must contact the Bureau for the purposes of admitting or denying responsibility for the violation;
(3) The amount of the scheduled fines/costs for the violation;
(4) The methods by which the violation may be admitted or denied;
(5) The consequences of failure to pay the required fines/costs or contact the Bureau within the required time;
(6) The address and telephone number of the Bureau; and
(7) The days and hours that the Bureau is open.
(B) Denial of responsibility. Where a person fails to admit responsibility (without explanation) for a violation within the jurisdiction of the Bureau and pay the required civil fines/costs within the designated time period, the Bureau Clerk or other designated township official(s) shall advise the complainant to issue and file a municipal civil infraction citation for such violation with the court having jurisdiction of the matter. The citation filed with the court shall consist of a sworn complaint containing, at minimum, the allegations stated in the municipal ordinance violation notice and shall fairly inform the alleged violator how to respond to the citation. A copy of the citation may be served by first class mail upon the alleged violator at the alleged violator’s last known address. The citation shall thereafter be processed in the manner required by law.
(Prior Code, Ch. XXVII, § 4) (Ord. 98-02, passed 12-14-1998)
(A) Unless a different schedule of civil fines is provided for by an applicable ordinance, the civil fines payable to the Bureau upon admissions of responsibility by persons served with municipal ordinance violation notices shall be determined pursuant to the following schedule:
1st violation within 3-year period* | $50 |
2nd violation within 3-year period* | $125 |
3rd violation within 3-year period* | $250 |
4th violation or subsequent violation within 3-year period* | $400 |
NOTES TO TABLE: * Determined on the basis of the date of violation(s) |
(B) In addition to the above-prescribed civil fines, costs in the amount of $10 shall be assessed by the Bureau if the fine and costs are paid within ten days of the date of service of the municipal ordinance violation notice. Otherwise, costs of $20 shall be assessed by the Bureau.
(Prior Code, Ch. XXVII, § 5) (Ord. 98-02, passed 12-14-1998)
The Bureau Clerk, or other designated township official, shall retain a copy of all municipal ordinance violation notices and shall account to the Township Board once a month or at such other intervals as the Township Board may require concerning the number of admissions and denials of responsibility for ordinance violations within the jurisdiction of the Bureau and the amount of fines/costs collected shall be delivered to the Township Treasurer at such intervals as the Treasurer shall require and shall be deposited in the General Fund of the township.
(Prior Code, Ch. XXVII, § 6) (Ord. 98-02, passed 12-14-1998)
(A) Nothing in this subchapter shall be deemed to require the township to initiate its municipal civil infraction ordinance enforcement activity through the issuance of an ordinance violation notice.
(B) As to each ordinance violation designated as a municipal civil infraction, the township may, at its sole discretion, proceed directly with the issuance of a municipal civil infraction citation or take such other enforcement action as is authorized by law.
(Prior Code, Ch. XXVII, § 7) (Ord. 98-02, passed 12-14-1998)
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