A. Upon failure of the registered owner or lessee of the cited vehicle to appear at the administrative hearing indicated in the vehicular standing, parking, or compliance regulation or automated traffic enforcement violation(s) notice(s) or upon final determination of violation liability, the traffic compliance administrator shall send or cause to be sent additional notices which shall be:
1. Sent to the registered owner of the cited vehicle at the address as is recorded with the secretary of state; if any notice to that address is returned as undeliverable, to the last known address recorded in the U.S. post office approved database or, under section 11-1306 of the vehicle code; or
2. Sent to the lessee of the cited vehicle at the address last known to the lessor of the cited vehicle at the time of the lease; if any notice to that address is returned as undeliverable, to the last known address recorded in a U.S. post office database; and
3. Sent by first class mail, postage prepaid.
B. Service of additional notices sent in accordance herewith shall be complete as of the date of deposit in the United States mail.
C. The additional notices sent in accordance herewith shall be in the following sequence and contain, but not be limited to, the following information:
1. Upon the failure of the registered owner or lessee of the cited vehicle to appear at the hearing set forth in the vehicular standing, parking, or compliance regulation or automated traffic enforcement violation(s) notice(s), additional notices shall be sent, as above set forth, and shall contain, but not be limited to, the following information:
a. Date and location of violation cited in the vehicular standing, parking, or compliance or automated traffic enforcement regulation violation(s) notice(s).
b. Particular standing, parking, or compliance or automated traffic enforcement regulation violated.
c. Vehicle make and state registration.
d. Fine and any penalty that may be assessed for late payment.
e. Notice to the registered owner or lessee of their current status, other than paid in full.
f. Date, time and place of the administrative hearing at which the alleged violation may be contested on its merits.
g. Statement that failure to either pay the fine and any applicable penalty or failure to appear at the hearing on its merits on the date and at the time and place specified will result in a final determination of vehicle standing, parking, or compliance regulation or automated traffic enforcement violation(s) liability for the cited vehicle violation in the amount of the fine and penalty indicated.
h. Statement that upon the occurrence of a final determination of vehicular standing, parking, or compliance or automated traffic enforcement violation(s) liability for the failure, and the exhaustion of, or the failure to exhaust, available administrative or judicial procedures for review, any unpaid fine or penalty will constitute a debt due and owing the village.
2. A notice of final determination of vehicular standing, parking, or compliance or automated traffic law violation(s) liability shall be sent following an appearance by the violator and a determination of liability or the failure to appear by the violator by the third and final hearing date upon conclusion of any administrative and/or judicial review, as is hereinafter set forth, and the notice shall contain, but not be limited to, the following information and warnings:
a. A statement that the unpaid fine and any penalty assessed is a debt due and owing the village.
b. A warning that failure to pay the fine and any penalty due and owing the village within the time specified may result in the village's filing a complaint in the circuit court to have the unpaid fine or penalty rendered a judgment in accordance with 625 Illinois Compiled Statutes 5/11-208.3(f), incorporated herein by reference.
c. A warning that the person's driver's license may be suspended for failure to pay fines or penalties for ten (10) or more vehicular standing or parking violations under 625 Illinois Compiled Statutes 5/6-306.5, incorporated herein by reference or five (5) or more automated traffic law violations under section 11-208.6.
d. A warning that the vehicle owned by the person and located within the village may be impounded for failure to pay fines or penalties for one or more vehicular standing, parking or compliance regulation violation(s) or one or more automated traffic law violations under section 11-208.6.
3. A notice of impending suspension of a person's driver's license shall be sent to any person determined to be liable for the payment of any fine or penalty that remains due and owing on ten (10) or more vehicular standing, parking or compliance regulation violations or five (5) or more automated traffic law violations.
a. The notice shall state that the failure to pay the fine or penalty owing within forty five (45) days of the date of the notice will result in the village's notifying the secretary of state that the person is eligible for initiation of suspension proceedings under 625 Illinois Compiled Statutes 5/6-306.5 incorporated herein by reference.
b. The notice of impending driver's license suspension shall be sent by first class mail, postage prepaid, to the address recorded with the secretary of state.
c. The notice shall also state that the person may obtain a photostatic copy of an original ticket imposing a fine or penalty by sending a self-addressed stamped envelope to the municipality along with a request for a photostatic copy. (Ord. 09-1032, 2-3-2009)