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ADMINISTRATION AND ENFORCEMENT
Whenever by this or any other chapter any parking time limit is imposed or parking is prohibited in designated streets, there shall be appropriate signs giving notice thereof. No parking regulations shall be effective unless the signs are erected and in place at the time of any alleged offense.
(Ord. 41, passed 5-7-1992)
If any vehicle shall be found parked in violation of any of the provisions of this chapter, it shall be the duty of the Chief of Police or other police officers of the city to attach to the vehicle a notice to the owner or operator thereof, if the owner or operator is absent, or to deliver to the owner or operator, if he or she is present, a notice to the effect that the vehicle has been parked in violation of a provision of this chapter and directing the owner or operator to report to the city office in regard to the violation.
(Ord. 41, passed 5-7-1992)
The person actually operating or in control of the operation of the vehicle at the time that the vehicle is parked shall be charged with the duty of complying with the provisions of this chapter; provided, that proof of ownership of any vehicle found parked in violation of this chapter shall be prima facie evidence that the owner parked the vehicle.
(Ord. 41, passed 5-7-1992)
(A) Police officers are hereby authorized to remove a vehicle from a street or highway to the nearest garage or other place of safety, or to a garage designated or maintained by the Police Department or otherwise maintained by the city, under the circumstances enumerated below:
(1) When any vehicle is left unattended on any bridge, viaduct, or causeway, or in any other place where the vehicle constitutes an obstruction to traffic;
(2) When a vehicle on a highway is so disabled as to constitute an obstruction to traffic and the person or persons in charge of the vehicle are by reason of physical injury incapacitated to such an extent as to be unable to provide for its custody or removal; and
(3) When any parked vehicle is left unattended on a street and is parked illegally so as to constitute a definite hazard or obstruction to the normal movement of traffic.
(B) Whenever an officer removes a vehicle from a street as authorized in division (A) of this section, and the officer knows or is able to ascertain from the registration records in the vehicle the name and address of the owner thereof, the officer shall immediately give or cause to be given notice to the owner of the fact of the removal and the reasons therefore and of the place to which the vehicle has been removed.
(Ord. 41, passed 5-7-1992)
(A) Any person violating any provision of this title for which no specific penalty is prescribed shall be subject to § 10.99.
(B) An owner or operator of a vehicle may, within five days from the time the notice referred to in § 71.46 was attached to the vehicle or delivered to the owner or operator, pay to the city, as a civil penalty for the offense indicated in the notice, the sum of $10, with the exception of handicapped parking violations being the sum of $25. Failure of the owner or operator of the vehicle to appear and pay the penalty with five days shall subject the offender to the penalties provided in G.S. § 14-4(b).
(Ord. 41, passed 5-7-1992)