(a) The City Manager is authorized and directed to supply the Police Department with citation tags for the purpose of giving notice to persons violating any provisions of this chapter or of other laws or ordinances regulating parking of vehicle equipment. Such notice may be given by delivering such tag to the violator, or by affixing it to the vehicle by means of which the violation occurred. The citation tag shall direct the violator to appear and to present the tag at a designated place in the City at or before a date and hour specified thereon, and shall set forth the fine fixed as a penalty for such violation, together with any increase in such fine established by this code for payment after a specified period of time. Nothing in this section shall be construed to abridge the power of a police officer to arrest any violator and take him into custody.
(b) Any person to whom a citation tag has been issued and who wishes to contest his guilt of the violation charged in such citation tag may, within the period of time specified for payment of such tag, register such citation tag with the City Clerk for hearing in the next session of the Mayor’s Court. Such hearing shall be conducted in accordance with the procedure established by law for trials in Mayor’s Courts. Payment of a citation tag without registering it for a hearing in the Mayor’s Court shall constitute a plea of guilty to the offense charged in the citation tag. (Ord. 1972-40. Passed 11-14-72.)