(a) Payment of Judgments. Payment of any judgment or default judgment entered against a person pursuant to this Chapter shall be made to the Parking Violations Bureau Clerk or his designee within ten (10) days of entry. All money paid in satisfaction of a judgment or default judgment shall be disbursed by the Clerk to the City's General Fund, and the Clerk shall enter the fact of payment of the money and its disbursement in the records of the Bureau. If payment is not made within the required ten (10) days, the Parking Violation Bureau may assess an additional penalty, as set forth in the fee schedule found in Section 353.12 of this Chapter. The judgment or default judgment may then be filed with the Clerk of the Marietta Municipal Court, and when so filed, shall have the same force and effect as a money judgment in a civil action rendered in the Court.
(b) Judgments Filed with the Marietta Municipal Court. Judgments and default judgments filed with a court pursuant to this division shall be maintained in accordance with Ohio R.C. 4521.08(C). When a judgment or default judgment is filed with the Court, execution may be levied, and such other measures may be taken for its collection as are authorized for the collection of an unpaid money judgment in a civil action rendered in the Court. The Marietta Municipal Court may assess costs against the judgment debtor, in an amount not exceeding ten dollars ($10.00) for each parking violation, to be paid upon satisfaction of the judgment.
(c) Appeals. Any person against whom a judgment or default judgment is entered pursuant to Section 353.07, and the City if a judgment is entered against it pursuant to Section 353.07, may appeal the judgment or default judgment to the Marietta Municipal Court if the judgment or default judgment was entered by the bureau, or to the Washington County Juvenile Court if the judgment or default judgment was entered by a referee of the Juvenile Court, by filing notices of appeal with the Parking Violations Bureau or the referee of the Juvenile Court, and the Marietta Municipal Court or the Clerk of the Juvenile Court within fifteen (15) days of the date of entry of the judgment and by the payment of such reasonable costs as the Marietta Municipal Court or the Washington County Juvenile Court requires. Upon the filing of an appeal, the applicable court shall schedule a hearing date and notify the parties of the date, time, and place of the hearing. The hearing shall be held by the applicable court in accordance with the rules of the court. Service of a notice of appeal under this subsection by a person does not stay enforcement and collection of the judgment or default judgment from which appeal is taken by the person unless the person who files the appeal posts bond with the Parking Violations Bureau or the Washington County Juvenile Court in the full amount of the judgment, plus court costs, at or before the service of the notice of appeal. Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the judgment on appeal of the Marietta Municipal Court or the Washington County Juvenile Court is final, and no other appeal of the judgment of the Parking Violations Bureau, or the referee of the Juvenile Court, whichever is applicable, and no appeal of the judgment of the Marietta Municipal Court or the Juvenile Court may be taken.
(d) Time for Filing Judgment. A judgment or default judgment entered pursuant to Section 353.07 may be filed with the Marietta Municipal Court under division (b) of this section at any time within three (3) years after the date of issuance of the parking ticket charging the parking violation out of which the judgment arose.
(Statutory Reference: ORC 4521.08)
(Ord. 230(20-21). Passed 6-3-21.)