353.99 PARKING INFRACTION FINES.
   (a)   Any person who has been accused of a violation of Section 351.03(a) through (c) and (e) through (q), 351.04(a) and (c), 351.05, 351.09, 351.10. 351.11 or 351.14 may settle and compromise the accusation by paying the sum of ten dollars ($10.00) to the City within forty-eight hours from the time such offense is alleged to have been committed or by paying the sum of twenty-five dollars ($25.00) to the City, after forty-eight hours from the time such offense is alleged to have been committed. Police officers are authorized to delay prosecution of the violation until forty-eight hours have passed.
   (b)   Any person who has been accused of a violation of Sections 351.03, 351.04(a) and (c), 351.05, 351.09, 351.10, 351.11, or 351.14, if the hearing officer determines, from a preponderance of evidence and testimony presented at the hearing, that the person committed the parking infraction, shall be fined not less than ten dollars ($10.00) nor more than fifty dollars ($50.00).
 
      (c)    Any person who violates Section 351.04(f) (l) is guilty of Parking or Standing in a Handicapped Parking Space and shall be fined not less than two hundred fifty dollars ($250.00) nor more than five hundred dollars ($500.00).
 
   (d)   Any person who has been accused of a violation of Section 1509.04 of Part Fifteen – Fire Prevention or Section 351.03 (d) or (r) may settle and compromise the accusation by paying the sum of forty dollars ($40.00) within forty-eight hours from the time such offense is alleged to have been committed or by paying the sum of sixty dollars ($60.00) to the City after forty-eight hours from the time such offense is alleged to have been committed. Police officers are authorized to delay prosecution of the violation until forty-eight hours have passed.
   (e)   Violation of Section 1509.04 of Part Fifteen – Fire Prevention Code or Section 351.03(d) or (r) or Section 351.04(a), (c) or (g), if the hearing officer determines, from a preponderance of the evidence and testimony presented at the hearing, that the person committed the parking infraction shall be fined not less than forty dollars ($40.00) nor more than one hundred dollars ($100.00).
(Ord. 63-07. Passed 4-23-07; Ord. 24-23. Passed 2-13-23; Ord. 125-24. Passed 6-24-24.)