§ 70.22  PAYMENT IN LIEU OF CHARGES.
   (A)   The owner or operator of a vehicle who has been notified of a violation of the provisions specified in § 70.20 shall, within 72 hours after having been notified, present himself, with the notice, at the police station.  For the first violation within a period of 12 months (constituting a calendar year) of any of the specific provisions which he is willing to admit having violated, he shall pay to the Clerk-Treasurer a fee of $1; for the second violation of any of the specified provisions within the calendar year, a fee of $2; and for each subsequent violation of the specified provisions within the calendar year, a fee of $5.
      (1)   Those admitting to a violation for the first such violation in a calendar year, a fee or fine of $25 shall be assessed.
      (2)   For the second violation of any specified provision within the calendar year, a fee or fine of $50 shall be assessed.
      (3)   And each subsequent violation of the specified provision within the calendar year, a fee or fine of $100 shall be assessed.
   (B)   Every person appearing at the police station and paying the fees as provided for herein shall turn in the traffic violation notice which he received to the police station.  That office, after making proper index and clerical use of the notice, shall turn it over to the Clerk-Treasurer, whose duty it shall be to check it against the record of traffic violations put out by the police officers or other persons so charged, as ascertained by the Clerk-Treasurer from the duplicate reports turned in by these officers.
('80 Code, § 16-2) (Am. Ord. 3207, passed 8-2-99)