(A) Citation of illegally parked vehicle. Whenever any motor vehicle without a driver is found parked, standing or stopped in violation of any of the restrictions imposed by this chapter or by state law, the officer finding such vehicle shall take its registration number; take any other information displayed on the vehicle which may identify its user; and conspicuously affix to such vehicle a traffic citation, on a form provided by the Town Clerk-Treasurer, for the driver to answer to the charge against him or her within five days, during the hours and at a place specified in the citation.
(2008 Code, § 3.7.2)
(B) Failure to comply with traffic citation attached to parked vehicle. If a violator of the restriction on stopping, standing or parking under the traffic laws does not appear in response to a traffic citation affixed to such motor vehicle within a period of five days, the Town Clerk-Treasurer shall send to the owner of the motor vehicle to which the traffic citation was affixed a letter informing him or her of the violation and warning him or her that, in the event such letter is disregarded for a period of 14 days, a warrant of arrest will be issued.
(2008 Code, § 3.7.3)
(C) Presumption in reference to illegal parking. In any prosecution charging a violation of any law governing the standing or parking of a vehicle proof that the particular vehicle described in the complaint was parked in violation of any such law together with proof that the defendant named in the complaint was, at the time of such parking, the registered owner of such vehicle, shall constitute in evidence of prima facie presumption that the registered owner of such vehicle was the person who parked or placed such vehicle at the point where, and for the time during which, such violation occurred.
(2008 Code, § 3.7.4)
(D) Disposition of traffic fines. All fines collected upon conviction or upon admission of judgment of any person charged with a violation of any of the provisions of this chapter shall be paid into the town treasury and deposited in the General Fund.
(2008 Code, § 3.7.5)
(E) Official misconduct. Failure, refusal or neglect on the part of any judicial or other officer or employee receiving or having custody of any such fine, either before or after a deposit in the General Fund, to comply with the foregoing provisions of this chapter shall constitute misconduct in office and shall be grounds for removal therefrom.
(2008 Code, § 3.7.6)
(F) Duties of Town Attorney. The Town Attorney or his or her duly appointed deputy is authorized to prosecute all charges of violation of this chapter.
(2008 Code, § 3.7.7)
Cross-reference:
Penalties, see § 10.99