(A) (1) Whenever any motor vehicle is found parked in violation of any of the parking restrictions of this chapter, a police officer, parking control attendant or community service officer finding it shall affix conspicuously to such vehicle or serve upon the person operating same, a written notice.
(2) Such notice shall be made out on duplicate form and shall indicate thereon the time and place of such violation, make of vehicle and any other information that may be necessary to a thorough understanding of the circumstances attending such violation.
(3) Such notices shall consist of an envelope which shall have printed thereon that the vehicle has been parked in violation of this chapter, and instructions to the owner or operator to report to the Police Department in regard to said violation or to insert in an envelope used as a traffic violation ticket, the sum of money in the amount duly established by the Council from time to time, in a parking violation fee box or mailed to the Police Department.
(B) Persons who have received notices as provided in this section may, within the time specified in such notices, answer at the Police Department the charges set forth in said notice, or in lieu thereof, shall place such sum of money in said envelope and deposit same as provided in this chapter, which acts shall constitute a payment of said parking fee, and waiver of notice of hearing thereon, and the acceptance thereby by the Police Department shall be deemed complete satisfaction for the violation.
(C) It shall be the duty of the Police Department to keep account of the violations of this chapter, and make such reports thereon as the Council may require.
(1992 Code, § 700:50)