(A) Service. Service of additional notices and/or determinations required under this section and chapter shall:
(1) Be sent to the registered owner or lessee of the cited vehicle at the address as is recorded with the Illinois Secretary of State, or if any notice to that address is returned as undeliverable, to the last known address recorded in a United States post office approved database;
(2) Be sent to the lessee of the cited vehicle at the address last known to the lessor of the cited vehicle at the time of the lease, or if any notice to that address is returned as undeliverable, to the last known address recorded in a United States post office approved database;
(3) Be sent by first class mail, postage prepaid; and
(4) Service of additional notices sent in accordance herewith shall be complete as of the date of deposit in the United States mail.
(B) Additional notices in standing, parking or compliance regulation actions. Upon the failure of the registered owner or lessee of a vehicle cited for a standing, parking or compliance regulation violation to either pay or request a hearing and/or appear at a hearing date assigned by the village or at the hearing set forth in the vehicular standing, parking, or compliance regulation violation notice, whichever is applicable, additional notice(s) shall be sent, as above set forth, and shall contain, but not be limited to, the following information:
(1) Date and location of violation cited in the vehicular standing, parking, compliance regulation violation notice.
(2) Particular standing, parking, compliance regulation or other regulation violated.
(3) Vehicle make and state registration.
(4) The fine and any penalty which may be assessed for late payment.
(5) Notice to the registered owner or lessee of their current status, other than paid in full.
(6) The date, time and place of the administrative hearing at which the alleged violation may be contested on its merits.
(7) Statement that failure to pay the fine and any applicable penalty or failure to appear at a hearing on its merits in the time and manner specified will result in a final determination of vehicle standing, parking, or compliance regulation liability for the cited violation in the amount of the fine and penalty indicated.
(B) Statement that upon the occurrence of a final determination of vehicular standing, parking, compliance violation(s) liability for the failure, and the exhaustion of, or the failure to exhaust, available administrative or judicial procedures for review, any unpaid fine or penalty will constitute a debt due and owing the village.
(C) Notice of final determination of liability. A notice of final determination of vehicular standing, parking, or compliance regulation liability shall be sent following an appearance by the violator and a determination of liability, or the failure to appear by the violator by the third and final hearing date and, in either case, upon the conclusion of any administrative and/or judicial review proceedings or the expiration of the time to file for same, as is hereinafter set forth. The notice shall contain, but not be limited to, the following information and warnings:
(1) A statement that the unpaid fine and any penalty assessed is a debt due and owing the village.
(2) A warning that to pay the fine and any penalty due and owing the village within the time specified may result in the village's filing a complaint in the Circuit Court to have the unpaid fine or penalty rendered a judgment in accordance with ILCS Ch. 625, Act 5, § 11-208.3, incorporated herein by reference.
(3) A warning that the vehicle owned by the person and located within the village may be impounded for failure to pay fines or penalties for five or more vehicular standing, parking, or vehicle compliance regulation violations.
(Ord. 24-02, passed 1-22-24)