(a) Upon failure of the registered owner or lessee of the cited vehicle to appear at the administrative hearing indicated in the vehicular standing, parking, or compliance regulation violation notice, or upon final determination of violation liability or notice of impending driver's license suspension, the Traffic Compliance Administrator shall send or cause to be sent additional notices which:
(1) Shall be sent to the registered owner or lessee of the cited vehicle at the address recorded with the 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) Shall 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) Shall be sent by first class mail, postage prepaid.
(4) Shall be complete as of the date of deposit in the United States mail.
The notices shall be in the following sequences as set forth in subsections (b), (c) and (d) below.
(b) Second and third notices of parking, standing or compliance violation. Each such notice shall contain, but not be limited to the following information:
(1) The date and location of the violation cited in the vehicular standing, parking or compliance regulation violation notice.
(2) The particular standing, parking or compliance regulation violated.
(3) The vehicular make and state registration number.
(4) The fine and any penalty that may be assessed for late payment.
(5) Notice to the registered owner or lessee of his/her 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) A statement that failure to either pay the fine and any applicable penalty, or failure to appear at the hearing on its merits on the date and at the time and place specified, will result in a final determination of vehicular standing, parking or compliance regulation violation liability for the cited violation in the amount of the fine and penalty indicated.
(8) A statement that upon the occurrence of a final determination of vehicular standing, parking or compliance violation 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) A notice of final determination of parking, standing, or compliance regulation violation liability. This notice shall be sent following an appearance by the violator and a determination of liability, or following the failure to appear by the violator by the third and final hearing date upon conclusion of any administrative and/or judicial review, as is set forth below, and shall contain, but not be limited to, the following information.
(1) A statement that the unpaid fine and any penalty assessed is a debt due and owing the Village.
(2) A warning that failure to pay the fine and any penalty due and owing the Village within the time specified may result in the Village's filing of a complaint in the Circuit Court of Cook County to have the unpaid fine or penalty rendered a judgment in accordance with 625 ILCS 5/ll-208.3(f).
(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 three or more vehicular standing, parking or compliance regulation violations.
(4) A warning that the person's driver's license may be suspended for failure to pay fines or penalties for ten or more vehicle standing or parking violations under 625 ILCS 5/6-306.5.
(d) A notice of impending driver's license suspension. A notice of impending suspension of a person's driver's license shall be sent to any person determined to be liable for the payment of any fine or penalty that remains due and owing on ten or more vehicular standing or parking regulation violations, as follows:
(1) The notice shall state that failure to pay the fine or penalty within forty-five days of the date of the notice will result in the Village notifying the Secretary of State that the person is eligible for initiation of suspension proceedings under 625 ILCS 5/6-306.5.
(2) The notice shall also state that the person may obtain a copy of the original Notice of Violation and a copy of the Notice of Final Determination imposing a fine or penalty by sending a self-addressed, stamped envelope to the Village along with a request for the copy.
(3) The notice of impending driver's license suspension shall be sent by first class mail, postage prepaid, to the address recorded with the 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.
(Ord. 833. Passed 8-22-94; Ord. 1651. Passed 10-9-17.)