The Police Department shall have authority to issue parking tickets as follows.
(A) It shall be the duty of the Police Department upon observing a vehicle parked, standing or stopped in violation of the provisions of this chapter, to leave at or upon such vehicle a notice that such vehicle has been parked or stopped in violation of the provisions of this chapter. Among other things, the notice shall bear the date and hour of leaving the same at or upon the vehicle, make of the vehicle, and its license number, the specific code section violated and the amount of the fine, instructing the owner or operator of such vehicle to report to the Clerk’s office. The notice herein mentioned shall be filed as follows: one copy shall be retained by the police officer leaving such ticket upon a vehicle, one copy shall be filed with the Clerk’s office.
(B) In order to eliminate burdening courts with violations of ordinances and to eliminate insofar as possible public inconvenience, each person receiving a parking ticket under this chapter left upon his or her vehicle shall:
(1) Within seven days of the time of such notice, pay to the Clerk’s office in full satisfaction of such violation, a fee to be set by resolution for each notice left upon his or her vehicle; and
(2) Within ten days from the date of the parking violation ticket, if same has not been paid within the seven days above prescribed, pay to the Clerk’s office an additional fee for each such notice left upon his or her vehicle, the additional fee as set by resolution for each ticket being deemed necessary to defray administrative and clerical expenses. Payments may be made either in person or by mail. The failure of any operator to report and/or make such payments to the Clerk’s office within the times prescribed above shall render the operator thereof subject to penalties as provided by § 71.99 of this chapter.
(C) If any vehicle is found stopped, standing or parked in any manner violative of the provisions of this chapter and the identity cannot be determined, the owner or person or corporation in whose name the vehicle is registered or the named lessee in a rental or lease agreement of the vehicle shall be held prima facie responsible for the violation.
(Prior Code, § 6-2-13) (Ord. 80-447, passed 11-3-1980)