Any person, or his or her servant, agent or employee who owns, leases, conducts, uses or maintains any vehicle for illegally depositing, discarding, dumping and/or placing garbage, rubbish, recyclable discards, and/or green waste, and whose vehicle has been seized in accordance with this Chapter may request to execute a voluntary settlement agreement with the City for the return of the Vehicle. However, nothing in this Section shall require the City to follow these alternative settlement procedures.
Such request shall be made in writing to the City Attorney. The minimum amount of the settlement agreement shall be sufficient to cover all of the City's reasonable administrative costs, including attorneys' fees and personnel time for the seizure and forfeiture action. The costs, salary and expenses of the City Attorney and members of the City Attorney's office in enforcing this ordinance on behalf of the City shall be considered as "attorneys' fees" for the purposes of this section. The executed settlement agreement shall be accompanied by the appropriate settlement fee amount in the form of a money order, cash or cashier's check. All settlement funds shall be distributed as set forth in section 8.39.110(B) and (C).