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A) Handicapped parking. Any person receiving a citation as a result of a violation of the handicapped parking provisions shall pay an assessment of $50, except as herein provided, if paid within 72 hours from the time of the violation to the Traffic Bureau of the town. In the event that any person who is charged with such a violation fails to pay as above provided, the person shall be charged in the Sellersburg Town Court and upon conviction shall be fined in accordance with § 10.99.
(B) Resident-only parking. It shall be unlawful for any person, firm or corporation to violate the resident only parking provision. Any such violation shall be subject to a penalty provided under § 10.99.
(C) Emergency lanes.
(1) Tow away. The Police Department and members of the Fire Department who are assigned to the Fire Prevention Bureau are authorized to remove and tow away, or have removed and towed away by any commercial towing service, any car or other vehicle illegally parked in the emergency lane. Vehicles so towed away for illegal parking shall be stored in a safe place and shall be restored to the owner or operator of the vehicle upon the payment of a fine of $35 and a reasonable charge for the commercial towing service. The fee shall be payable in the Traffic Violations Bureau.
(2) Fine; no tow away. The Police Department and members of the Fire Department who are assigned to the Fire Prevention Bureau are authorize in lieu of the tow away provisions contained in division (C)(1) above, to issue a parking violation ticket. The owner or operator of a vehicle that has been ticketed but not towed away, shall pay a fine of $50 at the Traffic Violations Bureau within seven days from the date of the violation. If the fine is not paid within seven days, the fine shall be $100. On the eighth day the Traffic Violations Bureau will notify the owner by regular mail that a fine is due. After 14 days the vehicle shall be towed in, if found anywhere in the town, and impounded until all fines are paid, including a reasonable charge for commercial tow-in service in addition to the fine, plus a reasonable storage fee for the storage of the impounded vehicle.
(D) Parking and traffic regulations. Any person(s), firm, or corporation who violates the parking and traffic regulations herein established or as a part of the traffic plan of any shopping center that has entered into an agreement with the town, is guilty of a violation and shall be fined in an amount not to exceed the penalty provided under § 10.99.
(E) Buses; loading/unloading zones. Whoever shall violate the parking or standing vehicles in designated school bus loading/unloading zones shall be subject to a fine not to exceed the penalty provided under § 10.99.
(Ord. 2005-002, passed 1-10-05)