(A) There shall be created an Ordinance Violation Bureau, pursuant to I.C. 33-36-3-1 et seq., as amended, for the town.
(B) The town’s Clerk-Treasurer is appointed and shall serve as the Violation Clerk, who administers the Bureau.
(C) The Clerk-Treasurer and his or her staff, as his or her agents, shall accept written appearances, waivers of trial, admissions of violations and payment of civil penalties in the amount and for the violation as provided below.
(D) The following provisions of the code shall be subject to the jurisdiction of the Ordinance Violation Bureau and the first violations within a calendar year of provisions shall be subject to the civil penalty set forth in the ordinance codified herein, plus all necessary attorney’s fees and costs associated with collection. The second admission or judgment of a violation of the same ordinance or code provision within a calendar year shall be subject to double the penalty set forth below as the total civil penalty, plus all necessary attorney’s fees and costs associated with collection.
(E) The provisions of the code and the ordinances referred to herein are hereby amended to provide and declare the civil penalty scheduled with the said ordinance or code provision to be the specific civil penalty for the violation of said ordinance or code provision.
(F) Additional fees associated with all civil penalties for ordinance violations as set forth in division (D) above include all necessary attorney’s fees associated with enforcement of any ordinance and any and all costs incurred by the town in collecting.
(G) If any party should demand or require a court hearing on any ordinance violation and if the town should incur attorney’s fees in the enforcement of such ordinance violation, any person found to have committed any such ordinance violation shall reimburse the town its reasonable attorney’
(2013 Code, Title II, Ch. 3) (Ord. I-B-1-A(2), passed 9-8-1992; Ord. I-B-1-a(3), passed - -)