(A) Any person or operator receiving a notice of a parking violation established by the borough, by the Mayor of the borough, or established by the Motor Vehicle Code of the commonwealth, and who does not wish to contest said charge, may pay a fine as specified on the traffic tag to the Traffic Clerk within 72 hours after the time of the alleged violation, and no further proceedings shall be taken against said person. The fine shall be deposited in the borough fund for general borough purposes.
(B) If said fine is not paid within 72 hours after the time of the alleged violation, the police officer making the charge shall immediately file a complaint or information before the district justice and the violation shall be prosecuted in accordance with the procedures applicable to the violation of a borough ordinance in such cases where the alleged violation is a violation of a parking regulation of the borough, or in accordance with the procedures applicable to a violation of the Motor Vehicle Code of the commonwealth in the case where the alleged parking violation is a violation of said Motor Vehicle Code.
(C) The Mayor shall preside at Traffic Court. The owner or operator who appears at Traffic Court in response to the notice, provided for in division (B) above, may settle the charge before a hearing is held by paying $2 to the Traffic Clerk for the use of the borough.
(D) In case the operator appears and fails to settle the Mayor or Traffic Clerk shall hold a preliminary hearing to determine whether or not an information should be lodged. If he or she decides the evidence does not warrant the issuance of an information, the case shall be closed without further proceedings.
(E) If he or she decides an information should be lodged, the operator may settle the charge by paying $3 to the Traffic Clerk for the use of the borough.
(F) In case the owner or operator fails to appear at said session of Traffic Court, or having appeared fails to settle after a preliminary hearings, the officer who attached the tag to the vehicle shall lodge an information against him or her before a justice of the peace, who is acting as police magistrate, and thereafter the said justice of the peace shall follow procedure authorized for summary proceedings under the Vehicle Code.
(Ord. 263, passed 10-2-1950; Ord. 360, passed 5-2-1966; Ord. 3-1971, passed 10-4-1971; Ord. 9-1979, passed 10-1-1979)