Any recipient of an administrative citation may contest that there was a violation of the Tulare Municipal Code or state codes specifically adopted by reference in the applicable chapters of the Tulare Municipal Code or that he or she is the responsible person by completing a request for hearing form and returning it to the city within 15 working days from the issuance date of the administration citation, together with an advanced deposit (full amount) of the fine. Any administrative citation fine, which has been deposited, shall be refunded if it is determined, after a hearing, that the person charged in the administrative citation was not the responsible person for the violation(s) or that there was no violation(s) as charged in the administrative citation.
(1995 Code, § 1.61.070) (Ord. 04-1953, passed - -2004)