§ 71.105 CITATION ON ILLEGALLY PARKED VEHICLE.

   Whenever a vehicle without an operator is found parked in violation of a restriction imposed by this chapter, the officer finding the vehicle shall take its license number and any other information displayed on the vehicle which may identify its owner, and shall conspicuously affix to the vehicle a traffic citation for the operator to answer to the charge against him or her or pay the penalty imposed within 72 hours during the hours and at a place specified in the citation.

(Ord. 378, passed 3-11-1985; Ord. 523, passed 9-13-2010)

§ 71.106 FAILURE TO COMPLY WITH TRAFFIC CITATION ATTACHED TO PARKED VEHICLE.

   If the operator does not respond to a traffic citation affixed to the vehicle within a period of five days, the City Recorder may send to the owner of the vehicle to which the traffic citation was affixed a letter, informing him or her of the violation and warning him or her that, in the event that the letter is disregarded for a period of five days, a warrant for his or her arrest will be issued.

(Ord. 523, passed 9-13-2010)

§ 71.107 OWNER RESPONSIBILITY.

   The owner of a vehicle placed in violation of a parking restriction shall be responsible for the offense, except where the use of the vehicle was secured by the operator without the owner’s consent.

(Ord. 523, passed 9-13-2010)

§ 71.108 REGISTERED OWNER PRESUMPTION.

   In a prosecution of a vehicle owner, charging a violation of a restriction on parking, proof that the vehicle at the time of the violation was registered to the defendant shall constitute a presumption that he or she was then the owner in fact.

(Ord. 523, passed 9-13-2010)

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