The Planning Director or Zoning and Planning Technician may issue citation tags for the purpose of giving due notice to the person or persons responsible for violating any provisions of this chapter.
(a) The citation tag shall be in a form approved by the Director of Law and shall:
(1) Include a list of violations, referring to the section or sections of the Codified Ordinances violated, and specify remedial action which, if taken, will effect compliance with the provisions violated.
(2) Specify a time of forty-eight hours for performance of the remedial action.
(3) Be served on the owner in person. Such notice shall be deemed to be properly served upon the owner, in person, if a copy is posted in a conspicuous place in or on the vehicle affected.
(b) Any person failing to comply with a citation tag, and the requirements as herein provided, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and his/her vehicle is subject to towing and impoundment.
(c) The Planning Director or the Zoning and Planning Technician shall utilize any properly licensed towing enterprises to tow away and impound all vehicles in violation of the citation tag issued.
(d) The Planning Director or the Zoning and Planning Technician shall notify the owner(s) of where the vehicle(s) are impounded and the method of release, either verbally or by posted written notice in a conspicuous place on the premises from where the vehicles were towed if the owner(s) are absent at the time of towing.
(e) The Planning Director or the Zoning and Planning Technician shall notify the Police Department, in writing and on the appropriate forms of all vehicle(s) towed prior to the end of the day the vehicle(s) are towed.
(Ord. 11248/98. Passed 12-9-98.)