(A) Any person accused of a violation of an ordinance restricting the length of time a vehicle may be parked in a designated area or prohibiting parking a vehicle in a designated area, with the exception of a person charged with violating § 24-6-3, may settle and compromise the claim against him or her for such illegal parking by paying to the city $25 for each offense. Such payment may be made at the City Hall, and a receipt shall be issued for all money so received, and such money shall be promptly turned over to the Treasurer to be credited to the sidewalk fund. The members of the Police Department are hereby authorized to refrain from instituting a prosecution for the alleged offense involved for at least 24 hours.
(B) This section shall not apply to persons parking a vehicle so as to obstruct the entrance or exit of any place where Police or Fire Department apparatus or other emergency equipment is kept housed, or so as to block an emergency entrance in a hospital. Additionally, this section shall not apply to any person charged with parking a vehicle so as to entirely obstruct traffic in any street or alley or parking in such a way as to reduce traffic on an arterial street to one-way traffic only; nor to any person who refuses to move a vehicle illegally parked at the request of any member of the Police Department.
(1993 Code, § 24-6-6) (Ord. 590, passed 6-6-1977; Am. Ord. 813, passed 12-18-1989; Am. Ord. 1535, passed 10-26-2009)