A. Service: Service of additional notices and/or determinations required under this section and chapter shall:
1. Be sent to the registered owner or lessee of the cited vehicle at the address as is recorded with the Illinois secretary of state, or if any notice to that address is returned as undeliverable, to the last known address recorded in a United States post office approved database; or
2. Be sent to the lessee of the cited vehicle at the address last known to the lessor of the cited vehicle at the time of the lease, or if any notice to that address is returned as undeliverable, to the last known address recorded in a United States post office approved database; and
3. Be sent by first class mail, postage prepaid. Service of additional notices sent in accordance herewith shall be complete as of the date of deposit in the United States mail.
B. Additional Notices In Standing, Parking Or Compliance Regulation Actions: Upon the failure of the registered owner or lessee of a vehicle cited for a standing, parking or compliance regulation violation to either pay or request a hearing and/or appear at a hearing date assigned by the village or at the hearing set forth in the vehicular standing, parking, or compliance regulation violation notice, whichever is applicable, additional notice(s) shall be sent, as above set forth, and shall contain, but not be limited to, the following information:
1. Date and location of violation cited in the vehicular standing, parking, compliance regulation or automated traffic law violation notice.
2. Particular standing, parking, compliance regulation or other regulation violated.
3. Vehicle make and state registration.
4. Fine and any penalty that may be assessed for late payment.
5. Notice to the registered owner or lessee of their current status, other than paid in full.
6. The availability of an administrative hearing at which the alleged violation may be contested on its merits, and the time and manner in which the hearing may be had.
7. Statement that failure to either pay the fine and any applicable penalty or failure to appear at a hearing on its merits in the time and manner specified will result in a final determination of vehicle standing, parking, or compliance regulation liability for the cited violation in the amount of the fine and penalty indicated.
8. Statement that upon the occurrence of a final determination of vehicular standing, parking, compliance or automated traffic law violation(s) liability for the failure, and the exhaustion of, or the failure to exhaust, available administrative or judicial procedures for review, any unpaid fine or penalty will constitute a debt due and owing the village.
C. Notice Of Determination; Automated Traffic Law Violations: If the registered owner or lessee, if applicable, fails to pay or contest the notice of violation of an automated traffic law violation within fourteen (14) days, a notice of determination of default liability will be sent to the owner indicating that a fine in the amount of one hundred dollars ($100.00) is due to the village. The notice will also state that the owner can petition the village to set aside the determination of liability within fourteen (14) days. The judgment of default liability constitutes a final determination for purposes of judicial review. If the owner does not pay the one hundred dollars ($100.00) as specified in the notice or petition the village to set aside the determination within fourteen (14) days or exercise his or her right to judicial review within thirty five (35) days, a notice of final determination of liability will be mailed to the owner in conformance with subsection D of this section.
D. Notice Of Final Determination Of Liability: A notice of final determination of vehicular standing, parking, or compliance regulation liability shall be sent following an appearance by the violator and a determination of liability, or the failure to appear by the violator by the third and final hearing date and, in either case, upon the conclusion of any administrative and/or judicial review proceedings or the expiration of the time to file for same, as is hereinafter set forth. A notice of final determination of automated traffic law violations shall be sent following an appearance by the violator and a determination of liability, or following a notice of determination of liability as set forth above, and, in both cases, the conclusion of any administrative and/or judicial review proceedings or the expiration of the time to file for same. The notice shall contain, but not be limited to, the following information and warnings:
1. A statement that the unpaid fine and any penalty assessed is a debt due and owing the village.
2. A warning that failure to pay the fine and any penalty due and owing the village within the time specified may result in the village's filing a complaint in the circuit court to have the unpaid fine or penalty rendered a judgment in accordance with 625 Illinois Compiled Statutes 5/11-208.3(f), incorporated herein by reference.
3. A warning that the vehicle owned by the person and located within the village may be impounded for failure to pay fines or penalties for five (5) or more vehicular standing, parking, compliance regulation or automated traffic law violations.
4. A warning that the person's driver's license shall be suspended for failure to pay fines or penalties for ten (10) or more vehicular standing or parking violations under 625 Illinois Compiled Statutes 5/6-306.5, incorporated herein by reference or five (5) or more automated traffic law violations under 625 Illinois Compiled Statutes 5/11-208.6, incorporated herein by reference.
5. A warning that failure to pay the unpaid fine within fourteen (14) days will result in a late fee of one hundred dollars ($100.00) added to the original fine.
E. Suspension Notices: A notice of impending suspension of a person's driver's license shall be sent to any person determined to be liable for the payment of any fine or penalty that remains due and owing on ten (10) or more vehicular standing or parking regulation violations or five (5) or more unpaid automated traffic law violations:
1. The notice shall state that the failure to pay the fine or penalty owing within forty five (45) days of the date of the notice will result in the village's notifying the Illinois secretary of state that the person is eligible for initiation of suspension proceedings under 625 Illinois Compiled Statutes 5/6-306.5 or 11-208.6 incorporated herein by reference.
2. The notice shall also state that copies of the original violation notices imposing a fine or penalty are available by sending a self-addressed, stamped envelope to the village along with a request for copies.
3. The notice of impending driver's license suspension shall be sent by first class mail, postage prepaid, to the address recorded with the Illinois secretary of state, or, if any notice to that address is returned as undeliverable, to the last known address recorded in a United States post office approved database. (Ord. 10-2599, 11-22-2010)