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E. If any vehicle is found parked, standing or stopped in violation of this chapter or otherwise violates the provisions of this chapter, the officer or park ranger finding the vehicle shall take its registration (license) number and may take any other information displayed on the vehicle which may identify its user, and shall conspicuously affix to the vehicle a notice of parking infraction. A notice of parking infraction represents a determination that a parking violation has been committed. The determination will be final unless contested as provided in this chapter. F. Those responsible for the enforcement of the parking regulations of the city shall, and are authorized to identify such vehicles parked, standing or stopped from time to time to aid in the enforcement of this chapter. Such identification may be by electronic recording of the vehicle license plate, chalk upon the vehicle tires, or by some other convenient method but will not be injurious to or damage such vehicle. Any physical marks so placed shall not be interfered with, concealed, obliterated or erased by any person other than a police officer, parking enforcement officer or, in the case of city parks, a park ranger while the same shall remain parked or standing at the place where so marked. It shall constitute a parking infraction to interfere with, conceal, obliterate or erase any mark or other identification in violation of this chapter. Section 7. Section 27 of Ordinance No. 2180-96, as amended by Section 1 of Ordinance No. 2317-98, Section 2 of Ordinance No. 2395-99, Section 1 of Ordinance No. 2725-03 and Section 2 of Ordinance No. 2795-04 and Section 10 of Ordinance No. 2826-05 (EMC 46.28.270), which reads as follows: Penalties for parking infractions. A. Unless specifically set forth elsewhere in this chapter, the penalties for each violation of the provisions of this chapter shall be: 1. Overtime parking: twenty dollars; 2. Unauthorized parking in alley: twenty dollars; 3. Parking in disabled space without requisite permit, decal, or license plate, or making inaccessible the access aisle located next to a disabled space: two hundred fifty dollars; 4. Parking, stopping or standing in a marked fire lane or fire zone in violation of this chapter: fifty dollars; 5. Interfering with, concealing, obliterating or erasing marks in violation of this chapter: fifty dollars; 6. All other violations: twenty dollars.