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Section 10: 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 (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 fire lane 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. B. The penalties set forth in subsection A except for subsection A.3 (disabled parking) will be reduced by seventy-five percent if paid in person to the municipal court during the city's business hours within twenty-four hours of the date of issuance, or mailed with a postmark within twenty-four hours of the date of issuance. In the event the municipal court is not open for business the day following the date of issuance, the violator can make payment on the next city business day and still receive the reduced penalty. C. The penalties set forth in subsection A except for subsection A.3 (disabled parking) will be reduced in half if the parking infraction is paid in person to the municipal court during the city's business hours after twenty-four hours but within fifteen days of the date of issuance, or mailed with a postmark after twenty-four hours but within fifteen days of date of issuance. In the event the municipal court is not open for business on the fifteenth day following the date of issuance, the violator can make payment on the next city business day and still receive the reduced penalty. D. Unless otherwise directed by the court, payment of all parking infractions shall be made to the municipal court and at such other locations as designated by the court. All proceeds derived from individuals charged with a violation of any of the provisions of this chapter shall be paid into the general fund of the city; however, the proceeds from the penalty for parking in a disabled space without the requisite permit, placard or license plate, or making inaccessible the access aisle located next to a disabled space will be retained by the city in accordance with RCW 46.16.381 and shall be used exclusively for law enforcement. E. Notwithstanding the language set forth in subsections B and C of this section, if a vehicle has been cited for more than three violations of this chapter and/or any other parking ordinance of the city within the three-hundred-sixty-five-day period immediately preceding a parking violation, said vehicle will not be eligible for reduction in the parking violation penalty set forth in subsections B and C of this section for a period of three hundred sixty-five days. Further, after receiving three tickets in three hundred sixty- 18