Ordinance 2826-05 - Laserfiche WebLink

• 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- five days, the penalty for each additional ticket beyond three received within said time period shall be as follows: 1. For each twenty-dollar penalty violation defined in subsection A of this section, the penalty shall be twenty-five dollars; 2. For each fifty-dollar penalty violation defined in subsection A of this section, the penalty shall be fifty-five dollars. After receiving six tickets in three hundred sixty-five days, the penalty for each additional ticket received within said time period shall be as follows: 1. For each twenty-dollar penalty violation defined in subsection A of this section, the penalty shall be fifty dollars; 2. For each fifty-dollar penalty violation defined in subsection A of this section, the penalty shall be sixty-five dollars. F. Additionally, there is a penalty for failure to respond to notice of a parking infraction within thirty days of the date of issuance, which shall be twenty-five dollars. G. For a second or subsequent violations of the disabled parking provisions of this chapter, in addition to the monetary fine, the violator must complete a minimum of forty hours of: 1. Community service for a nonprofit organization that serves the disabled community or persons having disabling diseases; or 2. Any other community service that may sensitize the violator to the needs and obstacles faced by persons who have disabilities. H. The court may not suspend more than one-half of any fine imposed for a disabled parking violation. 20