Ordinance 470-77 - Laserfiche WebLink

s. - ' 1 Section 16: Parking Violations Constituting a Public Nuisance - Abatement 2 The City Council finds and declares that any vehicle repeatedly parked in 3 parking spaces beyond the time established in the parking zone, or the time authorized by the use of parking meters, obstructs the freedom to 4 use such parking spaces by the general public for such limited parking purpose and thus constitutes a public nuisance. Such nuisance shall be 5 abated as follows: 6 1. Parking fines shall be levied as provided elsewhere in this municipal code. 7 2. The owner of record of any vehicle that has been cited for three or 8 more violations of the parking offenses specified herein in any one calendar month and/or ten or more violations of the parking 9 offenses specified herein in any twelve-month period, and said overtime parking citations have gone unpaid, shall be summoned to 10 appear before a hearing examiner for an abatement determination: 11 a. The offense of overtime parking beyond the time established by either a sign designating the time limit or by a parking 12 meter; and/ or 13 b. The offense of depositing or causing to be deposited in any parking meter a coin or coins for the purpose of increasing 14 or extending the parking time of any vehicle beyond the legal parking time which has been established; and/or 15 c. The offense of parking in restricted or prohibited areas of 16 alleys unless such parking is otherwise authorized pursuant to an alley service parking permit. 17 3. The hearings examiner shall make findings that: 18 a. The individual summoned is the owner or owners of record of 19 the vehicle; 20 b. The parking violations fulfill the necessary number within the appropriate time period; 21 c. The parking violations occurred within the City; 22 d. There are no defenses nor extenuating and mitigating 23 factors justifying a finding that the vehicle is not a public nuisance. 24 4. If the hearings examiner makes a finding that the vehicle is a 25 public nuisance, as defined herein, he shall require the registered owner thereof to pay a civil penalty of twenty dollars per violation. 26 If the registered owner fails to pay said fine (within a period of three calendar days), the vehicle shall be deemed forfeited to the 27 City and shall be removed to a specified City impoundment location by towing or other method by the City or its delegate from 28 wherever found within the City limits; provided that not- withstanding any provision of this section, the owner of record shall 29 have access to the judicial system as provided by law in order to appeal the findings of fact or conclusions of law of the hearings 30 examiner if such appeal is prosecuted before the expiration of fifteen days from the date of hearing. 31 32