The purpose of this chapter is to provide a Township Civil Infraction
Bureau for the purpose of accepting admissions of responsibility for ordinance
violations designated as civil infractions for which Township ordinance violation
notices have been issued and served by authorized officials; to collect and
retain civil fines/costs for such violations as prescribed herein; and to
repeal all conflicting ordinances or parts of ordinances.
The Township Clerk and/or those persons authorized by the Township Board
shall retain a copy of all Township ordinance violation notices and shall
account to the Township Board once a month or at such other intervals as the
Township Board may require concerning the number of admissions and denials
of responsibility for ordinance violations within the jurisdiction of the
Bureau and the amount of fines/costs collected with respect to such violations.
The civil fines/costs collected shall be delivered to the Township general
fund.
Nothing in this chapter shall be deemed to require the Township to initiate
it's Township ordinance enforcement activity through the issuance of
an ordinance violation notice. As to each ordinance violation designated as
a Township civil infraction, the Township may, at it's sole discretion,
proceed directly with the issuance of a Township ordinance violation citation
or take such other enforcement action as is authorized by law.