The following words, terms and phrases, when used in this article,
shall have the meanings ascribed to them in this section, except where
the context clearly indicates a different meaning:
AUTHORIZED TOWNSHIP OFFICIAL
A member of the Ottawa County Sheriff's Office, including
reserve officers, and/or any other personnel of the Township authorized
by ordinance or resolution to issue a parking violation notice, municipal
civil infraction citations or municipal civil infraction notices.
MOTOR HOME
Every motor vehicle designed, used or maintained primarily
for occasional or short-term occupancy as a dwelling unit during travel,
recreational, or vacation use.
MOTOR VEHICLE
Any device in, upon, or by which any person or property is
or may be transported or drawn upon a highway, excepting devices moved
by human power or used exclusively upon stationary rails or tracks,
which is self-propelled.
PARK
Standing a truck, school bus or motor home, whether occupied
or not, upon the right-of-way of a highway, road or street when not
lawfully loading or unloading or making necessary repairs.
PARKING VIOLATION NOTICE
A notice, other than a citation, directing a person to appear
at the violations bureau in the Township for which the notice is being
issued and pay the fine and costs, if any, prescribed by ordinance
for the parking or standing of a motor vehicle in violation of the
ordinance.
PARKING VIOLATIONS BUREAU
A violations bureau established by the Township to accept
parking violation notice admissions and to collect and retain fines
and costs as prescribed by ordinance.
SCHOOL BUS
Every motor vehicle, except station wagons, with a manufacturers'
rated seating capacity of eight or more children, owned by a public,
private or governmental agency and operated for the transportation
of children to or from school, or privately owned and operated for
compensation for the transportation of children to or from school.
TRAFFIC CONTROL SIGNAL
Any device, whether manually, electrically or mechanically
operated, by which traffic is alternately directed to stop and to
proceed.
TRUCK
Every motor vehicle designed, used or maintained primarily
for the transportation of property.
An authorized Township official may issue upon any vehicle or
person who shall violate a provision of this article or shall fail
to comply with any of the requirements thereof a parking violation
notice.
(1) A parking violation notice may be attached to a motor vehicle in
absence of a driver, and the registered owner of the motor vehicle
shall be considered responsible for the violation.
(2) A parking violation notice shall indicate the length of time a person
must respond to the violation before the Township violations bureau.
It shall also indicate the address of the bureau and the amount of
the penalty scheduled for the offense for which the parking violation
notice was issued. The parking violation notice will also indicate
that failure to pay or appear within the time limit indicated may
result in issuance of a warrant for such person's arrest or suspension
of such person's driver's license.
(3) Any parking violation notices not paid or responded to will result
in a municipal civil infraction citation being issued and forwarded
to the district court. A copy of the municipal civil infraction may
be personally served or served by first-class mail to the registered
owner of the vehicle at the owner's last known address. In addition,
a standardized letter will accompany the municipal civil infraction
citation indicating that the violation has been forwarded to the district
court, and failure to respond within the time frame indicated may
result in a warrant for the owner's arrest or suspension of the
owner's driver's license.
No person shall park a truck which has a load capacity in excess of three quarters ton or which is a semitrailer truck tractor and/or its trailer, a school bus or a motor home in any part or portion of the right-of-way of any highway, road or street which abuts (on either side or both sides) lands or premises in the Township zoned in a residential zone under the zoning regulations in Chapter
38 except when necessary to avoid conflict with other traffic or in compliance with law or the direction of a police officer or traffic control signal. Anyone who violates this section is responsible for a municipal civil infraction.
The following schedule of parking violations and fines is hereby
established:
(1) Violations of Sec.
32-47, Subsection(a)(1), (2), (3), (4), (5), (6), (9) and (10) shall be a fine of $50, payable at the parking violations bureau within 15 days of issuance.
(2) Violations of Sec.
32-47, Subsection (a)(7) and (8) shall be a fine of $100, payable at the parking violations bureau within 15 days of issuance.