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The Town of Windsor adopts the provisions of Connecticut General Statutes § 8-12a, as it may be amended from time to time, for the purpose of establishing penalties for violations of the Zoning Regulations of the Town of Windsor.
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(a) 
The Town Manager of the Town of Windsor, or his designee, shall issue a written notice to any person who violates any provision of the Zoning Regulations of the Town of Windsor. No written notice may be issued against the state or any state official or employee acting within the scope of his employment. Such written notice shall explain the nature of the violation and the steps required for compliance and shall allow a seventy-two-hour period within which to correct the violation or within which a written plan for correction shall be submitted to the Town Manager of the Town of Windsor, or his designee, setting forth a reasonable time period for correction of the violation as agreed upon by the Town Manager, or his designee. A written notice issued pursuant to this subsection shall be served:
(1) 
By hand-delivery, at which time the seventy-two-hour period shall begin; or
(2) 
By certified mail, return receipt requested, and by regular first-class mail. Three business days shall be allowed for mail delivery of the notice prior to the commencement of the seventy-two-hour period.
(b) 
Within two business days after the period for correction established in Subsection (a) expires, the Town Manager or his designee shall reinspect the subject property to determine compliance.
(c) 
If the violations set forth in the written notice have not been corrected at the time of reinspection, the Town Manager, or such person as authorized by the Town Manager, in his capacity as chief executive officer, shall issue a citation and fine for each violation by hand, by certified mail, return receipt requested, by leaving a true and attested copy of the citation at the usual place of abode or residence of the person in violation, or, in the case of a corporate or business entity, by delivery to the business address or the address of the statutory agent of said entity. No such fine shall be levied against the state or any state official or state employee acting within the scope of his employment. All citations issued pursuant to this section shall state the violation for which the citation is being issued, the fine imposed for the violation, the time period within which the fine must be paid, and an address for remittance of the fine. The Windsor Town Council shall periodically update the schedule of fines for violations by way of amendment to this article. The current fine for each violation shall be $150.
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(a) 
Any violation for which a citation is issued and which is not corrected within the time period specified in Section 14-49 shall be a new violation of the Zoning Regulations of the Town of Windsor, and every twenty-four-hour period thereafter in which the violation is not corrected shall constitute a new violation. For repeated violations of the same provision of the Zoning Regulations by the same person, the Town Manager or the person authorized by the Town Manager to issue citations shall not be required to provide the violator with another written notice or correction period and may immediately issue the citations and fines permitted by this article.
(b) 
The Town Manager of the Town of Windsor, or his designee, shall not be responsible for a daily reinspection. Rather the person to whom the citation has been issued shall be responsible for reporting subsequent compliance by way of written report to the Town Manager of the Town of Windsor, or his designee. The Town Manager of the Town of Windsor, or his designee, shall reinspect to confirm compliance within one business day of receipt of such report.
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(a) 
All fines imposed under this article which are uncontested shall be made payable to the Town of Windsor and shall be received by the Town Manager, or his designee, within 10 business days from receipt of the citation. All fines collected by the Town Manager, or his designee, shall be directed to the Town Treasurer to be deposited into the Town of Windsor Open Space Fund.
(b) 
If no payment is received for any fine imposed under this article within the time allowed for payment, then the Town Manager, or his designee, shall act in accordance with the procedures established in Chapter 2, Article VI, of the Windsor Code of Ordinances.
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The procedure for admitting liability to a violation under this article and the hearing procedure for any citation issued pursuant to this article shall be in accordance with the provisions set forth in Chapter 2, Article VI, of the Windsor Code of Ordinances.
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(a) 
The penalties established by this article shall not be exclusive of any other enforcement remedy which may be imposed by the Town Manager, or his designee, for violations of the Zoning Regulations of the Town of Windsor, as authorized by any state statute, Town ordinance, or the Zoning Regulations of the Town of Windsor or otherwise any other penalty that may be imposed by any local, state or federal agency.
(b) 
In construing this article, feminine or neuter pronouns shall be substituted for those of masculine form and vice versa, and the plural of the singular and singular of the plural shall be substituted in any case in which the context may require.