[Adopted 4-18-1995 by Ord. No. 101]
It is hereby created for the City a Parking Violations Bureau,
pursuant to Act No. 154 of the Public Acts of 1968, as amended.[1]
[1]
Editor's Note: See MCLA § 600.8395.
The Parking Violations Bureau shall be in the charge of the
Chief of Police. The Bureau shall enforce, as hereinafter provided,
all non-moving traffic and/or parking violations as civil infractions
within the City and other regulations allowed by law. Each Patrol
Officer and Reserve Officer of the Police Department shall be members
of the Parking Violations Bureau to act in the absence of the Chief
of Police, and so shall any other employees of the City as designated
in writing by the City Manager. Such members shall be known as Parking
Enforcement Officials of the Parking Violations Bureau. The City Clerk
and City Treasurer, along with their duly appointed designees, shall
be members of the Parking Violations Bureau to act as the Treasurer
and/or Clerk of said Bureau in the absence of the Chief of Police
or any other Parking Enforcement Official for the collection of fines
and penalties.
Said Bureau is hereby authorized to grant any person charged
with a civil infraction of any non-moving traffic and/or parking violation
the option of either paying said Bureau the fines and penalties hereinafter
provided for such violations, or of answering to a complaint before
the magistrate or any court having competent jurisdiction. It shall
not be mandatory for the Bureau to grant any person receiving a citation
the optional choice provided above.
If any person shall receive a citation for a non-moving traffic
and/or parking violation and neglects and/or refuses to pay the fine
or penalty herein provided at the said Bureau, then it shall be the
duty of the person in charge of such Bureau, or some other officer
having knowledge of the facts to forthwith make complaint before any
court having competent jurisdiction, and to bring the violator before
the court to answer the said complaint.
The schedule of fines for a non-moving traffic and/or parking violation within the City shall be as determined from time to time by resolution of the City Council. The Council may also set from time to time the length of time a violation shall be considered a civil infraction, and at which point any unresolved violation may become a criminal misdemeanor subject to the provisions of Section 1-7 of this Code.
It shall be the duty of the Parking Violations Bureau to keep
a full and complete and accurate account of all violations settled
before it, and of all monies received by it and it shall deposit all
such monies with the City Treasurer within a timely fashion, with
an exact copy or carbon copy of the receipt given to the violator
for any sum paid, and in all cases it shall be the duty of the officer
receiving any sums to give the violator a receipt.
