In the event of a violation of the parking regulations set forth in this chapter, the police officer or parking enforcement officer charged with the duty of enforcing such parking regulations shall take the number of any parking meter involved in the violation in question, the state license number of the vehicle, the length of time during which the vehicle is parked in violation of this chapter and any other information or data pertinent to the violation in question and report the same to the police department and make proper complaint regarding such violation.
(Code 1964 § 15-177; Code 1985 § 16-144; Ord. 6-9-88)
Each officer reporting a violation as provided in SCC § 10.25.370 shall attach to the vehicle in question a notice to the owner thereof to the effect that such vehicle has been parked in violation of a provision of this chapter and instructing such owner when and where to report with reference to such violation.
(Code 1964 § 15-178; Code 1985 § 16-145)
In the event the violation indicated in the notice required by SCC § 10.25.380 involves any of the following:
(1) 
Parking within 20 feet of the curb line of an intersecting street;
(2) 
Stopping a vehicle on a crosswalk;
(3) 
Where parallel parking is permitted, parking so that any part of the vehicle extends beyond the interior of the delineated parking space or, in the case where parking spaces are not delineated, where the curbside wheel or wheels are more than 12 inches from the curb;
(4) 
Parking on an angle;
(5) 
Parking within 15 feet of a fire hydrant;
(6) 
Parking or stopping with the left side to the curb, except on one-way streets;
(7) 
Parking in a prohibited zone;
(8) 
Parking in a loading zone;
(9) 
Parking in a manner to block the entrance to a driveway;
(10) 
Parking in a prohibited alley or blocking an alley;
(11) 
Double parking;
(12) 
Parking in a bus zone;
(13) 
Where angle or 90-degree parking is permitted, parking so that any part of the vehicle extends beyond the interior of the delineated parking space or, in the case where parking spaces are not delineated, where the nearest wheel or wheels are more than 12 inches from the curb;
(14) 
Parking on a sidewalk;
(15) 
Parking in violation of SCC § 10.25.070;
(16) 
Parking a noncommercial vehicle in a customer pickup zone in excess of the 15-minute time limit;
(17) 
Parking in violation of SCC § 10.25.060;
(18) 
Parking in violation of SCC § 10.25.120;
the owner or operator of the vehicle involved may, within 24 hours of the time when such notice was attached to the vehicle, pay, as a penalty for said violation, the sum set forth on the notice for the particular violation indicated. If said payment is not made within the time set forth therein, a "Law-Enforcement Notice" shall be sent to the violator followed in due course by a summons to court, all as set forth in SCC § 10.25.410.
*State law reference Provision to be made for uncontested payment of parking citations, Code of Virginia, §§ 46.2-1225 – 46.2-1229. Provision for use of notice and summons, Code of Virginia, §§ 19.2-76.2; 19.2-76.3; 46.2-941.
(Code 1964 § 15-180; Code 1985 § 16-146; Ord. 11-23-82; Ord. 6-9-88; Ord. 12-17-92; Ord. 10-26-95; Ord. 1-13-00; Ord. 9-14-00)
(1) 
In the event of a parking violation hereunder involving overtime parking, either parking beyond the time limit of a metered space or beyond the time limits provided in SCC § 10.25.190(2), a courtesy ticket may be issued to the vehicle owner/operator allowing the owner/operator to deposit a sum, in an amount as specified in a schedule as promulgated from time to time by the city manager, in the receptacles placed in the vicinity for such purpose, in lieu of any other penalty provided for such violation.
(2) 
Notwithstanding the foregoing, however, in the event a vehicle is overparked as set forth above and remains in violation for 30 minutes measured from the time a courtesy ticket is issued with respect thereto, a second ticket may be issued for such violation affixing a penalty of a fine in an amount as specified in a schedule as promulgated from time to time by the city manager for such violation if paid by the owner/operator within 10 days by deposit in the receptacles placed for such purpose, or by otherwise paying the same to the treasurer for the city of Staunton.
(3) 
Upon failure of such owner or operator to make such payment within such 10-day period, an additional penalty of a fine in an amount as specified in a schedule as promulgated from time to time by the city manager shall be considered due and payable in addition to the original penalty thus creating an administrative penalty to compensate the said city for its efforts to notify the owner or operator of such vehicle that a summons to appear in the appropriate district court for the city shall be issued for the prosecution of the violation indicated through the aforementioned notice unless said violation and penalty is paid to and received by the treasurer for the city of Staunton in 10 days.
(4) 
Upon failure of such owner or operator to make such payment within such 10-day period, or upon the commission by him of a third or succeeding violation in any calendar month, such owner or operator may be summoned to the appropriate district court for the city and, upon conviction, shall be punished by a fine in an amount as specified in a schedule as promulgated from time to time by the city manager.
(Code 1964 § 15-179; Code 1985 § 16-147; Ord. 4-25-85; Ord. 4-13-89; Ord. 4-8-93; Ord. 5-8-03; Amended during the 2003 reformat; Ord. 2016-11)
Notwithstanding any other provision of this chapter, before any summons shall be issued for the prosecution of a violation of any provision of this code or other city regulation or ordinance regulating parking, the violator shall have been first notified, by mail directed to his last known address or to the address shown for such violator on the records of the State Department of Motor Vehicles, that he may pay the fine provided by law for such violation, within 10 days of receipt of such notice, and the authorized person issuing such summons shall be notified that the violator has failed to pay such fine within such time. The notice to the violator required by the provisions of this section shall be contained in an envelope bearing the words "Law-Enforcement Notice" stamped or printed on the face thereof in 14 point or larger type. (Amended during the 2003 reformat; Ord. 1-13-00; Code 1985, § 16-148; Ord. 4-8-93; Code 1964, § 15-15-1).
State law reference – Similar provisions, Code of Virginia, § 46.2-941.
In any prosecution charging the violation of any ordinance, rule, regulation, restriction or prohibition governing the parking of a vehicle in the city, proof that the particular vehicle described in the summons was parked in violation of such ordinance, rule, regulation, restriction or prohibition, together with proof that the defendant named in the summons was, at the time of such parking, the registered owner of such vehicle, shall constitute in evidence a prima facie presumption that the registered owner of such vehicle was the person who parked such vehicle at the place where, and at the time during which, such violation occurred.
State law reference – Similar provisions, Code of Virginia, § 46.2-1220.
(Code 1964 § 15-174; Code 1985 § 16-149)
(1) 
Whenever any motor vehicle, against which there are three or more outstanding unpaid or otherwise unsettled parking violation notices, is found parked on the public streets or public grounds in the city, such vehicle may, by towing or otherwise, be removed or conveyed to a place in the city designated by the chief of police for the temporary storage of such vehicle, or such vehicle may be immobilized in such manner as to prevent its removal or operation except by authorized officers of the police department. Such removal, conveyance or immobilization shall be by, or under the direction of, an officer of the police department.
(2) 
It shall be the duty of the officer of the police department removing or immobilizing a motor vehicle under this section, or under whose direction such vehicle is removed or immobilized, to inform, as soon as practicable, the owner of the removed or immobilized vehicle of the nature and circumstances of the prior unsettled parking violation notices, for which or on account of which such vehicle was removed or immobilized. In any case involving immobilization of a vehicle pursuant to this section, there shall be placed on such vehicle, in a conspicuous manner, a notice warning that such vehicle has been immobilized and that any attempt to move such vehicle might result in damage thereto.
(3) 
The owner of a vehicle immobilized pursuant to this section, or other duly authorized person, shall be allowed not less than 24 hours from the time of immobilization to repossess or secure the release of the vehicle. Failure to repossess or secure the release of the vehicle within this time period may result in the removal of such vehicle to a storage area for safekeeping under the direction of an officer of the police department.
(4) 
The owner of a vehicle removed or immobilized pursuant to this section, or other duly authorized person, shall be permitted to repossess or to secure the release of the vehicle by payment of the outstanding parking violation notices for which the vehicle was removed or immobilized and by payment of all reasonable costs incidental to the immobilization, removal and storage of the vehicle and the efforts to locate the owner of the vehicle. Should such owner fail or refuse to pay such fines and costs, or should the identity or whereabouts of such owner be unknown and unascertainable, such vehicle may be sold pursuant to the provisions of Chapter 10.35 SCC.
State law reference – Authority for above section, Code of Virginia, § 46.2-1216.
(Code 1985 § 16-150)