[Adopted 4-11-2002]
This article is enacted pursuant to §§ 46.2-1221
and 46.2-1225 of Title 46.2, Chapter 12, of the Code of Virginia,
(1950), as amended, for the purposes of regulating the parking on
County-owned or -leased property and to provide for enforcement of
these provisions. The provisions of this article shall not apply to
police, fire or public health vehicles or where a vehicle, because
of a wreck or other emergency, is parked or left temporarily on the
property of another.
It shall be unlawful for a vehicle to be parked
in a parking space reserved as a fire lane in front of any County
building, including the County schools.
Northumberland County will require:
A.
That uncontested payment of parking citation penalties
be collected and accounted for by a local administrative official
or officials who shall be compensated by the locality;
B.
That contest by any person of any parking citation
shall be certified on an appropriate form, to the appropriate district
court, by such official or officials; and
C.
That the local administrative official or officials
shall cause complaints, summons, or warrants to be issued for delinquent
parking citations.
Unless otherwise stated, any person violating
any provision of this article shall be subject to a fine of not less
than $100 and not more than $500.
