[Amended 2-5-2008; 6-21-2022 by Order No.
22-249-01]
A. Unless another penalty is expressly provided by state law, every person found guilty of a violation of any provision of this chapter shall be punished by a fine of not more than $100 and not less than $50 for each offense; however, for parking violations a separate fine schedule is included below. Parking tickets must be paid in full within 30 days of the violation date. After 30 days, the parking ticket fine, as noted below, will double. A vehicle with multiple unpaid parking tickets, as noted in §
245-106 of this code, may be subject to impoundment.
(2) Wrong side of street: $10.
(3) Too close to hydrant: $25.
(5) All-night parking.
(a)
First to fourth ticket: $15 each.
(b)
Fifth ticket and any subsequent ticket within
a year of first ticket: $100 each.
(8) Parking in crosswalk: $15.
(11)
Parking in designated handicapped spaces: $50.
(14)
Unreasonable deposit of snow/ice: $50.
(16)
Vehicular trespassing: $15.
B. All fines and penalties collected under this chapter
shall be paid into the City treasury, and the City Council is authorized
to employ all such procedures authorized by law which it deems prudent
to collect the same.
It shall be unlawful and in violation of this
chapter for any person to cause, allow, or suffer any vehicle registered
in the name of or operated by such person to do any act forbidden
or fail to perform any act required in this chapter, provided that
the fact that a vehicle is unlawfully parked shall be prima facie
evidence of the unlawful parking of such vehicle by the person in
whose name such vehicle is registered. Further, any vehicle parked
in violation of this chapter (whether because of length of time, place,
or the manner in which said vehicle is parked) is declared to be an
obstruction in such street or public way and a menace to the safe
and proper regulation of traffic.
No person shall willfully fail or refuse to
comply with any lawful order or direction of a police officer or Fire
Department official.
Except when authorized or directed under state
law to immediately take a person before a magistrate or other court
official for the violation of any traffic laws, a police officer who
halts a person for such violation, other than for the purpose of giving
him a warning or warning notice, and does not take such person into
custody under arrest shall take such person's name and address, the
operator's license number, the registered number of the motor vehicle
involved, and such other pertinent information as may be necessary.
The officer shall then issue to such person in writing on the original
form provided by the Town a traffic citation containing a notice to
answer to the charge against him in the District Court as soon as
practicable after such alleged violation. The alleged violation shall
be specified in the citation.
It shall be unlawful for any person to cancel
or solicit the cancellation of any traffic citation in any manner
other than as provided by this article.
No person shall remove from any vehicle a traffic
law violation ticket or notice of citation placed on or in such vehicle
by a police officer of the Town, except for the purpose of answering
such notice or citation as required therein.
Whenever any motor vehicle without a driver
is found parked or stopped in violation of any of the restrictions
imposed by ordinances of the Town or by state law, the officer finding
such vehicle shall take its registration number and may take any other
information displayed on the vehicle which may identify its user and
shall conspicuously affix to such vehicle a traffic citation on a
form provided by the Town.