11-10620 Overtime Parking(Published in the Salina Journal on October, 2011.)
ORDINANCE NUM13EIZ 11-10620
AN ORDINANCE AMENDING CHAPTER 38, ARTICLE III, DIVISION 1, SECTION
38-45 OF THE SALINA CODE PERTAINING TO OVERTIME PARKING AND REPEALING
EXISTING SECTION 38-45.
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13E IT ORDAINED by the Governing Body of the city of Salina, Kansas:
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Section 1. That Section 38-45 of Chapter 38, Article III, Division I of the Salina Code is hereby
' amended as follows:
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"Sec. 38-45. Overtime parking prohibited.
(a) It shall be unlawful for any person to cause, allow or permit any vehicle registered in the
name of or operated by such person to be parked overtime or beyond the period of legal
parking time established for any city street or parking lot.
(b) Whenever any motor vehicle without driver is found in violation of this section, the officer
finding the vehicle shall take its registration number and may take any other information
displayed on the vehicle which may identify its owner or operator, and shall conspicuously
affix to the vehicle a traffic citation.
(c) Every person convicted of a violation of this ordinance shall be punished by a fine of five
dollars ($5.00) if such line is paid within seven (7) days of the time when the citation was
attached to the vehicle parked in violation. If the penalty is not paid within seven (7) days of
the time the citation was attached to the vehicle parked in violation, the penalty for the
violation shall increase to ten dollars ($10.00). If the penalty is not paid within thirty (30)
days of the time the citation was attached to the vehicle parked in violation, the penalty for
the violation shall increase to twenty-five dollars ($25.00).
(d) The owner or operator of a vehicle cited may make payment to the clerk of the municipal
' court by depositing the applicable fine and citation in a courtesy fine collection box, by
mailing the applicable tine and citation to the clerk of the municipal court, or by paying the
applicable fine and citation directly to the clerk of the municipal court.
(e) The owner or operator of a vehicle cited may contest a citation by contacting the clerk of the
municipal court and requesting a trial date. Once a request for a trial date has been made to
the clerk, the enforcement provisions shall be stayed, pending a decision by the municipal
court judge.
(f) If the owner or operator of a vehicle cited does not pay or request a hearing within a period
of seven (7) days of the time the citation was issued, the clerk of the municipal court shall
send to the owner of the motor vehicle to which the citation was attached, a letter informing
the owner of the violation and warning that in the event such letter is disregarded, the
vehicle parked in violation may be subject to towing pursuant to Sec. 38-50(7).
(g) If any vehicle accumulates three (3) or more parking citations under this Section and the
fines are more than thirty (30) days past due, said vehicle shall be subject to the towing
provisions of Sec. 38-50(7).
Section 2. That the existing Section 38-45 is hereby repealed.
Section 3. That this ordinance shall be in full force and effect from and after its adoption and
' publication,once in the official city newspaper.
Introduced: October 10, 2011
Passed: Octobe 17, 2011
Samantha P. Ange , Mayor
[SEAL]
ATTEST:
Lieu Ann Elsey, CMC, ' y Clerk