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Part 37
37.000 PARKING VIOLATION BUREAU* Ord. No. 22 Adopted: November 4, 1969
---------- *Cross reference(s)--Uniform Traffic Code adoption, Pt. 30; parking of commercial vehicles or trailers in residential districts, Pt. 38; parking of motor vehicles on downtown streets overnight, Pt. 39; parking of vehicle with trailer attached, Pt. 40. ----------
An ordinance establishing a parking violation bureau for the
City of Reading.
THE CITY OF READING ORDAINS:
37.001 Establishment, supervision and control.
Sec. 1. Pursuant to Section 8395 of the Revised Judicature
Act, State of Michigan, as added by Public Act 154 of 1968, a
parking violations bureau, for the purpose of handling alleged
parking violations within the City, is hereby established. The
parking violations bureau shall be under the supervision and
control of the City Clerk.
37.002 Location, employees, rules and regulations.
Sec. 2. The Mayor shall, subject to the approval of the City
Council, establish a convenient location for the parking
violations bureau, appoint qualified City employees to administer
the bureau and adopt rules and regulations for the operation
thereof.
37.003 Scheduled, unscheduled violations.
Sec. 3. No violation not scheduled in Section 6 of this
ordinance shall be disposed of by the parking violations bureau.
The fact that a particular violation is scheduled shall not
entitle the alleged violator to disposition of the violation at
the bureau and in any case the person in charge of such bureau
may refuse to dispose of such violation in which case any person
having knowledge of the facts may make a sworn complaint before
any court having jurisdiction of the offense as provided by law.
37.004 Rights of violators.
Sec. 4. No violation may be settled at the parking
violations bureau except at the specific request of the alleged
violator. No penalty for any violation shall be accepted from any
person who denies having committed the offense and in no case
shall the person who is in charge of the bureau determine, or
attempt to determine, the truth or falsity of any fact or matter
relating to such alleged violation. No person shall be required
to dispose of a parking violation at the parking violations
bureau and all persons shall be entitled to have any such
violation processed before a court having jurisdiction thereof if
they so desire. The unwillingness of any person to dispose of any
violation at the parking violations bureau shall not prejudice
him or in anyway diminish the rights, privileges and protection
accorded to him by law.
37.005 Traffic ticket or notice of violation.
Sec. 5. The issuance of a traffic ticket or notice of
violation by a police officer of the City shall be deemed an
allegation of a parking violation. Such traffic ticket or notice
of violation shall indicate the length of time in which the
person to whom the same was issued must respond before the
parking violations bureau. It shall also indicate the address of
the bureau, the hours during which the bureau is open, the amount
of the penalty scheduled for the offense for which the ticket was
issued and advise that a warrant for the arrest of the person to
whom the ticket was issued will be sought if such a person fails
to respond within the time limited.
37.006 Schedule of offenses and fines.
Sec. 6. See attached Appendix A for schedule of offenses and
fines.
37.007 Repeal.
Sec. 7. All ordinances or parts of ordinances in conflict
with this ordinance are, to the extent of such conflict, hereby
repealed.
37.008 Effective date.
Sec. 8. This ordinance shall become effective upon
publication and on and after the expiration of the time
prescribed by the City Charter.
APPENDIX A
37.020 SCHEDULE OF OFFENSES AND FINES
*Penalties assigned are derived from representative
ordinances and may be increased or decreased in the discretion of
the Council.
APPENDIX B
37.030 ADDITIONAL OFFENSES FREQUENTLY PRESCRIBED BY ORDINANCE AND
PENALTY VARIATIONS
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