General Ordinances - City of New Buffalo

CITY OF NEW BUFFALO
CODE OF ORDINANCES
Section 10-7. Creation.
ARTICLE III. PARKING VIOLATIONS BUREAU
It is hereby created for the City a Parking Violations Bureau, pursuant to Act No. 154 of the Public Acts of 1968, as
amended.
Section 10-8. Powers, duties, and membership.
The Parking Violations Bureau shall be in the charge of the Chief of Police. The Bureau shall enforce, as
hereinafter provided, all non-moving traffic and/or parking violations as civil infractions within the City and other
regulations allowed by law. Each Patrol Officer and Reserve Officer of the Police Department shall be members of
the Parking Violations Bureau to act in the absence of the Chief of Police, and so shall any other employees of the
City as designated in writing by the City Manager. Such members shall be known as Parking Enforcement Officials
of the Parking Violations Bureau. The City Clerk and City Treasurer, along with their duly appointed designees,
shall be members of the Parking Violations Bureau to act as the Treasurer and/or Clerk of said Bureau in the
absence of the Chief of Police or any other Parking Enforcement Official for the collection of fines and penalties.
Section 10-9. Resolution of violations.
Said Bureau is hereby authorized to grant any person charged with a civil infraction of any non-moving traffic
and/or parking violation the option of either paying said Bureau the fines and penalties hereinafter provided for such
violations, or of answering to a complaint before the magistrate or any court having competent jurisdiction. It shall
not be mandatory for the Bureau to grant any person receiving a citation the optional choice provided above.
Section 10-10. Delinquent violations.
If any person shall receive a citation for a non-moving traffic and/or parking violation and neglects and/or refuses to
pay the fine or penalty herein provided at the said Bureau, then it shall be the duty of the person in charge of such
Bureau, or some other officer having knowledge of the facts to forthwith make complaint before any court having
competent jurisdiction, and to bring the violator before the court to answer the said complaint.
Section 10-11. Fines and penalties.
The schedule of fines for a non-moving traffic and/or parking violation within the City shall be as determined from
time to time by resolution of the City Council. The Council may also set from time to time the length of time a
violation shall be considered a civil infraction, and at which point any unresolved violation may become a criminal
misdemeanor subject to the provisions of Section 1-7 of this Code.
Section 10-12. Receipt and accounting of fines and penalties.
It shall be the duty of the Parking Violations Bureau to keep a full and complete and accurate account of all
violations settled before it, and of all monies received by it and it shall deposit all such monies with the City
Treasurer within a timely fashion, with an exact copy or carbon copy of the receipt given to the violator for any sum
paid, and in all cases it shall be the duty of the officer receiving any sums to give the violator a receipt.
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