§ 14-5. Violations bureau.

(a)

The city manager shall establish a violations bureau under the supervision of the municipal court clerk to assist the judge with clerical work relating to violations, to be operated during the hours that the manager determines.

(b)

The municipal judge shall establish a schedule setting forth the costs to be paid for each parking violation. Fines for parking violations shall be assessed in the following amounts:

Violations of parking time limits:

First offense ..... Warning

Second offense ..... $ 25.00

Third offense .....  50.00

Fourth and subsequent offense ..... 100.00

Violation of handicapped parking restrictions:

Each offense ..... 100.00

All other violations:

Each offense ..... 50.00

A parking time limit violation that results in a written warning instead of a summons, penalty assessment notice, or parking citation shall constitute an offense for purposes of this fine schedule.

(c)

Any person eligible to pay a fine under the provisions of subsection (b) of this section to the violations bureau may pay the fine and costs before the arraignment date specified in the summons at the violations bureau upon entering a written plea of guilty. The receipt of a fine by the violations bureau without a written plea of guilty shall be deemed to be an admission of guilt authorizing the municipal judge to enter a judgment of guilty. The bureau, upon accepting the prescribed fine and costs, shall issue a receipt to the person acknowledging payment thereof. Such payment discharges the obligation of the defendant to appear before the municipal court for arraignment.

(d)

The violations bureau shall send records of pleas of guilty on which judgment is entered to the state division of motor vehicles and follow such other procedures as prescribed by this Code, other ordinances of the city, the Colorado Municipal Court Rules, or state law.

(Ord. No. 2315, § 1, 4-20-10)