Amending Section 25-66 Chapter 29 Providing a Penalty for the Violation of said Ordinance

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INDIANA: ORDINANCE NO. 5080 -69 AN ORDINANCE AMENDING SECTION 25 -66 OF SECTION 65 OF CHAPTER 29 OF THE CODE OF 1949, AS AMENDED, PROVIDING A PENALTY FOR THE VIOLATION OF SAID ORDINANCE. AS AMENDED. BE IT ORDAINED BY THE CGEON COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF SOUTH BEND, SECTION I. That Section 25 -66 of Section 65 of Chapter 29 of the Code of 1949, as amended, is hereby further amended to read as follows: It shall be the duty of the police department to enforce the pro- visions of this division. Whenever a member of the police department of the city or other person charged with the enforcement of this division *shall find is being or has been violated by r the owner or operator of any vehicle, such officer or person shall notify such owner or operator of such vehicle, in writing, on a form to be provided by the city, of such violation. Such notice shall be made in duplicate and shall be serially numbered and show the specific violation charged, the re- gistration or state license number of the vehicle involved, the violator's name, address and operator's license number, if possible to obtain the same, and any other information which he may then and there discover. One copy of such notice shall be presented to the violator or owner or operator of such vehicle, and in case such violator, operator or owner shall not be in pos- session of, present or in charge of such vehicle, the posting of such notice or the attachment thereof to a conspicuous place on such vehicle shall be deemed a sufficient notice of such violation. The notice shall require the person who has received the notice to appear within forty -eight hours, at the hour specified in the notice at the traffic violations bureau. It shall be the duty of the officer or person serving such notice to file the duplicate copy thereof in the office of the police department of the city. The owner or operator of such vehicle who has been so notified of a violation of this division, as herein provided, may, within forty -eight hours after having been so notified, answer at the office of the traffic violations bureau of the city, to the charge of such violation of this division as set forth in such notice, and pay a prescribed fee oft dollars in settlement of the offense or charge; an acceptance of and payment of the fee and the authority by the clerk shall be deemed complete satisfaction for the violation and the violator shall be given a receipt which so states. Whenever any person has been issued a notice as provided in this section for the violations as in this section set forth, and shall fail or re- fuse to appear within the forty -eight hours after such service of such notice as herein provided at the traffic violations bureau or having appeared shall fail or refuse to pay the clerk the fee in settlement of the charge and vio- lation, then the traffic violations bureau shall send to the owner of the motor vehicle to which the notice was affixed a letter informing him of the violation and warning him that he will be held responsible for the appearance of the offender and that in the event such letter is disregarded for a period