§ 54-789. Failure to comply with notice attached to parked vehicle.
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If a violator of the restrictions on stopping, standing or parking imposed under this
chapter or by rules and regulations of the manager of aviation does not respond to
a notice or summons affixed to such motor vehicle within the 20-day period set in
such notice by appearance at the parking magistrate's office and arranging for payment
or other disposition of the charge or by making payment by means of the United States
mails, by telephone or by other means authorized by the city, the city or its contractor
shall send another notice by mail to the owner of the vehicle to which the original
notice was affixed informing the owner of the violation. If a vehicle's owner cannot
be determined due to a lack of registry with the Department of Motor Vehicles, a pre-seizure
notice informing the driver, owner or person in charge of the vehicle of the violation
may occur by affixing such notice to the driver's side window. If the mailed or pre-seizure
notice is disregarded for the period set in such notice, and the violator or owner
has not paid applicable fines and penalties or has not appeared at the parking magistrate's
office and arranged for other disposition of the charge, the court may enter a judgment
of liability by default against the owner pursuant to subsection 14-32(d), or the vehicle upon which the pre-seizure notice was affixed may be immobilized
in accordance with subsection 54-811(17), or both. The court may not enter default judgment before one hundred twenty
(120) days have elapsed since the notice or summons was affixed to the motor vehicle
