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Title 15 : Motor Vehicles, Traffic and Parking
Chapter 6 : Procedure on Arrest

15-608 : Citations on unlawfully parked vehicle.

  1. Whenever any motor vehicle without a driver is found parked or stopped in violation of any of the restrictions imposed by this chapter or by state law, the officer finding the vehicle shall take its registration number and may take any other information displayed on the vehicle which may identify its user and shall conspicuously affix to the vehicle a traffic citation, on a form provided by the recorder, for the driver to answer to the charge against him within five (5) days, during the hours and at a place specified in the citation.
  2. If a violator of the restrictions on stopping, standing or parking under the traffic laws of this state or this chapter does not appear in response to a traffic citation affixed to such motor vehicle pursuant to subsection (1) within a period of five (5) days, the recorder shall send to the owner of the motor vehicle to which the traffic citation was affixed a letter informing him of the violation and warning him that in the event such letter is disregarded for a period of five (5) days a warrant of arrest will be issued. (1973 Code, § 11-79)