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§ 15-1001
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Title 15 : Motor Vehicles, Traffic and Parking
Chapter 6 : Procedure on Arrest

15-609 : Presumption in reference to illegal parking.

  1. In any prosecution charging a violation of any state law or provision of this chapter, governing the standing or parking of a vehicle, proof that the particular vehicle described in the complaint was parked in violation of the law or provision of this chapter, together with proof that the defendant named in the complaint was at the time of the parking the registered owner of the vehicle, shall constitute in evidence a prima facie presumption that the registered owner of the vehicle was the person who parked or placed the vehicle at the point where, and for the time during which, the violation occurred.
  2. The presumption prescribed in subsection (1) shall apply only when the procedure established in § 15-507 is followed. (1973 Code, § 11-80)