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ORDINANCE NO. 5488 AN ORDINANCE
AMENDING THE CITY OF WATERLOO
CODE OF ORDINANCES BY AMEND-
ING THE CITY OF WATERLOO CODE
OF ORDINANCES BY AMENDING TITLE
5, POLICE REGULATIONS, BY -ADDING
A NEW CHAPTER 6, CHRONIC NUI-
SANCE VEHICLES.
BE IT ORDAINED: BY THE CITY
COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF WATER-
LOO, IOWA AS FOLLOWS: BE IT
ORDAINED BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF
THE CITY OF WATERLOO, IOWA AS
FOLLOWS: That Title 5 Police Regula-
tions be amended by adding a new
Chapter 6 Nuisance Vehicles.
5-6-1: DEFINITIONS
A. AUTOMATED TRAFFIC CITATION:
Shall mean a notice of fine generated in
connection with section 6-1-4.
B. CHRONIC NUISANCE VEHICLE: Any
vehicle that has generated three (3) or
more Automated Traffic Citations and/or
Officer Traffic Citations in any period less
than 12 months for traffic violations.
C. OFFICER TRAFFIC CITATION: Shall
mean a notice . of fine generated in
connection with section 6-1-5.
D. VEHICLE OWNER: $hall mean the
person or entity identified by the Iowa
Department of Transportation, or regis-
tered with any other state vehicle
registration office, as the registered owner
of a vehicle.
5-6-2: PURPOSE
The purpose of this ordinance is to
establish a systematic procedure for
effectively abating the operation of
vehicles that negatively impact the safety
upon the roadways in the City of
Wstarinn Tha manner_ in which these..
vehicles are being driven tends to place
an undue and inappropriate burden upon
the taxpayers in the City of Waterloo by
the frequent and chronic use of law
enforcement and fire rescue services due
to the response to accidents caused by
this driving behavior.
5-6-3: CHRONIC NUISANCE VEHICLES
PROHIBITED
No vehicle owner shall use or allow any
vehicle to be used as a chronic nuisance
vehicle.
5-6-4: ENFORCEMENT
Any vehicle that has generated three (3)
or more Automated Traffic Citations and
/or Officer Traffic Citations in any period
less than 12 months for traffic violations is
deemed a chronic nuisance vehicle and
as placed an undue and inappropriate
urden on the taxpayers of•the City of
Waterloo. The vehicle owner shall be
fable for a fine as imposed by this
ordinance.
5-6-5: CIVIL VIOLATIONS AND PENAL-
TIES
A. Any person who violates or resists the
enforcement of any of the provisions of
this chapter shall be guilty of a municipal
infraction punishable by a civil penalty of
one hundred dollars (5100.00) for the
initial offense and two hundred dollars
($200.00) for each repeat offense.
B. If any one of the three (3) or more
violations for which a person received a
citation is foi speeds in excess of 20
miles -per -hour over the posted speed
limit, the person shall be guilty of a
municipal infraction punishable by a civil
penalty of three hundred dollars($300.00).
INTRODUCED: February 25, 2019
PASSED 1st CONSIDERATION: Febru-
ary 25, 2019 PASSED 2nd CONSIDERA-
TION: March 4, 2019 PASSED 3rd
CONSIDERATION: March 11, 2019
PASSED AND ADOPTED by this Council
this 11th day of March 2019.
Quentin Hart, Mayor
ATTEST: Kelley Felchle, City Clerk
I do solemnly swear that the annexed copy of legal
City of Waterloo
Ordinance 5488
Notice was published in the Waterloo -Cedar Falls
Courier, a daily newspaper printed in Waterloo, Black
Hawk County, Iowa, once commencing on the 19th
day of March, 2019 in the name of said newspaper,
and that the annexed rate of advertised is the regular
legal rate of said newspaper, and that the following is
a correct bill for publishing said notice.
Printer's Bill $32.84
L.-.. IC ..
Signed
Subscribed and sworn to before me thi -�
Day of "(IN A.D., 20\ 1
Received of
Notary Public
the sum of
Dollars.
In full for publication of the above notice.
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