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HomeMy WebLinkAboutOrdinance No. 5488STATE OF IOWA, } Black Hawk County, SS 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. B BRENDA L HUNT. O MI ,v N NO. 8415,0 �.�' xr,,RES