10.43.030 – Discharging claim

Any person accused of a violation of any portion of Section 10.43.020 may settle and compromise the claim against him or her for such illegal parking by paying to the City the sum of fifty ($50.00) dollars. If the claim is not settled within fourteen (14) days after the ticketing, such person shall have an additional fourteen (14) days to settle such claim, but at the sum of One Hundred ($100.00) dollars. If the claim is not settled within the 28-day period, the Police Department shall initiate the appropriate legal action against the alleged violator. The payment may be made at the Municipal Center of the City, located at 2 East Main Street, St. Charles, Illinois, 60174. Such payments received shall be promptly turned over and credited to the appropriate fund. This section shall not apply to persons parking a vehicle so as to obstruct the entrance or exit of any place where Police or Fire Department apparatus or other emergency equipment is kept or housed, or so as to block an emergency entrance to a hospital, nor shall this section apply to any person charged with parking a vehicle so as to entirely obstruct traffic on any street or alley, or parking in such a way as to reduce traffic on an arterial street to one-way traffic only; nor to any person charged with double parking or parking in a tow-away zone; nor shall this section apply to any person who refuses at the request of any member of the Police Department to move a vehicle illegally parked.