A. Citation on Illegally Parked Vehicle. Whenever a vehicle without an operator is found parked in violation of a restriction imposed by this title or state law, the officer finding the vehicle shall take its license number and any other information displayed on the vehicle which may identify its owner, and shall conspicuously affix to the vehicle a traffic citation instructing the operator to answer to the charge against him or her or pay the penalty within seven days during the hours and at a place specified in the citation.

B. Failure to Comply with Traffic Citation Attached to Parked Vehicle. If the operator does not respond to a traffic citation affixed to a vehicle within a period of seven days, the City Recorder or municipal court clerk may send to the owner of the vehicle to which the traffic citation was affixed a letter informing the owner of the violation and warning him or her that in the event that the letter is disregarded for a period of ten days the fine will be doubled and the vehicle cited will be subject to impoundment and may be sold if not redeemed.

C. Owner Responsibility. The owner of a vehicle placed in violation of a parking restriction shall be responsible for the offense, except when the use of the vehicle was secured by the operator without the owner's consent.

D. Registered Owner Presumption. In a prosecution of a vehicle owner charging a violation of a restriction on parking, proof that the vehicle at the time of the violation was registered to the defendant shall constitute a presumption that the defendant was then the owner thereof. (Ord. 2-1988 § 15, 1988.)