1794 ORDINANCE NO. 1794
AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY OF SANFORD, FLORIDA,
AMENDING CHAPTER 17 - MOTOR VEHICLES AND
TRAFFIC - OF THE SANFORD CITY CODE BY
AMENDING SUBSECTION 17-30(A) THROUGH (C) TO
AUTHORIZE THE REMOVING, IMPOUNDING AND
IMMOBILIZATION OF VEHICLES BEARING OUT-
STANDING CITATIONS, PROVIDING FOR SEVERA-
BILITY, CONFLICTS AND EFFECTIVE DATE.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE PEOPLE OF THE CITY OF SANFORD,
FLORIDA, AS FOLLOWS:
SECTION 1: Chapter 17 - Motor Vehicles and Traffic of
the Sanford City Code be and is hereby amended to add Subsection
17-30 (A) through (C) as follows:
SUBSECTION A: Any motor vehicle found parked at any
time upon any street or in any off-street parking facility in the
City of Sanford against which there are five (5) or more
outstanding or otherwise unsettled parking violation notices for
which no hearing has been requested within the requisite time
period, and for which a Notice of Summons has been mailed, may,
by or under the direction of a parking enforcement specialist or
police officer, be immobilized in such a manner as to prevent its
operation, except that no such vehicle shall be immobilized by
any means other than by the use of a device or other mechanism
which will cause no damage to such vehicle unless it is moved
while such device or mechanism is in place.
SUBSECTION B: It shall be the duty of the parking
enforcement specialist or police officer immobilizing such motor
vehicle, or under whose direction such vehicle is immobilized, to
post on such vehicle, in a conspicuous place, notice sufficient
to inform the owner or operator of the vehicle that:
(1) such vehicle has been immobilized pursuant to and
by the authority of Section 17-30 of the Sanford City Code; and
(2) the owner of such immobilized vehicle, or other
duly authorized person, shall be permitted to repossess or to
secure the release of the vehicle upon compliance with either of
the following alternative procedures:
(a) payment to the Sanford Police Department or
Parking Fines Unit of the City of Sanford of a twenty-five dollar
($25.00) service charge for removal of the immobilization device,
together with payment of any outstanding or otherwise unsettled
parking violation notices for which no hearing has been requested
in the requisite time period; or
(b) posting with the Traffice Violations Bureau
of the Clerk of the Court of Seminole County of a cash or surety
bond or other adequate security equal to the amount of twenty-
five dollars ($25.00) plus court costs, together with payment of
any outstanding or otherwise unsettled parking violation notices
for which no hearing has been requested in the requisite time
period. If, during the hearing on the outstanding parking
violation notices which necessitated the immobilization of the
vehicle, the City prevails on any or all of the outstanding
violations, the twenty-five dollar ($25.00) cash or surety bond
shall be forfeited to the City of Sanford.
SUBSECTION C: Any vehicle immobilized pursuant to
Section 17-30 shall be subject to impoundment as authorized by
the Sanford City Code.
SECTION 2: If any section or portion of a section of
this ordinance proves to be invalid, unlawful or unconstitu-
tional, it shall not be held to impair the validity, force or
effect of any other section or part of this ordinance.
SECTION 3: That all ordinances or parts of ordinances
in conflict herewith be and the same are hereby revoked.
SECTION 4: That this ordinance shall become effective
immediately upon its passage and adoption.
PASSED AND ADOPTED this 27th day of January ,
A.D. 1986.
MAyOR~~ ~'. ~
ATTEST:
CERTIFICATE
I, H. N. Tamm, Jr., City Clerk of the City of San-
ford, Florida, do hereby certify that a true and correct copy
of the foregoing Ordinance No. 1794, PASSED and ADOPTED by
the City Commission of the City of Sanford, Florida, on the
27th day of January, 1986, was POSTED at the front door of
the City Hall in the City of Sanford, Florida, on the 28th
day of January, 1986.
City of Sanford, Florida