§ 154-685 — Same—Functions, powers and duties

Sec. 154-685. - Same—Functions, powers and duties.

The parking adjudication bureau, organized, supervised, and headed by a chief hearing examiner, shall have the following functions, powers and duties: (1) To accept admissions to, and to hear and determine contests of parking violations under this article; (2) To issue subpoenas to compel the attendance of a person to give testimony at hearings and to compel the production of relevant books, papers and other things; (3) To adjudicate all parking violations for which a parking citation has been issued under this article; (4) To compile and maintain complete and accurate records relating to all citations, violations and/or dispositions of parking violations and citations and upon request to prepare complete and accurate transcripts of all hearings conducted by the bureau and to furnish such transcripts to the violator at such violator's expense; (5) To answer within a reasonable period of time all relevant and reasonable inquiries made by a person charged with a parking violation or his attorney concerning the notice of violation served on that person. The bureau must also furnish at the scheduled administrative hearing, to the person charged on his request, a copy of the original notice of violation including all information contained thereon. This shall be the bureau's only obligation under this subsection to provide a copy of the original notice of violation to the person charged. Failure by the bureau to comply with the provisions of this subsection or any part of the provisions of this subsection, within 45 days of such inquiry, forwarded to the bureau by certified or registered mail, return receipt requested, will result, upon the request of the person charged, in an automatic dismissal of all charges relating to and only to that notice of violation to which the inquiry was made.

(Code 1956, § 38-286.3)