TITLE 9. REGULATION OF BUSINESSES, TRADES AND PROFESSIONS
CHAPTER 9-2800. UNIVERSITIES, PROPERTY OWNERS OR MANAGERS AND STUDENTS
§9-2804. Vehicle Identification Requirement.
(1) In order to assist the college or university in its
efforts to: contact students in order to notify them of matters involving danger
or threats to health, safety or the general welfare; respond to local or
national emergencies; or respond to any lawful government inquiry, each college
or university that has a substantial portion of its facilities located in whole
or in part in an Educational Housing District shall require that its students
either provide the college or university with the model, make, and license
number of any vehicles owned, operated or controlled by such student, and a copy
of a current registration and valid insurance certificate for each such vehicle,
or certify in writing that the student does not own, operate or control a
vehicle. The college or university shall certify in writing to the Police
Department by October 1 of each year that the college or university has obtained
either the required information or the written certification from at least 95%
of all of its students and shall maintain the privacy and security of all such
information in accordance with the general policies, procedures and operations
of the college or university regarding student data and information.
(2) The college or university shall issue to each student who provides
information regarding vehicle ownership, operation or control a sticker as
evidence that such information has been provided to the university. Such sticker
shall identify the issuing college or university.
(3) Any student
issued such sticker shall affix it to his or her college or university issued
identification card.
(4) The penalty for a college or university's
failure to comply with the provisions of this section, or for a student's
failure to provide accurate information or certification to his or her college
or university, or a student's failure to affix such sticker once issued
shall be a fine of not less than fifty dollars ($50) nor more than one hundred
and fifty dollars ($150). A college or university may not be penalized for
failing to issue a sticker to a student who does not provide the required
information regarding any vehicle owned, operated or controlled by such student.
Each day of non-compliance shall constitute a separate
violation.
(5) Any person authorized to serve parking tickets pursuant
to Chapter 12-2800 of this Code who serves a parking ticket in connection with a
car located in an Educational Housing District that is identified as belonging
to a student for any parking violation under Title 12, The Traffic Code,
including but not limited to violations such as parking in or blocking a
driveway, parking on the sidewalk or parking within fifteen feet of a fire
hydrant, shall also serve a copy of the ticket to the college or university
which has issued sticker reflecting that the car belongs to a
student.
(6) The college or university served such copy of the parking
ticket shall maintain a list of the number of such violations by student and
owner and by vehicle. The college or university shall develop a policy, which
shall be provided to the Police Department, regarding notification to the
college or university student disciplinary body for violations of the provisions
under Title 12, The Traffic Code. A college or university shall not disclose any
information to any person regarding actions taken by or final decisions made by
a college or university student disciplinary body except as provided by law.
Within ten (10) days of receipt of a third notice of parking violation by a
student, the college or university shall provide to the Police Department notice
as to whether the college or university student disciplinary body has been
notified of such third notice of parking violation. A college or university
shall not disclose any information to any person regarding actions taken by or
final decisions made by a college or university student disciplinary body except
as provided by law.
(7) The university or college shall be notified of
the towing of any car for which it has issued a sticker that is subject to
towing pursuant to Section 12-2405.1 of the Code, provided, however, that any
person who incurs a cost for the removal or towing of any vehicle, pursuant to
this subsection, for which a college or university has issued a sticker shall
recover such costs from the student or person who owns, operates or controls
such vehicle and shall notify the college or university of such costs incurred
related to the removal or towing of a vehicle for which the college or
university issued a sticker.