§12-1403. Summary Procedure.
(1) Any person who has received a traffic violation
notice in accordance with the provisions of this Title, shall have the option of
paying the prescribed fine to the Traffic Court within eight days after receipt
of such notice, by completing the space on the ticket whereby such person waives
a hearing and acknowledges commission of the violations
charged.
[72] (2) If such person fails
to pay the fine within the prescribed period, as aforesaid, summary proceedings
shall be initiated in the Traffic Court as
follows:
[73] (a) An information
charging the violation shall be lodged with the Traffic Court within fifteen
days of the commission of the offense; within thirty days thereafter the Traffic
Court shall send by certified mail to the person charged with the violation, at
his address as shown on the records of the Department of Revenue of the
Commonwealth, or shall cause to be served upon him personally by delivery at the
said address, a notice in writing with a copy thereof, and a notice to appear on
a date fixed within thirty days.
(b) An information charging the
parking violation shall be lodged with the Traffic Court within fifteen days of
the commission of the offense; within thirty days thereafter the Traffic Court
shall send by first class mail to the person charged with the parking violation,
at his address as shown on the records of the Department of Revenue of the
Commonwealth, or shall cause to be served upon him personally by delivery at the
said address, a notice in writing with a copy thereof, and a notice to appear on
a date fixed within thirty days.
(c) If the person named in the
information shall not appear within sixty days of the date set in said written
notice, a warrant shall then be issued according to law for such person's
arrest. A hearing shall thereafter be had and disposition of such case be made
in accordance with law.