A. The parking regulations set forth in this chapter shall be enforced by the chief of police or her/his designee(s).

B. Failure to perform any act required or the performance of any prohibited act by this chapter is designated as an infraction and shall not constitute a criminal offense.

C. The chief of police or her/his designee(s) has the authority to issue an infraction when the parking violation is committed in the officer’s presence.

D. If any vehicle is found parked, or stopped in violation of this chapter, or otherwise violates the provisions of this chapter, the chief of police or her/his designee(s) finding the vehicle shall take its regulation number (license number) and may take any other information displayed on the vehicle which may identify its user, and shall conspicuously affix to the vehicle a parking violation. A parking infraction represents a determination that a parking violation has been committed. The determination will be final unless contested as provided by the Revised Code of Washington, Court Rules and provided on the back of the infraction.

E. The chief of police or her/his designee(s) enforcing the parking regulation of the city shall, and are hereby authorized to, mark such vehicles parked from time to time to aid in the enforcement of this chapter. Such mark shall be in chalk upon the tires of said vehicle or by some other convenient method which does not damage the vehicle. It shall constitute a parking violation to interfere with, conceal, obliterate or erase any mark in violation of this section.

F. Whenever any vehicle or person is in violation of the provisions of this chapter, the department shall deliver a notice of parking infraction to the violator, or, in cases where a vehicle is found without a driver, shall conspicuously affix such notice to the vehicle. Such notice of parking infraction shall be on a form approved by the chief and shall indicate the charge, time of issuance, license number of the vehicle, identify the street upon which the violation occurred, and direct the violator to present the notice at the police department or such other location as may be designated and pay the specified fine or request a hearing as may be specified on the notice.

G. A separate violation of this chapter shall be deemed to have occurred when, after issuance of an infraction, eight or more consecutive hours pass and there has been no change in the status of the offending vehicle.

H. Impoundment. The chief of police or her/his designee(s) may take custody of a vehicle and provide for its prompt removal to a place of safety whenever: (i) a vehicle is parked in a public right-of-way or on other publicly owned or controlled property in violation of any law, ordinance or regulation, and (ii) there are two or more Monroe parking infractions issued against the vehicle for each of which a person has failed to respond, failed to appear at a requested hearing, or failed to pay.