Current through Register Vol. 54, No. 44, November 2, 2024
Section 71.44 - Compliance with procedure, parking violations, fines and penalties(a)General. Failure to comply with the procedures contained in this chapter and the posted parking instructions or restrictions at Commonwealth owned or leased parking areas shall constitute unauthorized parking and operators of vehicles involved in the violation will be cited accordingly.(b)Parking violations. Additionally, vehicle operators will be cited for violation when the vehicle they are operating, whether attended or unattended, is parked in any of the following: (3) Unloading zone or entrance ramp.(4) Reserved parking space or stall.(c)Fines and payment. Any person who receives from a Capitol Police Officer a citation for violation of the parking rules and regulations contained in this chapter may pay a fine of $5 (increased to $6.00 if not paid within 48 hours from date of violation) at the Capitol Police Office, Room 1, Basement, Main Capitol Building, Harrisburg, Pennsylvania 17125. If the violator fails to pay the fine within the cited period, the record of violation will be forwarded to the District Justice of Peace.(d)Penalty. Any person violating this chapter shall, upon summary conviction thereof, be sentenced to pay a fine of $6 and costs of prosecution and in default of payment, imprisonment for not more than 5 days.(e)Enforcement provisions. Enforcement provisions shall conform with the following: (1) Informations, charging violations of any of the summary provisions of this chapter in such detail as the department may prescribe as being necessary for its records, shall be brought before the designated District Justice of Peace within the city, borough, incorporated town, or township in the county where the alleged violation occurred within 90 days after the commission of the alleged offense and not thereafter, except that where an information is filed against a person prima facie guilty of a summary offense, and it subsequently appears that a person other than the person named in the information was the offender or violator, an information may be filed against such other person within 30 days after his or her identity shall have been discovered, and not thereafter.(2) Any salaried member of the Capitol Police, Commonwealth Property Police, Security or Campus Police employed by the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, when in uniform or exhibiting his badge or other sign of authority, whenever a violation of the rules and regulations described in this chapter is committed in his presence, shall be vested with the authority to present the alleged offender a printed notice citing the offense or violation, the reverse side of which shall contain the amounts of the fines and instructions for payment.(3) The police authority, upon accepting the fine from an individual for a cited offense of violation, shall issue a receipt to the person acknowledging payment and shall record the payment upon the docket. If payment is made by check or money order, no receipt will be prepared. When cleared by bank or Post Office the check or money order provides a record of payment.The provisions of this §71.44 amended through August 9, 1974, 4 Pa.B. 1668.