Sec. 15-43. Uncontested payment of parking citation penalties; certification of contest of citation.

(a) Every person receiving a citation from a law-enforcement officer that he has violated a provision of this Code regulating parking may waive his right to appear and be tried for the offense set forth in the citation. Such waiver shall be effective upon voluntary payment of ten dollars ($10.00) to the county treasurer's office, within five (5) days after receipt of the citation, or upon voluntarily placing ten dollars ($10.00) in a reply mail envelope and mailing it to the county treasurer's office, so that it is postmarked within forty-eight (48) hours after receipt of the citation; provided, however, that any citation for a violation of section 15-47.1 with respect to parking in a space reserved for persons with disabilities or for a violation of section 15-48(c) with respect to the parking of certain classes of vehicles in areas zoned for residential use shall require a voluntary payment of fifty dollars ($50.00) to effectuate the aforesaid waiver.

(b) All uncontested parking citations paid under this section shall be accounted for by the county treasurer. The contest, by any person, of a parking citation shall be certified, in writing, upon an appropriate form, to the general district court by the county treasurer.

(c) Whenever a reply mail envelope is used for transmitting cash, check, draft of money order by mail to the county treasurer's office pursuant to the provisions of this section, the responsibility for receipt of the cash, check, draft or money order by the treasurer shall be that of the registered owner of the vehicle on which the citation was placed.