§ 74-71. Liability for payment of parking ticket violations.

Under authority of F.S. ch. 316, the owner of a vehicle is responsible and liable for payment of any parking violation under this article unless the owner can furnish evidence that the vehicle was, at the time of the parking violation, in the care, custody or control of another person. In such instance, the owner of the vehicle is required, within a reasonable time after notification of the parking violation, to furnish the chief of police or his designee an affidavit setting forth the name, address and driver's license number of the person or company who leased, rented, or otherwise had the care, custody or control of the vehicle. The affidavit submitted under this section is admissible in a proceeding charging a parking ticket violation and raises the rebuttable presumption that the person identified in the affidavit is responsible for payment of the parking ticket violation. The owner of a vehicle is not responsible for the vehicle if it is stolen or in the care, custody, or control of some person who did not have permission of the owner to use the vehicle. Prima facie evidence that the vehicle involved was at the time stolen or in the care, custody or control of some person who did not have permission of the owner to use the vehicle shall be in the form of a report from the appropriate law enforcement official that the vehicle was not under the care, custody or control of the owner of the vehicle.

(Code 1988, § 21-20; Ord. No. 10-14, § 2, 3-25-10)

State law reference

Similar provisions, F.S. § 316.1967.