§ 31-52. Duties and responsibilities of the Department of Transportation.

(a) The Director of Transportation must maintain records of and control the issuance of pre- numbered parking violation notices to the Department of Police and other departments authorized by the County Executive to enforce the law relative to illegal parking.

(b) The Director shall maintain receivable files for all parking violation notices issued by the said officers of said agencies and record the final disposition of each notice of violation issued.

(c) All fines, penalties, costs and other charges imposed by this chapter for illegal parking violations shall be payable to Montgomery County, Maryland and the Director shall administer and collect all such charges in accordance with the written regulations imposed by the county executive and by this chapter.

(d) Upon receipt of notification that the recipient of a notice of violation intends to stand trial for said offense, the Director shall notify the court and forward such records as necessary to conduct said trial. In addition, notice shall also be given to the officer who issued said notice of violation to advise said officer that his presence at the trial has been requested by the defendant.

(e) The Director may, in accordance with the procedures prescribed by the state motor vehicle administration and state law, give or cause to be given notice to said administration of all vehicles registered by the state and the subject of any outstanding and past due parking violation of this Code and request that the administration refuse registration or transfer of registration of the subject vehicle, until notified by the county that said violation has been satisfied.

In such cases, the Director of finance may impose an additional cost of ten dollars ($10.00), or as may be otherwise established from time to time by the county executive by executive regulation adopted under method (3) of section 2A-15 of this Code, for each registration withheld; and the owner of the vehicle shall be subject to payment of such costs, and all other fines, penalties and charges before notice is given to the administration that the subject violation has been satisfied and the registration is released. (1978 L.M.C., ch. 7, § 2; 1984 L.M.C., ch. 24, § 36; , § 1; , § 1.)

Editor’s note—, § 3, states: Sec. 3. Any regulation in effect when this Act takes effect that implements a function transferred to another Department or Office under Section 1 of this Act continues in effect, but any reference in any regulation to the Department from which the function was transferred must be treated as referring to the Department to which the function is transferred. The transfer of a function under this Act does not affect any right of a party to any legal proceeding begun before this Act took effect.