Rule 69 - Municipal Divisions
Rule 69.2 - Violations Bureaus
2.1 - GENERAL VIOLATIONS BUREAU MAY BE ESTABLISHED
A general and/or a traffic violations bureau may be established by each Municipal division to accept appearances of parties charged with ordinance violations in designated cases of "traffic" and general ordinance violations where guilty pleas may be received on waiver of trial and payment of designated fines and costs. The Municipal Court's Administrator/Clerk is hereby designated violations clerk of such Violations Bureaus, and it shall be the violations clerk's function to cause to be processed therein such designated ordinance violation charges in accordance with the schedule of fines and costs established by the Municipal Court. In addition, the violations clerk shall perform the following duties:
(1) Receive, and issue receipts for, bail from persons who must or wish to be heard in court and enter the time of their appearance.
(2) Keep records which shall contain all pertinent data relative to the original procedure and ultimate disposition of each case and make such reports as may be required by the Municipal Court.
(a) Any person charged with a payable ordinance violation at the Violations Bureau may appear in person or by attorney or by any member of his immediate family before the violations clerk and pay the fine established for the ordinance violation charged and costs. In the alternative, the fine and costs may be paid by mail.ADOPTED 12/21/90