California Vehicle Code ARTICLE 3 - Procedure on Parking Violations

• Section 40200.
  (a) Any violation of any regulation that is not a misdemeanor governing the standing or parking of a vehicle under this code, under any federal statute...
• Section 40200.1.
  A person shall not be subject to both a notice of parking violation and a notice to appear for the same violation.(Added by Stats. 2009,...
• Section 40200.3.
  (a) All parking penalties collected by the processing agency, which may be the issuing agency, including process service fees and fees and collection costs related to...
• Section 40200.4.
  (a) The processing agency shall deposit with the county treasurer all sums due the county as the result of processing a parking violation not later than...
• Section 40200.5.
  (a) Except as provided in subdivision (c) of Section 40200.4, an issuing agency may elect to contract with the county, with a private vendor, or with...
• Section 40200.6.
  (a) If a contract is entered into pursuant to Section 40200.5, for the purposes of this article, “processing agency” means the contracting party responsible for the...
• Section 40200.8.
  The parking processing agency shall notify the department and recall any hold on the registration of a vehicle that it filed with the department in...
• Section 40202.
  (a) If a vehicle is unattended during the time of the violation, the peace officer or person authorized to enforce parking laws and regulations shall securely...
• Section 40203.
  The notice of parking violation shall be accompanied by a written notice of the amount of the parking penalty due for that violation, the address...
• Section 40203.5.
  (a) The schedule of parking penalties for parking violations and late payment penalties shall be established by the governing body of the jurisdiction where the notice...
• Section 40203.6.
  (a) In addition to an assessment levied pursuant to any other law, an additional assessment equal to 10 percent of the penalty established pursuant to Section...
• Section 40204.
  (a) If the parking penalty is received by the person authorized to receive the deposit of the parking penalty and there is no contest as to...
• Section 40205.
  If a person contests the parking violation, the processing agency shall proceed in accordance with Section 40215.(Amended by Stats. 1992, Ch. 1244, Sec. 18. Effective...
• Section 40206.
  (a) If the payment of the parking penalty is not received by the person authorized to receive a deposit of the parking penalty by the date...
• Section 40206.5.
  (a) Within 15 days of a request, by mail or in person, the processing agency shall mail or otherwise provide to any person who has received...
• Section 40207.
  (a) The notice of delinquent parking violation shall contain the information specified in subdivision (a) of Section 40202 or subdivision (a) of Section 40248, as applicable,...
• Section 40208.
  The notice of delinquent parking violation shall contain, or be accompanied with, an affidavit of nonliability and information of what constitutes nonliability, information as to...
• Section 40209.
  If the affidavit of nonliability is returned to the processing agency within 30 calendar days of the mailing of the notice of delinquent parking violation...
• Section 40210.
  (a) If the affidavit of nonliability is returned and indicates that the registered owner served has made a bona fide sale or transfer of the vehicle...
• Section 40211.
  (a) If the registered owner, or an agent of the registered owner, or a rentee or lessee who was served with the notice of delinquent parking...
• Section 40215.
  (a) For a period of 21 calendar days from the issuance of a notice of parking violation or 14 calendar days from the mailing of a...
• Section 40220.
  (a) Except as otherwise provided in Sections 40221 and 40222, the processing agency may proceed under one of the following options in order to collect an...
• Section 40221.
  The processing agency shall not file a civil judgment with the court relating to a parking violation which has been filed with the department unless...
• Section 40222.
  The processing agency shall terminate proceedings on a notice of a delinquent parking violation or violations in all of the following cases:(a) Upon receipt of collected...
• Section 40224.
  The time limitation provided by law for commencement of a civil action for a violation specified in Section 40200 shall be tolled from and after...
• Section 40225.
  (a) An equipment violation entered on the notice of parking violation attached to the vehicle under Section 40203 shall be processed in accordance with this article....
• Section 40226.
  An issuing agency may, in lieu of collecting a fine for a citation for failure to display a disabled placard, charge an administrative fee not...
• Section 40230.
  (a) Within 30 calendar days after the mailing or personal delivery of the final decision described in subdivision (b) of Section 40215, the contestant may seek...

Last modified: October 22, 2018