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RESOLUTION NO.: 2010-068
A RESOLUTION AUTHORIZING ADMINISTRATIVE CITATIONS FOR CERTAIN
TRAFFIC OFFENSES PURSUANT TO MINN. STAT. § t69.999 -
The City Council of the City of Arden Hills, Minnesota, ordains:
WHEREAS: The City is authorized to provide for the issuance of administrative citations for
specific traffic offenses designated at Minn. Stat. § 169.999, subd. I(b)(1), (2) and
(3), in the amount designated at Minn. Stat. § 169.999, subd. 5, as it may be
amended from time to time; and
WHEREAS: The authority to issue administrative traffic citations authorized by this resolution
is reserved by law exclusively to licensed peace officers; and
WHEREAS: City peace officers may not issue administrative traffic citations in violation of
Minn. Stat. § 169.999; and
WHEREAS: The City is required to notify a recipient of an administrative traffic citation of his
or her right to contest the citation and to appoint a neutral third party to hear and
rule on challenges to administrative traffic citations authorized by this resolution;
and
WHEREAS: Minn. Stat. § 169.999 contains numerous requirements related to the issuance of
administrative traffic citations including but not limited to prescribing a uniform
traffic citation form, use and sharing of fine revenues, and other administrative
measures.
NOW THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF
ARDEN HILLS, MINNESOTA:
1. The City hereby authorizes the issuance of administrative citations for traffic
offenses designated at Minn. Stat. § 169999, subd. l(b)(1), (2) and (3), as it may
be amended from time to time; and
2. The City hereby sets the fine for committing an administrative traffic violation
designated by Minn. Stat. § 169.999 and this resolution at the amount designated
by Minn. Stat. § 169.999, subd. 5, as it may be amended from time to time; and
3. The City hereby directs that only licensed peace officers may issue administrative
traffic citations authorized by this resolution; and
4. The City hereby directs that no licensed peace officer may issue an administrative
traffic citation in violation of Minn. Stat. § 169.999; and
5. The City hereby directs that no administrative traffic citation authorized by this
resolution may be issued to a holder of a commercial driver's license or the driver
of a commercial vehicle in which the administrative violation was committed; and
6. The City hereby adopts the uniform administrative traffic citation form prescribed
by the Commissioner of Public Safety; -
7. The City designates its law enforcement agency, the Ramsey County Sheriffs
Department and its licensed peace officers ("RCS"), as the manager of the City's
administrative traffic citation program. Specifically, the RCS shall:
A. Operate the City's administrative traffic citation program in compliance
with the provisions of City Code §904, as amended from time to time;
B. Issue administrative traffic citations on forms approved by the
Commissioner of Public Safety;
C. Provide recipients of an administrative traffic citation with a response
form that includes the following information and other information as -
deemed appropriate by the RCS:
1. The recipient's right to challenge the citation;
2. The process for handling challenges to administrative traffic
citations;
3. The location, dates, and times designated to hear administrative
traffic citation challenges;
4. The process for paying an administrative traffic citation;
5. Effect of an administrative traffic citation on recipient's driving
record; and
6. The time within which to submit a response to the RCS.
D. Assign a neutral third party designated by the RCS to hear and rule on
challenges to administrative traffic citations fines;
E. Collect and administer the revenue and expenses of administrative traffic
citations program;
F. Account for the portion of the administrative traffic citation fine revenue
that must be applied to law enforcement expenditures;
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G. Provide the City with the administrative fine program information that _
needs to be included in the City's financial reports, summaries and audits
in keeping with common accounting practice and standards.
S. City staff is hereby directed to inform the Commissioner of Public Safety of the
passage of this resolution; -
The motion for the adoption of the foregoing resolution was proposed by Council
member n efa If and was duly seconded by Council member -
Gc✓tcQl'u�?f and upon vote being taken thereon, the following voted in favor:
And the following voted against the same:
Whereupon said resolution was declared duly passed and adopted by the City Council of
the City of Arden Hills, on this 29"'day of November, 2010.
By: ATTEST:
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tanley H911jae, or Patrick Klaers, City Administrator
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