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AN ORDINANCE TO AMEND CHAPTER 23 OF THE CODE OF THE CITY OF PORTSMOUTH, VIRGINIA, 1973, AS AMENDED, BY AMENDING SECTIONS 23-224, 23-267, 23-290, AND 23-293 THEREOF, PERTAINING TO MOTOR VEHICLES. BE IT ORDAINED by the Council of the City of Portsmouth, Virg~nla: 1. That Section 23-224 of the Code of the City of Ports- mouth, Virginia, 1973, be amended to read as follows: Section 23-224. Procedure when vehicle found illegally parked. (a) Except where otherwise provided, it shall be the duty of each police officer of the city to give to the person operat- ing a motor vehicle illegally parked, a notice, or to attach to the vehicle found so parked, a notice to the owner that such vehicle has been illegally parked and instructing him to report to the Portsmouth Police Department Headquarters. Each person so notified may within seventy-two (72) hours from the time when such notice was given or attached to the vehicle, pay the sum of five dollars ($5.00) for each hour or fraction thereof, during which time such vehicle was illegally parked. If the owner of such vehicle fails to make such payment within seventy-two (72) hours of the time such notice was attached to such vehicle, then an additional penalty of five dollars ($5.00) shall be charged for such additional notice. All such monies due shall be paid to the Chief of Police or his designee, who shall be accountable therefor. The failure of the owner of such vehicle to pay the penalty for the violation and the five dollars ($5.00) for the additional notice within eight (8) days from the date of violation shall render such owner subject to the penalties provided in Section 23-1.1. (b) The contest by any person of any parking citation shall be certified in writing, on an appropriate form to the appropriate district court, by the Chief of Police or his designee. (c) The Chief of Police or his designee shall cause complaints, summons or warrants to be issued for delinquent parking citations. However, before any summons shall issue for the prosecution of a violation of an ordinance regulating parking, the violator shall have been first notified by mail at his last known address or at the address shown for such violator on the records of the Division of Motor Vehicles, that he may pay the fine, provided by law for such violation, within five (5) days of receipt of such notice, and the authorized person issuing such summons shall be notified that the