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highway work zones for the purpose of recording violations of Code of <br />Virginia, § 46.2- 878.1. <br />(b) For purposes of this article, "highway work zone" has the same meaning <br />ascribed to it in Code of Virginia ,_§ 46.2- 878.1. "school crossing zone" has <br />the same meaning ascribed to it in Code of Virginia. § 46.2 -873, and "photo <br />speed monitoring device" means equipment that uses radar or LIDAR- <br />based speed detection and produces one or more photographs <br />microphotographs, videotapes, or other recorded images of vehicles. <br />(c) The operator of a vehicle shall be liable for a $100 civil penalty pursuant to <br />this section if such vehicle is found, as evidenced by information obtained <br />from a photo speed monitoring device, to be traveling at speeds of at least <br />10 miles per hour above the posted school crossing zone or highway work <br />zone speed limit within such school crossing zone or highway work zone <br />while such zone is active. Any prosecution under this section shall be <br />instituted and conducted in the same manner as prosecution for traffic <br />infractions. Civil penalties collected under this section resulting from a <br />summons issued by the Portsmouth Police Department shall be paid to the <br />city. <br />(d) If a photo speed monitoring device is used, proof of a violation of Code of <br />Virginia, & 46.2 -873 or Code of Virginia. § 46.2- 878.1, as applicable, shall <br />be evidenced by information obtained from such device. A certificate, or a <br />facsimile thereof} sworn to or affirmed by a law enforcement officer <br />employed by the city and authorized to impose penalties pursuant to this <br />section, based upon inspection of photographs, microphotographs, <br />videotapes, or other recorded images produced by photo speed monitoring <br />device, shall be prima facie evidence of the facts contained therein. Any <br />photographs, microphotographs, videotapes, or other recorded images <br />evidencing such a violation shall be available for inspection—in—any <br />proceeding to adjudicate the liability for such violation of Code of Virginia <br />46.2 -873 or Code of Virginia, § 46.2- 878.1. <br />(e) In the prosecution for a violation of Code of Virginia. & 46.2 -873 or Code <br />of Virginia. § 46.2 -878.1 in which a summons was issued by mail, prima <br />facie evidence that the vehicle described in the summons issued pursuant to <br />this section was operated in violation of Code of Virginia, § 46.2 -873 or <br />Code of Virginia. § 46.2- 878.1, as applicable, together with proof that the <br />defendant was at the time of such violation the owner, lessee, or renter of <br />the vehicle, shall constitute in evidence a rebuttable presumption that such <br />owner, lessee, or renter of the vehicle was the person who committed the <br />violation. Such presumption shall be rebutted if the owner, lessee, or renter <br />of the vehicle (i) files an affidavit by regular mail with the clerk of the <br />general district court for the city that he was not the operator of the vehicle <br />at the time of the alleged violation and provides the name and address of the <br />person who was operating the vehicle at the time of the alleged violation, or <br />(ii) testifies in open court, under oath that he was not the operator of the <br />vehicle at the time of the alleged violation and provides the name and <br />address of the person who was operating the vehicle at the time of the <br />