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Cities of Arden Hills, Shoreview, Vadnais Heights, North Oaks, Little Canada, Gem Lake and White Bear Township ORDINANCE NO. AN ORDINANCE AMENDING ORDINANCE ESTABLISHING A PROCEDURE FOR ENFORCING ADMINISTRATIVE OFFENSES The Councils for the Cities of Arden Hills, Shoreview, Vadnais Heights, North Oaks, Little Canada, Gem Lake and White Bear Township do ordain as follows: SECTION 1: The following chapter shall be added to Municipal Code for the Cities of Arden Hills, Shoreview, Vadnais Heights, North Oaks, Little Canada, Gem Lake and White Bear Township. §205.010 ADMINISTRATIVE OFFENSES §205.070 §205 ADMINISTRATIVE OFFENSES. 205.010 PURPOSE. Administrative offense procedures established pursuant to this chapter are intended to provide the public and the City with an informal, cost effective, and expeditious alternative to traditional criminal charges for violations of certain ordinance provisions. The procedures are intended to be voluntary on the part of those who have been charged with administrative offenses. At any time prior to the payment of the administrative penalty as is provided for hereafter, the individual may withdraw from participation in the procedures in which event the City may bring criminal charges in accordance with the law. Likewise, the City in its discretion, may choose not to initiate an administrative offense and may bring criminal charges in the first instance. In the event a party participates in the administrative offense procedures but does not pay the monetary penalty which may be imposed, the City will seek to collect costs of the administrative offense procedures as part of a subsequent criminal sentence in the event the party is charged and is adjudicated guilty of the criminal violation. 205.020 ADMINISTRATIVE OFFENSE DEFINED. An administrative offense is a violation of a provision of this code and is subject to the administrative penalties set forth in the schedule of offenses and penalties referred to in Section 205.090, hereafter. 205.030 NOTICE. Any officer of the White Bear Lake Police Department, or any other person employed by the City, authorized in writing by the City Manager, and having authority to enforce this code, shall, upon determining that there has been a violation, notify the violator, or in the case of a vehicular violation, attach to the vehicle a notice of the violation. Said notice shall set forth the nature, date and time of the violation, the name of the official issuing the notice, and the amount of the scheduled penalty. 4