§ 27-196. Restricted and no parking areas generally.

(a)

The Chief of Police is hereby authorized and directed to make, promulgate and enforce rules and regulations for the parking or stopping of vehicles upon the highways; to classify vehicles with reference to parking or stopping; to designate the time, place and manner in which such vehicles may be allowed to park or stop upon the highways; to designate areas for bus stops, taxistands and loading zones; and to revoke, alter or amend such rules and regulations at any time when in the Chief's opinion traffic conditions and the use of the highways require. It shall be the duty of the Chief, upon the promulgation of such regulations and before they shall become effective, to give such public notice thereof, by establishing and posting signs or otherwise as may be reasonably adequate to make clear to the operators of vehicles in no parking or restricted parking areas the existence, nature and requirements of such regulations. From and after the effective date of regulations imposed in any area by virtue of this section, it shall be unlawful for any person to stop or park any vehicle in any restricted or prohibited area otherwise than in accordance with these regulations.

(b)

In any prosecution charging a violation of any such ordinance, regulation or rule, proof that the vehicle described in the complaint, summons or warrant was parked in violation of such ordinance, regulation or rule, together with proof that the defendant was at the time of such parking the registered owner of the vehicle, as required by Code of Virginia, title 46.2, ch. 6 (Code of Virginia, § 46.2-600 et seq.), shall constitute in evidence a prima facie presumption that such registered owner of the vehicle was the person who parked the vehicle at the place where and for the time during which such violation occurred.

(Code 1993, § 28-201; Code 2004, § 102-221)

State Law reference— Parking violation presumption, Code of Virginia, § 46.2-1220.

(Code 1993, § 28-201; Code 2004, § 102-221)

State law reference

Parking violation presumption, Code of Virginia, § 46.2-1220.