Section 103-42.2 of the Illinois Public Community College Act authorizes the establishment of parking and traffic regulations on lots and roadways which are owned and maintained by the College.

The Board authorizes the administration to establish such regulations as deemed necessary and fines and/or penalties to be used to enforce such regulations.

Procedure

PARKING REGULATIONS

I. General

The following regulations shall govern parking on the campus of Danville Area Community College for all students, faculty, and staff members of the College.

II. Parking Areas

The College hereby designates the areas specified on the Campus as restricted parking areas, restricting parking in the designated areas to students, faculty, staff or visitors to the College. Signs specifying the designated restrictions shall be posted at or near the designated areas. Unless otherwise noted on the sign posted at the designated area, the restrictions shall apply and be in full force and effect at all times.

Students, faculty members, staff members and visitors to the College may only park in the areas for the respective classification and parking in all other areas is prohibited.

III. Permits

A. Visitors and students shall not be required to obtain permits to park in designated areas for parking by visitors or students.

B. Employees, both faculty and staff members, shall be required to obtain a permit to park in the designated areas for faculty and staff parking. The permit shall be displayed by hanging from the driver's rear-view mirror, or in the lower front driver's side or lower rear driver's side window of the vehicle parked in a designated area for faculty and staff members. Parking in designated areas for faculty and staff is not permitted without a properly displayed permit.

IV. Violations: Notices

A. Any person violating the provisions of these Parking Regulations may be subject to the fines and penalties hereinafter specified.

B. Upon a determination by security personnel of the College that a vehicle is parked on the Campus in violation of these Parking Regulations a report of the violation shall be completed and delivered to the Security office of the College. The report shall specify the date, time and location of the violation and the license number of the vehicle.

C. Upon receipt of a report of a violation of these Parking Regulations, the designated office shall complete and mail to the owner or user of the vehicle parking in violation of these Parking Regulations at the last known address of said person, a NOTICE OF PARKING VIOLATION. The notice shall be in a form approved by the President of the College and shall specify the date, time and location of the violation of these Parking Regulations, and shall further specify whether the violation is a first, second, third or subsequent violation of these Parking Regulations for the school calendar year, beginning July 1.

The Notice shall further specify the amount due as a fine for the violation as provided in these Parking Regulations, the time for payment of said fine, the place or places said fine can be paid, and any additional penalties or interest that will become due for a failure to make timely payment of all amounts due for the violation.

V. Fines and Penalties

A. There shall be due and owing to the College as a fine for violations of these Parking Regulations, the following amounts.

1. A written warning for the first violation within the calendar year;
2. $15.00 for the second violation within the calendar year;
3. $30.00 for the third and each subsequent violation committed within the calendar year.

B. Payment of all fines as specified herein must be received at the designated location for payment of fines within 10 calendar days of the date of mailing the Notice as provided herein.

If the required payment is not timely received, a late payment charge of $10.00 shall be due in addition to the specified fine.

C. Any student to whom one or more Notice(s) of Violation have been sent/and for which timely payment has not been received by the College shall have a hold notice placed upon said student's records and no further course registration, grade report, transcript or other record function shall be taken until all amounts due from said student for violations of the Parking Regulations have been paid in full.

D. Any person to whom three (3) or more Notices of Violation have been sent within a calendar year, shall be subject to, in addition to all other fines and penalties provided for herein, having his/her vehicle parked in violation of these Parking Regulations, for the 4th or subsequent violation, removed and towed from the Campus and stored at the towing company premises. Any person whose vehicle is towed from Campus as provided herein, shall be responsible for and shall timely pay all charges for the towing and storage of said vehicle.

VI. Publication of Regulations

A. These regulations shall be in full force and effective beginning August 3 1, 1998. A copy of these Parking Regulations shall also be posted at the Administration Building of the College and copies shall be otherwise posted on the Campus, distributed and published as the President of the College may direct.