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Ordinance to Create Section 10.181 of the City of West Allis Revised Municipal Code Relating to Vehicle Owner's Liability for Cruising
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The Common Council of the City of West Allis do ordain as follows:
PART I. Section 10.181 of the Revised Municipal Code is hereby created to read as follows:
10.181 Vehicle Owner's Liability for Cruising.
(1) Definitions.
(a) "Dealer" means a person who, for a commission or other thing of value, sells, exchanges, buys or rents, or offers or attempts to negotiate a sale or exchange of an interest in motor vehicles, recreational vehicles, trailers or semitrailers, or who is engaged wholly or in part in the business of selling motor vehicles, recreational vehicles, trailers or semitrailers.
340.01(11)(a)
(b) “Owner” shall mean a lessee of a vehicle or a person who holds the legal title of a vehicle, except that if legal title is held by a secured party with the immediate right of possession of the vehicle vested in the debtor, the debtor is the owner for the purposes of this section.
(2) The owner of a vehicle involved in a violation of 10.18 for cruising shall be presumed liable for the violation as provided in this section.
(3) Notwithstanding subsection (2), no owner of a vehicle involved in a violation of Section 10.18 for cruising may be convicted under this section if the person operating the vehicle or having the vehicle under his or her control at the time of the violation has been convicted for the violation under Section 10.18.
(4) Procedure for Issuance of a Citation. An officer shall investigate the violation and may prepare a municipal citation for the violation. Within seven (7) days of the violation date, an officer shall serve the citation by personally serving it upon the owner of the vehicle, by leaving a copy of the citation at the owner's usual place of abode in compliance with Wisconsin Statute...
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