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Title 11 VEHICLES AND TRAFFIC
Chapter 33 PARKING, STANDING, AND STOPPING

11.33.200 - PRESUMPTION IN REFERENCE TO ILLEGAL PARKING

A. In any prosecution charging a violation of any law or regulation governing the stopping, standing, or parking of a vehicle, proof that the particular vehicle described in the complaint was stopping, standing, or parking in violation of any such law or regulation, together with proof that the defendant named in the complaint was at the time of such violation, the registered owner of such vehicle, shall constitute in evidence a prima facie presumption that the registered owner or such vehicle was the person who parked or placed such vehicle at the point where, and for the time during which, such violation occurred.

B. The foregoing stated presumption shall apply only when the procedure as prescribed in RCW 46.90.720 and Section 11.33.220 has been followed.

[Ord. 1999-04-020]
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