§ 15-265. Owner prima facie responsible for illegal parking.

If any vehicle is found upon a street, alley, highway, public place, parking lot, drive-in, driveway or entrance drive, in violation of any of the provisions of this chapter regulating the stopping, standing or parking of vehicles, the owner or person in whose name such vehicle is registered shall be held prima facie responsible for such violation; except, however, when such vehicle is being permissively used by a lessee and is illegally parked and the registered owner-lessor of such vehicle furnishes to the police department the name, address and operator's license number of the person renting or leasing the vehicle at the time the violation occurred, within three working days from the time of receipt of written request for such information, then the person whose name has been supplied by the owner-lessor as the person who rented or leased the vehicle shall be held prima facie responsible for such violation; provided, however, that in the event that any registered owner-lessor fails or refuses to provide such information within such three-day period or in the event that a leased motor vehicle is illegally parked due to a defect in such vehicle, which renders it inoperable, not caused by the fault or negligence of the lessee, then such registered owner-lessor shall be liable for any violation for the illegal parking of such vehicle.

(Code 1973, § 14-188)