When a vehicle is found in violation of this chapter or state law, the officer finding the vehicle shall take its license number and any other information displayed on the vehicle which may identify its owner, and shall conspicuously affix to the vehicle a parking citation. The parking citation shall instruct the owner to pay the penalty imposed or contest the citation within 10 days of the date the citation was issued. The citation shall specify how to contest the citation or pay the penalty, and shall clearly explain the consequences for failing to do so within the required time period. The parking citation will serve as the means of notifying the owner of the vehicle that, if any person fails to respond to the citation, or fails to pay all outstanding penalties for three or more parking citations within 10 days from the date the last citation was issued, the vehicle may be towed and impounded. [Ord. 2010-2 § 10.12.140, 2010.]