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SECTION 2. Current Section 82.156 of the City Code is deleted entirely and replaced with Section 82.156 to read as follows: Sec. 82.156. Presumptions; Liability of vehicle owner and operator; Copy of citation; Failure to appear (a) In any administrative adjudication hearing under this article: (1) It is a rebuttable presumption that the registered owner of the motor vehicle is the person who parked or stopped the vehicle at the time and place of the offense charged; and (2) A computer-generated record of the Texas Department of Transportations' files showing the current registered vehicle owner is prima facie evidence of the contents of the record. (b) In an administrative adjudication hearing under this article for a charge of parking in a front or side yard or a vacant lot: (1) It is a rebuttable presumption that the real property owner of the property on which the vehicle is parked is the person who allowed the vehicle to remain parked at the time and place of the offense charged; and (2) A computer-generated record of the Hays, Caldwell, Guadalupe or Coma I County Tax Assessors' files showing the current real property owner is prima facie evidence of the contents of the record. (c) For a citation charging a person with removing a parking ticket from the vehicle of another or placing a ticket from the vehicle of another on the person's vehicle, proof that the parking ticket found on a vehicle contains identifying information for a different vehicle, creates a rebuttable presumption that the person named in the citation removed the ticket from the vehicle of another or placed a ticket from another vehicle on the person's own vehicle. (d) For a citation charging use of a prior ticket, proof that the time of issuance on the ticket is more than 24 hours prior to the time the ticket is found, creates a rebuttable presumption that the person named in the citation placed the prior ticket on the vehicle. (e) For any parking or stopping citation: