Tuesday, March 3, 2009
City Looks at Boot, Fees for Unpaid Parking Tickets
Posted Tue, Mar 3, 2009 at 4:00 AM
City Court Clerk Thomas Long brought the City Council's economic development committee several recommendations this morning, among them electronic pay stations, doubled fines, and the dreaded "boot," which renders a car immobile.
Long told the council the city loses $1.5 to $2 million annually in unpaid parking tickets. Under state law, the statute of limitations for parking tickets is only one year. Because many residents know that fact, they choose not to pay.
"If I park my car downtown and get a ticket, then after that I'll take my car and hide it or do whatever I need to do," Long said. "After one year, why pay?"
Long asked the council to add changing the statute of limitations to its legislative agenda bound for Nashville.
"We need more than one year to collect non-moving violations. The city of New Orleans has 10 years," Long said.
For more, visit Mary Cashiola's In The Bluff blog.
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Do you mean to tell me that cars with unpaid parking tickets aren't already booted in Memphis?...Duh!...What have we been waiting on?...The city needs to either get serious about enforcing the parking laws or drop most of the laws.
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