City looks to crack down on unpaid parking tickets
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Updated: September 18, 2009 8:54 AM
Drivers with unpaid citations are being served a loud warning that if they don’t pay their tickets they will be towed.
Penticton council will be voting on an amendment to the parking bylaw at their next regular meeting on Monday that could have illegal parkers digging deeper into their pocketbooks should they get caught.
“If you have more than three outstanding tickets, so they haven’t been paid, you can get towed. There is no time limit on those so it is not like it is three per month, it is three forever,” said director of development and engineering, Mitch Moroziuk.
“If you have more than three tickets even though you have paid them but they are all in the same spot — because there are some people that are repeat offenders they basically just say I’m going to park here and as my cost of doing business I will just simply pay the parking tickets everyday — you can be towed as well.”
It is expected that council will adopt the amended bylaw next week, and it will come into effect sometime after that. City staff noted that the public would be advised of the change.
Moroziuk said the city bylaw officers have the technology to trace where an offending vehicle has received tickets through their electronic hand-held units that track the tickets by licence plate number.
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