The South Portland City
Council has approved an amnesty period on overdue parking tickets through Feb.
28, 2013.
Fines normally double if
unpaid after 15 days of the issuance of a ticket, unless appealed to Cumberland
County Unified Court, but the late fees will be waived in hopes people will
make good on their old tickets.
City Manager Jim Gailey
said notices will be sent “in the next couple of weeks” to holders of
“hundreds” of outstanding tickets dating to 2009. Finance Director Greg
L’Heureux has said the city would take in “about $136,000” if all delinquent
parking tickets were paid.
The amnesty offering follows
council passage Dec. 3 of an ordinance update that will allow the clerk’s
office to deny registration renewals on any car belonging to a person with
unpaid parking tickets. That rule went into effect Dec. 23.
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