Official:Amending Chapter 12-2800 of The Philadelphia Code, entitled "Administrative Adjudication of Parking Violations," by providing that additional fees and costs shall be imposed for failure to answer a parking ticket only when a notice of violation, issued with respect to such ticket, has not been answered within a specified period of time, increasing certain penalties and costs, revising the time period required to answer a parking ticket and making certain technical changes, all under certain terms and conditions.
Sponsor: Councilmember Greenlee
Introduced: October 27, 2011
: Committee on Law and Government
Status: Signed into Law, step 4 of 4
This bill makes it harder for Philadelphians to ignore parking tickets by adding extra fees if they don't respond within a certain time frame. The deadline to answer a ticket is also being extended from 8 days to 15 days.
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