Parking violations.

Plain English Breakdown

The bill does not provide specific details on how long payment plans can last or if there are limits to reducing or waiving fines.

Parking Violation Rules

AB-1299 allows parking citation processing agencies to reduce or waive fines for those who show financial hardship or other extenuating circumstances and permits people to request a payment plan at any time.

What This Bill Does

• Allows the issuing agency to reduce or waive parking penalties if someone shows they cannot pay due to financial hardship or other relevant reasons, including homelessness status.
• Permits individuals to request a payment plan for unpaid parking citations at any time.

Who It Names or Affects

• People who receive parking violations
• Parking citation processing agencies

Terms To Know

extenuating circumstances

Special reasons that make it hard to pay a fine, like being homeless or having financial problems.

payment plan

An agreement where someone pays back their fines in smaller amounts over time.

Limits and Unknowns

• The bill does not specify how long payment plans can last.
• It is unclear if there are limits on how much a fine can be reduced or waived.

Official Summary Text

AB 1299, Bryan.
Parking violations.
Existing law requires a specified administrative hearing process in the enforcement and processing of parking violations and penalties, and requires the issuing agency to conduct an initial administrative review of the notice of parking violation at the request of the contestant to whom the notice was mailed. Existing law authorizes an examiner conducting the hearing or the issuing agency to allow payment of the parking penalty in installments, and authorizes the issuing agency to defer payment if the contestant provides satisfactory evidence to the examiner or the issuing agency, as the case may be, of the inability to pay the parking penalty in full.
This bill would authorize the issuing agency to reduce or
waive the parking penalty if the contestant provides satisfactory evidence of either an inability to pay the parking penalty in full or any other extenuating circumstances relevant to payment of the parking penalty, including, but not limited to, documented homelessness status and financial hardship.
Existing law authorizes a parking citation processing agency, as defined, to collect an unpaid parking penalty by requesting the Department of Motor Vehicles to place a registration hold on the vehicle to which the citations have been issued, or by obtaining a civil judgment against the registered owner of the vehicle, as specified. Existing law requires a processing agency to offer a payment plan for unpaid parking citations to qualified indigent persons. Existing law requires the payment plan to meet specified conditions, including, among others, that
a person is allowed a period of 120 calendar days from the issuance of a notice of parking violation or 10 days after the administrative hearing determination, whichever is later, to file a request to participate in a payment plan.
This bill would allow the person to file a request to participate in a payment plan at any time.

Current Bill Text

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