The City of Moose Jaw is sending out letters this week to individuals with outstanding parking tickets.
“Outstanding isn’t fine” is a new campaign that the city has launched to recoup lost revenue from unpaid parking tickets.
According to a report to city council in December of 2022, there was over 4,000 people who owed a total of $1.08 million in outstanding fines.
“Parking ticket revenue contributes to fund City operations like infrastructure repair,” City Manager Maryse Carmichael said in a press release. “The City of Moose Jaw has a list of thousands of unpaid parking tickets totaling almost one million dollars. It’s our responsibility to Moose Jaw taxpayers and to the majority of people that do pay their parking tickets, that we enforce our penalties.”
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In February, Moose Jaw City Council passed the Impounding Bylaw No. 5689 that gives the city the power to “seize, impound, immobilize, sell or otherwise deal with or dispose of vehicles to enforce and collect fines for parking offences.”
Those who receive a letter in the mail will have a 60-day deadline to pay their outstanding parking tickets. If the fines are not paid within 60 days, offenders may have their vehicle towed or impounded until the outstanding fine is paid.
Information on how to make fine payments can be found on the Parking page on the City of Moose Jaw website.
Those with questions can contact the city’s Legislative Services and Enforcement Department at 306-694-4487 or email bylaw@moosejaw.ca.