New York, NY – $40M Loss For NYC As Parking Tix Invalidated On Technicality

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    FILE - A parking ticket issued by the NYPD is seen on a car in the Queens borough of New York January 7, 2015. REUTERSNew York, NY – It was a lucky break for hundreds of thousands of drivers who found their parking tickets overturned on a technicality, costing New York City’s Department of Finance millions in lost revenue.

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    WCBS News (http://cbsloc.al/2yYGtup) reported that 507,668 tickets were issued with an incorrect violation code to drivers who either failed to display a Muni Meter receipt or had an expired receipt on their dashboards.

    The violation code had been changed earlier in the year by a single digit, but the old code continued to be printed on tickets for an unknown period of time.

    The Department of Finance issued letters to all affected driver informing them that the tickets had been invalidated. 400,860 tickets were refunded and another 106,808 dismissed, costing the city approximately $44 million.


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    AmYisroel
    AmYisroel
    6 years ago

    Good may they lose even more

    ralph1527
    ralph1527
    6 years ago

    Not a problem …just raise RE,Water,& Sewer !!!!

    6 years ago

    They didn’t lose. The money was never theirs. There is a certain amount of enforcement for parking regulations that is needed. Much of the ticketing is “gotcha” stuff, and should be prohibited.

    Yossy111
    Yossy111
    6 years ago

    Silly stuff. They never lose, they will recoup the money in other ways – from us!

    triumphinwhitehouse
    triumphinwhitehouse
    6 years ago

    does this mean, there will be less welfare for the lazy?

    6 years ago

    The city should not be allowed to profit off people breaking the law, because it gives the city an incentive to have more lawbreaking.