FILED ON: 6/30/2022

SENATE  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  No. 2978

The Commonwealth of Massachusetts

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In the One Hundred and Ninety-Second General Court
(2021-2022)

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An Act authorizing the city of Gloucester to increase parking fines.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General Court assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows:
 

SECTION 1. Chapter 104 of the acts of 2018 is hereby repealed.

SECTION 2. Notwithstanding any general or special law to the contrary, the city of Gloucester may, upon approval by the city council and mayor, raise any parking fine established pursuant to section 20A½ of chapter 90 of the General Laws; provided, however, that a fine established for all other parking violations pursuant to said section 20A½ of said chapter 90 shall: (i) if paid not more than 21 days after the issuance of the fine, be not more than $150; (ii) if paid more than 21 days after the issuance of the fine but before the parking clerk reports to the registrar as provided for under said section 20A½ of said chapter 90, be not more than $160; and (iii) if paid more than 21 days after the issuance of the fine and after the parking clerk has so reported, be not more than $175.