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With accrued fines on unpaid Baltimore City parking tickets averaging about $700 - sometimes for tickets as low as $12 - City Councilman Bernard "Jack" Young introduced legislation Monday night to cap the maximum late fee to five times the amount of the original ticket.
"People have said they want the parking fees to be more in line with the cost of tickets," Young said Monday evening at a City Council meeting.
Scott Peterson, a spokesman for Baltimore Mayor Sheila Dixon, said the city's Finance Department is studying the idea and the administration does not have a position yet on the bill.
The city hired a collection agency in 2000 to put pressure on scofflaws who owe $132 million in parking fines.
- Annie Linskey
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