NSW council rangers will soon be banned from issuing ticketless parking fines, with rangers now forced to issue an “on-the-spot notification” to a vehicle which is subject to a fine.
NSW Finance Minister Courtney Houssos will legislate the change this month, in a move backed by NSW Premier, Chris Minns.
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It will mean the rangers will now be forced to put a sticker or traditional parking ticket on the car.
Council rangers will only be allowed to issue ticketless fines if they install signage or if there is no phone reception, such as national parks or in timed, enclosed carparks, The Daily Telegraph reported.
Councils issued 822,310 ticketless parking tickets in the last financial year, up almost 50 per cent from the year before, earning them a whopping $155 million.
On Tuesday, Sunrise reporter Lucy McLeod spoke about the major changes.
“These changes will hopefully give drivers more opportunity to dispute these fines,” McLeod said.
“Often times (drivers) have no idea they’ve been fined until the fine arrives a couple of weeks later in the mail.
“The state government is hoping to change that, introducing legislation this month, which will see rangers forced or required to give on-the-spot notifications, whether that’s a sticker or just a traditional fine.
“Hopefully this will give drivers a bit more opportunity to contest them.”
Ticketless parking fines were first introduced under former NSW Premier Gladys Berejiklian in 2020.
But Houssos said the change back to ticketed penalties was a “common sense” move.
“No one ever likes to get a parking fine, but the idea you only find out about a fine weeks later doesn’t pass the common sense test,” Houssos said.
“Frustration among drivers and community members about the ticketless parking system is high — and that’s fair enough.
“The ticketless parking fine system was introduced by the previous government without regard for the impact on drivers and families.”
