California cities will be prohibited from ticketing people who park at broken parking meters. A new law for 2014 nullifies any city ordinance that had allowed the practice.
Listen to the interview with Assemblyman Gatto by visiting Capitol Public Radio HERE
Thursday, January 02, 2014
- By Bob Moffitt
"There were a number of cities across California that were considering policies like this that would have undone almost 90 years of parking meter law," said Gatto.
"Since the dawn of parking meter, it was just an accepted fact that if the meter was broken and if the city had failed to fix it, that you could park there for free."
~Assemblyman Mike Gatto
The law protects against any meter failure including power or phone service interruptions to newer, multi-space kiosks...
...Assemblyman Gatto said Los Angeles was the largest city to allow broken-meter tickets, but other cities had considered or implemented similar practices. He calls them unfair.
"They do I guess what's called 'congestion pricing' in San Francisco where the price of certain digital meters goes up if there is fewer digital meters online," he said. "So, what was happening in San Francisco is they were leaving the meters broken so that the price of the existing meters could go up."
The Los Angeles City Council repealed its parking ordinance in July -- after the State Assembly and Senate had passed Gatto's bill.
The State Legislature will likely review this subject again in the next few years. The law expires in 2017.
You can listen to the interview with Assemblyman Gatto and read more from Capitol Public Radio HERE
Mike Gatto is the Chairman of the Appropriations Committee in the California State Assembly. He represents Burbank, Glendale, La Cañada Flintridge, La Crescenta, Montrose, and the Los Angeles neighborhoods of Atwater Village, East Hollywood, Franklin Hills, Hollywood Hills, Los Feliz, and Silver Lake. www.asm.ca.gov/gatto
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