A car abandoned can accumulate the tickets to the infinite

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Since at least 12 July, that car is parked on the rue Saint-Jacques in the district of Saint-Henri and accumulates parking tickets at the rate of one a week, but nobody seems to know if it will happen.

Vincent Larin

Thursday, 27 July 2017 22:31

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Residents of the district of Saint-Henri are curious that a vehicle that was visibly left behind on the rue Saint-Jacques accumulates the violations for more than a month without the intervention of the authorities.

“If it happens, it is someone who is dead in his apartment, and the guy parking does not ask questions and just get a ticket every week “, said Richard Archambault, a resident of the rue Saint-Jacques.

A car grey brand Hyundai is parked in front of his house for several weeks and has not budged an inch while its owner seems to have disappeared.

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The passage of the Journal, at least four tickets were placed on the windshield of the vehicle. The earliest still readable was given on 12 July 2017, or three weeks ago.

But it could be that the car to be there for even longer, according to a resident.

“It is surely a stolen car. She appeared one morning, like that, and since then, she has not moved, ” says Dan Cyr who runs a cottage situated on the other side of the street.

And this car could still stay there for a long time, since no limit of tickets and / or time is not set by the Service de police de Montréal (SPVM).

No maximum

In fact, parking enforcement officers, which fall under the SPVM, may submit a notice of infraction per day, and this, as long as they want, says the police.

“Namely, is there a maximum number, it is not,” said the spokesperson for the SPVM, Andrée-Anne Picard.

If no citizen reports the situation to the police, the decision to notify is up to the parking agents, who cannot investigate themselves on the owners of vehicles. This choice may be taken at any time, sometimes after several weeks.

Checks are then made to contact the owner of the vehicle, ” says Andrée-Anne Picard.

“If we joined the owner and he told us that he is gone in Europe for three months and it is parked in an area where it does not have the right for two hours on Tuesday, he will have a report every week for three months,” she says.

Vehicle stolen ?

In most cases, the abandoned vehicles have been stolen, confirms another spokesperson for the SPVM, Raphael Bergeron.

If, however, the car has not been stolen and that it is impossible to get in contact with the owner, the police call for a tug that will come and pick it.

This step is however used as a last resort.

“For the vehicle is regarded as abandoned […] these are steps that are long,” says Andrée-Anne Picard. Unless the vehicle harm really to traffic, there was no urgency to the move. “

The SPVM did not want to comment on the particular case of the auto grey left abandoned on the rue Saint-Jacques.