Alberta making changes to minor ticket fines, will use auto registries
Posted Apr 13, 2016 3:48 pm.
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Albertans who fail to pay fines for minor offences may soon discover they can’t register their vehicles.
The province has proposed legislation to change how it handles infractions such as littering, jaywalking, trespassing and riding a transit train without a ticket.
People could still fight a ticket in court, but if they didn’t, or were convicted, they would no longer be issued a warrant or face getting arrested.
The fine would come up instead when they tried to re-register their vehicle.
If that isn’t effective, the province says it will pursue other civil measures such as deducting the fine from income tax rebates.
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