The evaluation of the 2023 Street Cleaning Pilot and recommended language for special legislation to increase fines

How it started

Dec 4, 2023 · Submitted by Yi-An Huang, City Manager.

What happened

Dec 4, 2023 · ✅ Adopted, 7–2: the Council approved it (Order adopted)

Voted yes (7)

Burhan Azeem
Dennis Carlone
Alanna Mallon
Marc McGovern
Patty Nolan
Quinton Zondervan
Sumbul Siddiqui

Voted no (2)

E. Denise Simmons
Paul F. Toner

Roll call of Dec 4, 2023 · from the council’s minutes · photos: City of Cambridge

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AN ACT AUTHORIZING THE CITY OF CAMBRIDGE TO INCREASE THE FINES

FOR FAILURE TO MOVE PARKED VEHICLES DURING STREET CLEANING IN THE CITY ABOVE THE LIMITS SET FORTH IN M.G.L. C. 90, §20A½ OR OTHER APPLICABLE STATE LAWS.

Be it enacted by the Senate and the House of Representatives in the General Court assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows:

Notwithstanding any other general or special law to the contrary:

SECTION 1. The City of Cambridge may prescribe a schedule of fines for violations of its ordinances, rules, and regulations related to the prohibition on parking in any street or part thereof within City bounds for the purposes of facilitating the cleaning of streets beyond the limits of fines prescribed in M.G.L. c. 90, §20A½ or other applicable state laws. SECTION 2.

The City may issue fines authorized under this schedule up to a maximum of two hundred fifty dollars ($250.00), including all applicable fines and penalties. SECTION 3. This act shall take full effect upon passage. In City Council December 4, 2023. Adopted by a yea and nay vote:- Yeas ; 9 Nays 0; Absent 0. Attest:- Diane P. LeBlanc, City Clerk

A true copy; ATTEST:-

Diane P. LeBlanc

City Clerk

🗓 The meeting where this was taken up: Dec 4, 2023