The D.C. Council moved forward legislation Thursday that would allow immediate towing and impoundment of vehicles with counterfeit or obscured license plates. The bill aims to address reckless driving and strengthen parking enforcement.
A key vote on Thursday moved forward legislation that would allow immediate towing and impoundment of vehicles with counterfeit or obscured license plates. The Committee on Public Works & Operations also passed a bill to give the Department of For-Hire Vehicles the authority to regulate food and parcel delivery activities.
B25-0435, the “Fraudulent Vehicle Tag and Parking Enforcement Modernization Amendment Act of 2024”, gives the Department of Public Works and other enforcement agencies authority to immediately tow and impound cars whose owners have blatantly flouted the law by having clearly counterfeit, obscured, or long-expired plates. This legislation would also empower the D.C. Attorney General to proactively investigate and shut down dealers and distributors of falsified and counterfeit temporary tags, classifying that as an act of forgery. The bill establishes an entire new chapter of D.C. code governing all aspects of parking enforcement — a complete modernization, streamlining, and strengthening of the law. Councilmember Nadeau noted in her remarks that experience has shown that premeditated reckless driving is often associated with vehicles that have counterfeit tags, making this legislation even more urgent as one of the tools we can employ to make our roads safer for residents and visitors. Under current D.C. Law a vehicle with two parking tickets for overstaying a meter is as deserving of the impound lot as a vehicle with 10 speeding tickets. “If we can’t identify a vehicle, especially when more than 99 percent of our traffic citations are by automated enforcement cameras, then they will never get two unpaid tickets,” Nadeau said. According to the legislation, vehicles would be assigned points for both moving violations and parking violations. A total of 10 points would make a vehicle eligible for towing. It makes more dangerous activities more likely to lead to impoundmen
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