If you have six or more unpaid parking tickets in Bloomington, the city can have your car towed away.
It used to be that just four unpaid tickets could get your car towed. But two years ago, in May 2021, Bloomington’s city council approved the administration’s request to bump the number to six.
Enforcement of the six-ticket law will start this year, on June 12, according to a news release from the mayor’s office in the last week of May. Cars that are facing an imminent tow will have green warning stickers placed on them, according to the administration.
In strictly numerical terms, the 2021 code revision was a softening of the law—because the change made it possible to accrue two additional unpaid tickets before facing a risk of towing.
But with the city council’s 2021 ordinance change came a stiffening of the penalty—the unpaid tickets that triggered the towing now have to be paid in order for an owner to get their car back. Continue reading “Pay parking tickets to get towed car back: Enforcement starts for 2-year-old Bloomington law”
