Parking penalties: community service.

Existing law authorizes a processing agency that processes unpaid parking penalties to proceed under specified options to collect those penalties, including filing an itemization of unpaid penalties with the Department of Motor Vehicles for the department to collect the penalties along with the registration of the vehicle. Existing law prohibits a processing agency from filing that itemization unless, among other things, the processing agency provides a payment plan option for indigent persons that meets specified requirements. Existing law allows a person convicted of an infraction, upon showing that payment of the total fine would pose a hardship on the person or the person's family, to elect to perform community service in lieu of the total fine that would otherwise be imposed. This bill would additionally prohibit, beginning July 1, 2020, a processing agency from filing an itemization of unpaid parking penalties with the department unless the processing agency provides a community service option for eligible homeless persons that allows them to pay off unpaid parking penalties by performing community service, as specified, including by seeking or obtaining support services. The bill would require information regarding the community service option to be placed on the notice of parking violation and the processing agency's internet website. The bill would also require a processing agency to rescind the filing of an itemization of unpaid parking penalties for a homeless person, for one time only, if the registered owner or lessee of the vehicle enrolls in a community service option and pays a late fee.