Parking penalties.

Existing law authorizes an agency that processes unpaid parking penalties and related service fees to collect those penalties and fees pursuant to one of specified options. Under one option, a processing agency is authorized to file 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 requires a processing agency that uses this option to offer an indigent person a payment plan for them to pay unpaid parking penalties and related service fees in monthly installments of no more than $25 per month for total amounts due that are $300 or less, and requires this option to include a waiver of all late fees and penalty assessments if the indigent person enrolls in the payment plan. This bill would exclude the amount of those late fees and penalty assessments waived pursuant to that process from being counted in determining the indigent person's eligibility for the payment plan. This bill would declare that it is to take effect immediately as an urgency statute.