You may escape a ticket!

Chris-CJ

Chris-CJ

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Camera tickets older than 23 days will not be mailed out, so depending on the length of the Canada Post strike, you may escape a fine.
The province allows tickets to be issued up to 23 days after the date of offence.
As a result, when the postal strike ends, the City will mail out all violations that were captured in the previous 23 days.
Any violations that were captured prior to that and passed the 23-day allowance won’t be issued,
 
POWERMAN said:
Who said this?
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HTA. Speed cameras are "administrative penalties" and not a normal HTA infraction. That allows them to bypass many of the checks and balances (like court). The tickets must be mailed within 23 days and are assumed to be served 7 days later. The law doesn't appear to make an exception for a strike. It looks like municipalities could dump truckloads of tickets off at CP and they would be valid as long as they were 23 days or less since the infraction when they arrive at CP.

The law allows for mail or courier. Big tickets could be couriered to avoid pushback from offenders. If CP isn't accepting mail, is there an opportunity for an end-run? Spin up "Ticket Express Couriers" to deliver municipal camera tickets. Charge just over CP rates. TOS includes that you will be using the CP system for delivery. Municipality says under oath that they delivered to a courier within the time required by law. If the courier crapped the bed, that's not their problem. TEC needs to cover the pickup, warehouse space until the strike is over and dropoff at CP.

e-Laws | Ontario.ca

www.ontario.ca www.ontario.ca

"Time limit on imposition of administrative penalty

8. The time period prescribed for the purpose of subsection 21.1 (5) of the Act is the period that ends 23 days after the day on which the contravention occurred."
 
sburns said:
What did you do??!! :LOL:
Also that a very expensive delivery person
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My daughter parked on the street and the meter expired. She already paid the fine and they still delivered the notice. Tax dollars at work right there :mad:. I think the fine was under $30.00 and they paid a person to drive to and from my home to put the mail in the letterbox.

No signature required so there is absolute deniability that the mail was received. We have community mail boxes so the only thing delivered to the letterbox is ad mail. We have no reason to believe that any legitimate mail is being delivered to the home nor any reason to check. The only reason we did is that the dogs were barking and we checked to see why and noticed someone in uniform.
 
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The cities all hungry for revenue lol.

So what will you do now, @JZ67? Will the system automatically update as payment completed or will you have to waste time in person to sort this out at their office/court?
 
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