City of Milwaukee - File #: 080753

• File #: 080753
• Version: 0
• Type: Resolution
• Status: Passed
• File created: 9/16/2008
• In control: JUDICIARY & LEGISLATION COMMITTEE
• Final action: 10/7/2008
• Title: Resolution directing the Intergovernmental Relations Division - Department of Administration to seek introduction of state legislation to allow for the towing/booting and impounding of vehicles for unpaid parking citations and refusal to release the vehicles until all outstanding citations are paid or adjudicated.
• Sponsors: ALD. BOHL, ALD. WITKOWSKI, ALD. DONOVAN
• Indexes: FINES AND PENALTIES, INTERGOVERNMENTAL RELATIONS DIVISION, MOTOR VEHICLES, STATE LEGISLATION, TOWING OF VEHICLES

Date	Ver.	Action By	Action	Result	Tally
10/9/2008	0	MAYOR	SIGNED
10/7/2008	0	COMMON COUNCIL	ADOPTED	Pass	14:0
9/29/2008	0	JUDICIARY & LEGISLATION COMMITTEE	RECOMMENDED FOR ADOPTION	Pass	5:0
9/23/2008	0	JUDICIARY & LEGISLATION COMMITTEE	HEARING NOTICES SENT
9/18/2008	0	CITY CLERK	Sponsor added; Minutes note: Ald. Donovan added as sponsor on 9/18/08 - LME
9/17/2008	0	CITY CLERK	Sponsor added; Minutes note: Ald. Witkowski added as a sponsor on 9/17/08 - LME
9/16/2008	0	COMMON COUNCIL	ASSIGNED TO

Number
080753
Version
ORIGINAL
Reference
051150
Sponsor
ALD. BOHL, WITKOWSKI and DONOVAN
Title
Resolution directing the Intergovernmental Relations Division - Department of Administration to seek introduction of state legislation to allow for the towing/booting and impounding of vehicles for unpaid parking citations and refusal to release the vehicles until all outstanding citations are paid or adjudicated.
Analysis
This resolution directs the Intergovernmental Relations Division - Department of Administration to seek introduction of state legislation to allow for the towing/booting and impounding of vehicles for unpaid parking citations and refusal to release the vehicles until all outstanding citations are paid or adjudicated. This language is permissive whereby a city may tow or boot a legally parked or illegally parked vehicle for unpaid parking citations and hold the vehicle until citations are paid.
Body

Whereas, The City of Milwaukee’s Outstanding Debt Task Force was created by Common Council File Number 041446 on April 12, 2005, to evaluate and make recommendations relating to procedures for collecting delinquent taxes, forfeitures, judgments and fees owed to the City of Milwaukee; and

Whereas, The City of Milwaukee’s Outstanding Debt Task Force submitted its final report and recommendations to the Common Council on December 13, 2005; and

Whereas, The Outstanding Debt Force’s final report’s recommendations included directing the Intergovernmental Relations Division- Department of Administration to seek passage of state legislation to allow for the towing/booting and impounding of vehicles for unpaid parking citations and refusal to release the vehicles until all outstanding citations are paid or adjudicated; and

Whereas, On January 18, 2006, the Common Council adopted Common Council File Number 051150, a resolution that directed the Intergovernmental Relations Division- Department of Administration to seek passage of state legislation to ...