Owe A D.C. Parking Ticket? The Mayor Has a Deal for You

Are you hiding a D.C. parking ticket? Trying to forget about it?

D.C. Mayor Vincent Gray has a deal for you. The city is offering a temporary ticket amnesty program to allow customers to pay older outstanding tickets without having to pay the penalty that would otherwise have been assessed on the ticket.

The program began Monday. You have until Jan. 27, 2012, to pay the ticket. All open parking tickets, citations for moving violations and photo-enforcement tickets issued before Jan. 1, 2010, qualify under the amnesty program.

The District has 4 million outstanding tickets eligible under the amnesty program totaling $245.7 million. Of this amount, the District expects to collect about $6.3 million during the six-month amnesty. Among the local jurisdictions, drivers in Maryland owe the most to the District in unpaid tickets.

Customers can pay their amnesty tickets online at www.dmv.dc.gov, over the phone (866-893-5023) or in person at DMV Adjudication Services, located at 301 C St. NW, Monday through Friday from 8:15 a.m. until 4 p.m. (You don't want to go there. Hard to park.)

Here are the rules. Under the program:

• Hearings cannot be requested on amnesty tickets.
• Amnesty tickets are eligible for a ticket-payment plan.
• Payments on tickets made prior to Aug. 1, 2011 are not eligible for a refund.
• No points will be assessed on moving-violation tickets paid.

For more information about the program, visit http://dmv.dc.gov or send an email to DMVTicketAmnesty@dc.gov.