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Author: City of Ottawa - Media Relations / Ville d'Ottawa - Relations avec les médias
Publication Date: May 26, 2025 - 14:02
City’s new Administrative Penalty System coming soon
May 26, 2025
Starting June 2025, the City will start to manage and adjudicate parking ticket infractions through its Administrative Penalty System (APS), transitioning from the existing Provincial Offensive Act (POA) courts. The City’s new APS program will next extend to red light camera and automated speed enforcement infractions.
The Province of Ontario amended the Municipal Act in 2007 and the Highway Traffic Act in 2022, allowing municipalities to adjudicate parking and camera-based penalties under the Administrative Penalty System (APS) program. This provides an opportunity to have parking, automated speed enforcement and red-light camera infraction matters reviewed outside of the Provincial Offences Act (POA) court-based system, helping to alleviate the court’s current backlog.
Through the APS, the City of Ottawa may now adjust staffing levels to have these matters reviewed based on demand, improving the overall experience through a more efficient and streamlined resolution process.
How the new system works
If a person receives a parking ticket after the transition to APS, they have two options:
Pay the ticket
The person can pay their ticket:
- Online
- In-person at any Client Service Centre or the POA and APS Service Centre
- By mail
- Online
- In person at any City Client Service Centre or the POA and APS Service Centre
- They are experiencing undue hardship, or
- They did not commit the offence.
- Online
- In person at any City Client Service Centre or the POA and APS Service Centre.
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