Motorists can be taken to court for failing to pay traffic summonses

Serious offence: MBPJ enforcement officer Nor Fitri Ramli issues a compound for a motorist who parked in a non-designated parking bay in the Section 52 commercial area. — filepic

STARTING from June, motorists will have to take Petaling Jaya City Council’s (MBPJ) traffic regulations seriously or risk being blacklisted or even face legal action.

In a move to check errant motorists, MBPJ has applied to the Transport Ministry to empower it to issue summonses for traffic offences.

In mid-August last year, MBPJ made its third application to the Road Transport Department (JPJ) to give it wider traffic powers and traffic warden status for its current batch of 50 officers, who had been managing traffic.

JPJ approved the application early this year. 

MBPJ to blacklist errant traffic offenders when it links up with JPJ

PETALING Jaya City Council (MBPJ) will soon link its system to the Road Transport Department (JPJ) , which will enable the council to blacklist vehicles with outstanding summons. With the link established, those with unpaid compounds issued by MBPJ for traffic and parking offences will not be able to renew their road tax.

Petaling Jaya mayor Datuk Mohamad Roslan Sakiman said the council had in mid-August reapplied for traffic warden status from the Transport Ministry and the JPJ, which would allow MBPJ to blacklist vehicles with outstanding summonses.

“We will be discussing the issue with JPJ soon and once we have the measures in place, those with outstanding summons will be forced to settle their dues in order to renew their road tax,” Roslan told StarMetro.

Currently, offenders need only settle summonses that are issued by the traffic police or JPJ for offences that include using handphones while driving, speeding, running the red light at traffic junction and driving with an expired road tax, before they can renew their road tax.  Read more ........