Speaking up on enforcement, especially in areas where there are ample legal car park such as Subang Parade/Empire area of SS16 as well as Taipan, with its multi-storey car park. Illegal car park contributes to congestion, which affects and annoys everyone.

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Council told to issue more summonses

Published: Fri, 31 Aug 2012
SUBANG JAYA: The increase in illegally parked cars around commercial areas has raised concern among some councillors who were worried that enforcement officers were not monitoring the hotspots enough.
“There are so many cases of double parking especially at Taipan and SS15, causing traffic congestion and I see fewer officers around issuing summonses,” said Subang Jaya municipal councillor (MPSJ) R Rajiv.
He said this during the council’s full board meeting and hopes MPSJ enforcement officers will patrol the areas more.
Currently, MPSJ has implemented a few methods like issuing fines, clamping, towing and the use of locks summon (kunci saman).
The “kunci saman”, which has been implemented since December 2009, involves a yellow tag which will be attached to the side mirrors of illegally parked vehicles.
Motorists who want the tags removed will have to settle the fine of RM80 before having the yellow lock removed by enforcement officers.
However, the number of yellow tags returned seems to be decreasing since 2010 and MPSJ currently does not have enough stock to issue anymore lock summons.
MPSJ has tried re-collecting the lock summons by issuing hundreds of notices, reminding motorists to pay up their summonses and return the yellow tags.
So far, only 75 per cent have paid up and returned the yellow tags while 400 others were found to have vandalised the lock.
“These 400 cases are pending court case and if brought to court, they will be fined a maximum of RM2,000 and possibly face a six-month fail sentence,” said MPSJ legal adviser Anita Abd Jalil.
She added that MPSJ has ordered more lock summonses and they will start implementing this at Bandar Puteri’s commercial area next year.
“For now, we will resort to clamping and summonses. But I hope the court will put the vandals in jail for one week or even for just a day to teach them a lesson,” said MPSJ president Datuk Asmawi Kasbi.
He hopes this move will deter any future errant motorists from destroying the yellow tags or any council property.

 Selangor Times