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Parking fines will cost more in the city of Coon Rapids.

The Coon Rapids City Council has approved a resolution increasing the parking fine payable to the city from $20 to $25.

According to City Attorney Stoney Hiljus, the council adopted an ordinance in 1994 requiring that payments for parking violations go directly to the city.

“To reduce the need for criminal justice system sanctions, particularly as the year’s winter parking ban regulations took effect, it was determined to be more efficient for the city to accommodate the payment of fines directly to the city prior to the necessity of the criminal justice process to enforce the regulations,” Hiljus wrote in a report to the council.

The ordinance does not apply to those parking violations covered under state law, he said.

The $20 fine has been in effect since the parking fine ordinance was adopted in 1994 and it does not cover the cost of administering parking enforcement, Hiljus said.

The $5 increase to $25 is still less than the court charges for handling parking fines, he said.

The new $25 fine will go into effect April 1.

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