You’re Dead Wrong If You Still Think You Can Turn A Blind Eye To MBPJ Summonses - Here’s Why
ARE you one of those who treat local council summonses with impunity and casually toss them aside? It's time you start settling them because you might find yourselves unable to renew your road tax next time.
Offending car owners who fail to pay outstanding summonses will be barred by the Petaling Jaya City Council (MBPJ) from renewing their road taxes from March next year, a local English daily reported yesterday.
It was reported that the council will submit details of the offenders to the Road Transport Department (JPJ), which will then bar those on the 'blacklist'.
Petaling Jaya mayor Mohd Azizi Mohd Zain was quoted as saying that MBPJ had received approval from JPJ on September.
In order to encourage offenders to settle summonses before the deadline, Azizi said its department will offer a 80% discount on summonses payment until February 29 next year.
According to sources, MBPJ has racked up some 4.1 million unpaid traffic summonses worth some RM100 million at the moment.
As expected, the announcement has drawn ire from most social media users, describing the move as impractical and ridiculous.
Responding to the announcement, an anonymous social media user wrote on a local automotive news portal comment section: “The MBPJ should clean up their dirty organisation instead of coming out with all this barring road tax nonsense. You all are so dirty and filthy, instead of cleaning your filthy house, you got time to do saman and bar road tax renewal…”
Meanwhile, social media user, Henry questioned: “Under which law? Who is MBPJ to instruct JPJ to refuse road tax renewal for offenders?”
Another netizen, UPM chose to respond sarcastically to the move, in which the netizen wrote: “Malaysia should be the only country in the world who offers discount to encourage people to pay summons…”
However, some traffic users were in favour for the move, saying this would help stop road users from parking illegally at roadside which causes inconvenience to others.
“I support this, as this can deter people from parking at the roadside, making a two-lane road into single lane, causing traffic jams. Unless for special occasion like Friday prayers and Sunday church goers,” Ben Yap commented.
-mD
