City Sets New Non-residents' Parking Law

The honeymoon is over for out-of-state students who have been beating the city parking laws for more than a year.

A new ordinance, passed last week by the Cambridge City Council, will enable the city police to nab all violaters of the nickel-every-hour and one-hour-limit rules.

From now on, all drivers who ignore their first meter violation tickets will find that a second offense brings a tow-truck to haul their cars to a garage. Last year, police checked Massachusetts cars at the Registry of Motor Vehicles, and then summoned owners to be fined. However, they had no way of punishing out-of-state violators.

The all-night parking problem will be dealt with in the same way as the meter violations. Cars which are on the streets for more than an hour between 2 and 6 a.m. will be tagged, and men who do not report will find their cars towed away the next time.

The towing will involve two expenses: a $5 towing charge and a storage charge at the garages where the cars are collected.

The ordinances which cover meter violations and all-night parking have been on the statute books for some time; but it was not until the police compained to the Council that action was taken on the problem of "foreign" violators.

The new ordinance will not apply on streets owned by the University. Such locations as the road in front of Eliot and Kirkland Houses will still be under the jurisdiction of University police and will be governed by their rules only.