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BY MAE SINGUAY
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Friday, April 7, 2017
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BACOLOD City – City hall had been raking in fines since strictly enforcing ordinances against jaywalking and motorcycle riders without helmets.
Collections of the City Treasurer’s Office already reached around P230,000 — and counting.
City Ordinance (CO) No. 466, as amended by CO No. 535, requires motorcycle riders to wear helmets. CO No. 338, meanwhile, penalizes jaywalking, aside from regulating public utility jeepney routes and parking areas.
The city collected P51,800 from jaywalkers within just two days (April 3 and 4) and P178,100 from motorcycle riders caught without helmets during a 10-day operation (since March 27), said Superintendent Luisito Acebuche, Bacolod Traffic Authority Office (BTAO) officer-in-charge.
Fines are paid with the City Treasurer’s Office.
Some 1,132 were so far caught violating CO No. 466 and 518 for violating CO No. 338, records from BTAO showed.
Acebuche hopes the number of arrests will reduce.
The ordinances exempt no one, Acebuche stressed. Some motorcycle riders caught not wearing helmets were police officers, while minors were among those caught jaywalking, the BTAO head noted.
Jaywalking minors are taken to the Social Development Center — they are not allowed to do community service — and released only when their parents claim them, said Acebuche./PN a
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