Citations and Sanctions
- Citations
- Group A - $0
- Warning
- Group B - $25.00
- Blocking dumpster or another vehicle
- Parking in violation of snow removal policy
- Driving the wrong way on a one-way street
- Failure to stop at a stop sign, for security attendant or pedestrian in a crosswalk
- Parking or driving on sidewalk or grounds
- Unlicensed individual or unregistered motor vehicle
- Group C - $50.00
- Not parked in a lined space
- Exceeding time limit
- Unauthorized overnight parking
- Impeding emergency vehicles
- Parking or driving on a sidewalk
- Speeding
- Damaging a parking violation
- Failure to stop for a Police Officer
- Using fictitious, falsely made, or altered University permit
- Removing a barricade or crossing a barricaded area
- Group D - $75.00
- No permit or wrong permit
- Parking in restricted area without proper permit
- Group E - $100.00
- Altered University permit
- Obstructing fire lane or crosswalk
- Transferred permit or falsification of vehicle information
- Using fictitious, falsely made, or altered University permit
- Removing a barricade or crossing a barricaded area
- Group F - $125.00
- Parked in an accessible parking space
- Vehicle Towing
- An illegally parked vehicle is subject to tow at the owner’s expense and fees are set by the state.
- Occasionally, a vehicle may be relocated via towing, without warning to vehicle owner, for unforeseen traffic control reasons. Such a tow would be at the expense of BC.
- Sanctions
- Payment of fines is required within 14 calendardays of violation date unless a formal appeal is submitted and received through our online appeal system within14 calendar days of violation date.Please wait two business days before paying or appealing a citation online.
- Employee citation payment may be made through our online payment system or by personal check written to “Ϲ College” and mailed to Transportation and Parking, Ϲ College, 140 Commonwealth Ave., Chestnut Hill, MA 02467.Please wait two business days before paying or appealing a citation online.
- Student citation payment is automated via billing to their student account.
- Fines not paid within 60 days may result in towing at the expense of the vehicle owner.
- Vehicles towed will not be allowed back onto Ϲ College properties until the fines have been paid.
- Permits will not be granted or renewed if outstanding unpaid citations are on record.
- Permits may be revoked or suspended for committing multiple Group C offenses.
- Permits may be revoked if a person accrues 3 or more separate warnings and/or citations within 30 calendar days.
- Administrative Action
Ϲ College employees and students who are offenders of the following may be referred for administrative action up to and including dismissal:
- Repeat offenders
- Revoked permit status
- Offenders in excess of 3 or more unpaid citations
- Group C offenders
- Improper use or use without permission of Ϲ College vehicles and equipment
- Using Ϲ College owned or leased equipment not allowed by Massachusetts General Laws on roadways/sidewalks and grounds off campus
- Group A and B offenders using Ϲ College vehicles and equipment