Tickets & Appeals

Payment of Parking Tickets

• Ticketing hours are 7AM to 5PM Monday through Friday.
• You can pay for your parking ticket online via your PermitExpress account by selecting “Pay Citations” from the home page or at Old Main Market in the University Center.
• Payments may be made with card or student account.
• Most, not all, tickets paid within 1 day of issuance are eligible for a 50% reduction of fine. See “PLU Tickets” below to see ticket types and which tickets do not get first time warnings or are non-reducible.
• Payment after one business day but less than 14 business days results in the original fine being charged.
• After 14 business days, payment or billing of parking ticket fines will have a $10.00 administrative fee included.
• Students: Unpaid fines will be assessed to student accounts after 30 days.
• Employees: Unpaid fines will be directed to Payroll for payroll deduction after 30 days.
• Unregistered vehicles parked in university parking lots with unresolved fines are subject to tow.

Appealing Parking Tickets

You have the right to appeal a PLU parking ticket. The appeals form is also found within your PermitExpress account.

• Appeal requests must be completed within 14 days of the ticket issue date.
• Failure to appeal within the allotted time results in loss of the right to appeal.
• Tickets that are submitted for appeal are not eligible for the next business day 50% off reduction.
• Appeals with be cancelled out or unavailable once the ticket is paid.
• If your ticket is downgraded or your appeal is rejected and you do not pay the ticket by the date given, it will be billed to your student account for the original price of the ticket plus a $10 admin fee.
• Student tickets and Employee tickets will not be voided out at the Campus Safety office. You will need to submit an Appeal request. Your request will then be up for review.

The appeal review process has been altered to reach decisions in a more timely manner. The procedure when an appeal is submitted is as follows:

• The appeals will be reviewed by the Campus Safety (CSAF) Administrative Officer (AO) to ensure the appeal was received within 14 days of the issued citation and check the citation history.
• The CSAF Director will look at the appeal and adhere to the current Parking Regulations and a set rubric on acceptable appeals. A response decision will be available in the PermitExpress Parking Portal along with an email, once an appeal decision has been made. The email used will be the email address given during the registration process.
• Those dissatisfied with the decision of the appeal can request a meeting with the CSAF Director. A meeting can be requested in person or via email no later than 14-days of the original appeal decision.
• Special circumstances will be reviewed by the Director, Assistant Director and Administrative Officer of Campus Safety once per month.

For more information about parking appeals, please email parking@plu.edu

Ticketing hours are 7AM to 5PM.

The registered owner or associated student/staff member is responsible for any tickets issued to a vehicle, regardless of who was operating the vehicle when the violation occurred.

Campus Safety does not write tickets for violations on streets within the perimeter of the University. Tickets received by Washington State police officers cannot be appealed at PLU through Campus Safety. All inquiries must be directed to Pierce County District Court as explained on the back of the infraction. The RCW’s (Revised Code of Washington) pertaining to parking on county roads can be found here: 46.61.560 – 46.61.590. Parking regulations enacted by Pierce County through the Pierce County Code can be found here: PCC Title 10. It is the responsibility of the driver to be familiar with state and city traffic laws.

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