Towing charges for seized vehicles increased by MoI
The Ministry of Interior has increased towing charges for vehicles seized for violations.
The charges have been raised to QR500 for bigger vehicles weighing three tons (when empty) and above, and to QR200 for light vehicles.
The fine for not claiming a seized vehicle is being raised to QR20 per day from QR15. The towing charges, according to the old traffic law (of 2007), were QR200 for larger vehicles (three tons and above) and QR150 for light vehicles (under three tons).
The old traffic law (No. 19 of 2007) was amended and came into force last year. Article 89 of the old law had provisions for towing charges and fines.
The new law (No. 16 of 2015) gave the Ministry of Interior the authority to fix towing charges for seized vehicles. The Department of Traffic works under the Ministry of Interior.
So, the Ministry submitted a proposal to the State Cabinet to raise rates and fines in the form of a draft decision. The Cabinet, at its routine weekly meeting yesterday, approved the Interior Ministry’s draft decision, Qatar News Agency (QNA) reported.
The ministry seizes cars for various reasons, including faulty parking, faulty overtaking, abandoning a car for long in a public place or breaking other provisions of the traffic law.
Such vehicles are towed by the ministry using a special automobile and taken to traffic impound yards of which there are several in the country. According to the 2015 law, a seized car must be claimed by its owner within three months.
The fine for letting the car remain in the traffic police impound yard will now be QR20 per day.
The new law (No. 16 of 2015) also gives the Interior Ministry the right to auction off a seized vehicle if not claimed within three months.
In that eventuality, the ministry deducts from sale proceeds of a seized and unclaimed car its fines and charges. And then it returns the remaining amount to the owner.
However, if the amount received from sale proceeds of an auctioned car is less than fines and charges, the ministry moves the court to recover the remaining amount.
The law stipulates that the owner of a seized car must pay all fines and towing charges and only then will he be allowed to take his vehicle back. [The Peninsula]
That's the strategy to reduce traffic, brit.
"What if the poor worker whose salary is QAR 3000/-...."
This is another strange point.. From daily questions on salary and benefits, and the responses given by QLers, a person earning QAR 3000 can never afford to buy and run a car, let alone go on a three month vacation :O(
A 'sardist' probably could be someone from Sardinia. If you talk about those who enjoy suffering of others then they are 'sadists' named after the French Marquis de Sade. It is unbelievable how much false information is spread daily on Qatar living!
Only dead people go to heaven, brit.
So, let me get this right..
You are wishing bad things upon me , so I can learn from them and go to heaven ....
What happens if these bad things kill me ? Will I still go to heaven
so that you may learn from your mistakes and you may reach heaven than hell.
"I pray...may some big disater happen in your life than you intensify trouble in others lives." - ah yes... spoken like a good pious and religious person
What if the poor worker whose salary is QAR 3000/- left his car which cost only QAR 3500/- left for a 3 month vacation without pay parking his car on the ground near his bed space (he dont have money to rent villa) and return the fourth month only to discover that his
1. Vehicle has been towed,
2. Left rotting in the traffic yard,
3. Rate of QAR 20 per day for 3 months,
4. Fine from baladiya
5. Fine from Traffic department
6. Need to Paint the car as the sun baked existing paint
You tell me his situation...and you need to punish him...but for what.
I pray...may some big disater happen in your life than you intensify trouble in others lives.
Never be callous to human suffering....
Humanity is above law
Khan: If the person has done something wrong, then he/she needs to be punished..
Why not 20000000000000000000000000000000000 for Brit expat.
This person is a sardist...A sadist is someone who enjoys inflicting pain on others
Wonder how the auctions will take place. Online or physical auctioning.
Still not enough. It should be 2000 minimum
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