Hafnarfjörður establishes a car park fund
The Municipality of Hafnarfjörður has established a parking fund to tackle parking violations in the town. The council is advertising for a parking warden.
Hafnarfjörður is advertising for a position.
Are you cut out to be a parking warden? The Municipality of Hafnarfjörður has established a parking fund to tackle illegal parking in the town. The council is advertising for a parking warden.
- The role of the parking warden is to find cars that are illegally parked and to ensure that cars parked for long periods, even for days on end in the city centre, are moved.
- Also to trace unregistered vehicles on the town's land and to pass information about them on to the relevant authorities.
It is worth bearing in mind that a charge is not being introduced for the town's car parks. This is just to ensure safety and that cars are not parked where they are not supposed to be.
Will he be fined?
To begin with, warning notices will be placed on the windows of illegally parked cars, to get us used to these changes and to give an opportunity to correct our behaviour. In time, once we have gained the necessary experience, fines will be introduced.
The service is for the benefit of the town's residents and follows in the footsteps of the municipalities of Kópavogur and Seltjarnarnes, which operate parking funds solely to enforce parking offences.
Among the duties of a warden is ensuring that buses, lorries, heavy machinery and similar vehicles are not parked on the town's streets unattended. This can create a hazard, as well as taking up parking spaces that could otherwise be used by local residents.