The capital city of Podgorica has asked the Constitutional Court to halt the procedure for assessing the constitutionality and legality of the solution that uses vehicle blocking devices, so-called claws, in city parking lots and set a deadline for it to eliminate the observed irregularities, the court announced.
"The Constitutional Court has received three initiatives to initiate proceedings to assess the constitutionality and legality of the Decision on Public Parking Lots in the Capital City, which challenge the decision regulating the installation of a device that prevents vehicles from being driven away, or the so-called claw. The initiatives were submitted by individuals, two of which were received by the Constitutional Court in September, and one yesterday, on November 11. The initiatives received in September were submitted for response to the author of the act," the statement reads.
Two days ago, the Committee for the Statute and Regulations of the Capital City Assembly submitted a response to the allegations contained in the initiatives to the Constitutional Court.
"The statement of the Committee for Statute and Regulations states that the possible repeal of the disputed provisions would potentially lead to a systemic impossibility of carrying out the processes regulated by this regulation, so it was requested that the Constitutional Court halt the procedure and set a deadline within which the Capital City Assembly will eliminate the observed shortcomings of the aforementioned municipal regulation," it added.
The Constitutional Court announced that, for reasons of procedural economy, they have united all initiatives in order to conduct a single procedure and decision-making.
The disputed Article 28 of the decision on public parking lots in the territory of Podgorica, from December 2019, stipulates that the Parking Service is authorized, in the event of at least three unpaid parking tickets or the inability to identify the vehicle owner, to detain a parked vehicle by installing a device that prevents the vehicle from being driven away, the court reminds.
They said that the public will be informed in a timely manner about the further course of the procedure.
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