Lots of people get caught speeding, and some refuse to pay the tickets.
See: 22 drivers ticketed for speeding on Airport Road
So the Province is tightening the screws on those scofflaws by giving municipalities the power to deny them licence plates when it's time to renew. Careless driving will also be included.
The change will come into effect in May.
Currently, you can be denied plates for offences like parking tickets and running red lights.
Transportation Minister Steven Del Duca says municipalities in the province are owed a collective $1.4 billion in unpaid fines for provincial offences. That's why the Association of Municipalities of Ontario has been asking for more tools to collect the fines.
The government is making the policy retroactive seven years.
People with unpaid speeding tickets are already subject to licence suspension.
The change comes under the Making Ontario’s Roads Safer Act, passed in 2015.
It will not apply to jointly owned vehicles or those registered to a company.
