Responding to a Parking Citation

A Metro parking citation is written for the violation of a Metro Parking Ordinance and may be written by six different enforcement agencies in Davidson County. These enforcement agencies are as follows:

Metropolitan Police Department
Park Police
Airport Authority
Public Works Traffic Enforcement
Vanderbilt Police
Metro Property Guards

To view a sample Metro parking citation, click here.

How To Satisfy Your Metro Parking Citation

All Metro parking citations contain an Issuance Date, which is the date that the citation was written. Violators are given forty-five (45) calendar days from this date to pay their citations or thirty (30) calendar days to plead not guilty and request a court date.

The citation must be satisfied by this “Compliance Date” in order to avoid the imposition of additional fees and referral to the Traffic Warrant Division for collection by parking warrant, wage garnishment or levy of property. For instructions on calculating your compliance date, click here.

In order to satisfy a parking citation, the offender must take one of the following two possible actions:

Plead guilty and pay a fine;

Plead not guilty and request a court hearing date.

For instructions, click on the action you would like to take.