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by Mark Berenson Thresher Editorial Staff Students with more than three tickets or warnings in a calendar year are now subject to having their cars booted. University Police Sgt. Steve Reiter said the booting is at the officer's discretion and would be given as a consequence of excessive parking citations, regardless of whether tickets have been paid. Reiter said that if a student's car gets booted, a sticker will be placed on the vehicle telling the car's owner not to move it and instructing him to go to the University Police station. There, the student's account will be settled and either a police or security officer will immediately remove the boot. A $75 ticket will be written for all cars that are booted. Reiter said even if a car is not booted an officer may write a boot ticket, which would also have a $75 fee. "One of the things we can do is even if we don't have a boot in our possession, we can still write you a boot ticket," Reiter said. The police department has about five boots. Reiter emphasized that booting was being done only to encourage compliance. "We are not doing this to generate revenue, we are doing this to start getting compliance," Reiter said. "If we could get where we didn't have to write a single ticket, that is what we want to do." So far, two cars have been booted, but Reiter said the cars both belonged to people who had parked in a Rice lot and then gone to work at the Texas Medical Center. Reiter said it was possible for cars with more than 10 violations in a calendar year to get towed from campus. However, before that happens, Reiter said a warning letter would be sent to the student advising him that the vehicle was not welcome on campus and that if it reappeared it was subject to be towed immediately. The department also has been giving out warning tickets to educate students. Reiter added that tickets were written if warning tickets were disregarded or if the car belonged to an upperclassmen whom the officer thought was trying to take advantage of the parking rules.
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