Fees for certain parking violations in Emmaus will increase within the next several weeks.

In the beginning of the year, Emmaus Borough Council agreed to raise fine amounts for specific parking violations based on a study conducted by the Emmaus Police Department last year.

A study was conducted of 30 municipalities, mostly boroughs, which revealed Emmaus was lower in most categories of parking offenses when compared with other municipalities.

As a general rule, several categories of parking offenses will change from $15 to $20. However, parking violations for sweeper parking in the downtown and throughout the Main and Chestnut streets corridor will change from $15 to $25.

In addition, violations in snow removal areas, fire hydrant/zones and leaving uninspected and unregistered vehicles on public streets will be $25. The fine for violations of handicapped parking areas will increase to $50.

Recently, the Emmaus Police Department received the updated parking tickets and will begin issuing the tickets within the next several weeks.

As in the past, the police officials remind the public failure to respond to any parking ticket within 10 days results in a Commonwealth of Pennsylvania citation being filed with the district court.