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The D.C. Department of Motor Vehicles reported today that an amnesty on overdue parking tickets is working, having drawn in a total of $1,902,665 in revenue from 35,357 outstanding tickets since it went into affect in August.

More on the program:

The Ticket Amnesty Program began on August 1. Under the program, all penalties on outstanding tickets issued prior to January 1, 2010 are waived. Among the local jurisdictions, drivers in Maryland have paid the most tickets, 17,387, resulting in $931,024 in revenue for the District. Drivers in the District have paid 9,928 outstanding tickets, resulting in $559,311 in revenue. Also, drivers in Virginia have paid 5,968 tickets, resulting in $302,894 in revenue.

In September, the DMV announced that the amnesty had brought in $976,341 in revenue for the city from 17,950 outstanding tickets.

Still, whatever the District pulls in during the program will still be a drop in the bucket of what’s they’re actually owed. Earlier this year, the city admitted that drivers owed $300 million in overdue fines and tickets. The amnesty is expected to bring in a mere $6 million, which, we suppose, is better than zero. Earlier this summer, the D.C. Council passed legislation that would allow Mayor Vince Gray to centralize collections on the estimated $1 billion in fines and fees owed to a number of city agencies.