The cost of residential parking permits is also going up — especially if you’ve got more than one vehicle.

When the D.C. Library announced a two-month-long amnesty on fines for overdue books, the idea was to encourage patrons to return materials that they had long-ago checked out but never returned. The program, which ended earlier this month, was a more rousing success than anyone could have predicted.

A day short of the end of an amnesty program under which drivers with two-year-old tickets can pay up without the usual penalties, Virginia and Maryland drivers remain in arrears to the District for hundreds of millions of dollars.

Before the D.C. Council gets things together and creates a souped-up debt collection agency, it may behoove those of you that have unpaid and overdue parking tickets or other driving-related fines to pay them before the end of January.

Hey, if the Office of Tax and Revenue and the Department of Motor Vehicles can do it, why can’t the D.C. Public Library? The city’s bookmasters announced this morning that — beginning December 5 and through February 5 — they’ll be launching their own amnesty program, forgiving fines on overdue, lost or damaged books, CDs, DVDs, and other materials.

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.

The D.C. DMV announced today that in the first month of its ticket amnesty program, deadbeat drivers paid 17,950 outstanding tickets worth $976,341 in revenue for the city.

Originally, the District’s Department of Motor Vehicles — currently offering amnesty from late fees to those with long-outstanding tickets — was going to stop honoring requests from residents curious about whether they had tickets that would qualify for amnesty today. But the agency has announced that, given the success of the program so far, they’ll extend the free research service through September 9.

If you’re the holder of one (or several) of the thousands of unpaid parking tickets issued by the District of Columbia before January 1, 2010, you can pay it (or them) without any late fees starting today.

Drivers owe the District of Columbia over $245 million in unpaid parking tickets. The city would really like to get some of that money back, naturally. So beginning August 1, the city’s Department of Motor Vehicles will be suspending penalties on outstanding tickets to encourage people to pay up.