Students were under the impression parking citations cannot be issued between 5 p.m. and 7 a.m.

But now tickets are being issued 24-hours according to law.

Jordan Moss, a senior pre-pharmacy major, noticed that she was issued a parking ticket for zone violation around 5 p.m. last week.

Just like most students, Moss was confused because she thought that tickets could not be issued after 5 p.m.

“I’d understand if it were before 5 p.m., and I were taking a spot of a faculty member, but I paid $100 for a sticker just like the rest of the students,” Moss said.

The former UPD Parking Manager had a policy in effect that said parking tickets could not be issued between 5 p.m. and 7 a.m.  This policy, however, went against the law.

Johnathon Emmons, the current parking ticket manager said that as long as he is in charge, the law would be enforced.

Based off of this policy, parking tickets can and will be issued after 5 p.m. for those that break violation when parking in residential and reserved spots.

Emmons said that UPD began enforcing this after receiving many complaints from residential halls.

Students that live on campus were not able to park because the parking lots were filled with commuter cars.

The ULM Parking Committee decided to increase the cost of parking tickets by $50 in the fall of 2012.

Steven Mahon, officer In charge, said that this was not meant to penalize or increase revenue. The goal of this was to make people aware of their actions.

Parking tickets seem to be more abundant on campus than ever  before, especially now that  parking tickets are now issued at all hours of the day. However, Mahon said statistics show the number of parking tickets has decreased.

In the spring of 2012, 7,875 tickets were issued. In the fall of 2012, 3, 806 tickets were issued.

The number of tickets issued dropped by more than 4,000 tickets.