Parking Citations

Payment Options:

• Mail check, money order or cashier’s check made payable to Director of Finance to Howard County Maryland, Department of Finance, Parking Violations, PO Box 2748, Ellicott City, MD 21041.
  
  
• For a fee, citations can be paid on line (click here) by credit card (VISA, Master Card, American Express, or Discover). Use jurisdiction code 3001.
  
  
• For a fee, citations can be paid over the telephone using a credit card (VISA, Master Card, American Express, or Discover) by calling 1-800-272-9829. Use jurisdiction code 3001.
  
  
• In person at the Department of Finance, Cashier’s Office, 1st Floor, 8930 Stanford Blvd, Columbia, MD. Payments in person can be made by cash, check, money order, or Discover credit card.
  
  
• An after hours drop box is located at the 8930 Stanford Blvd to the left inside the vestibule door. Payments deposited after 8:30 a.m. will not be collected until the next business day.

Include citation number or tag number with payment.

If your tag has been flagged from Department of Motor Vehicles, and you require a VR119 release, personal checks will not be accepted for payment of parking citations.

For additional information regarding parking citations, call the Department of Finance - Parking Violations at 410-313-2446. Please have tag number or citation number available when calling.