Court suspends decision raising parking fees in Yerevan

ArmInfo. The court suspended the decision to increase parking fees in Yerevan on red and blue dotted lines. This was reported on a social network by Armenak Danielyan, a  member of the Mother Armenia faction of the Yerevan Council of  Elders. Currently, parking fees are being collected in violation of  the law, legal experts insist. 

He noted that the Administrative Court of the Republic of Armenia, by  a collegial decision of 5 judges, satisfied the application of the  Mother Armenia faction of the Yerevan Council of Elders against the  decision of the Yerevan Council of Elders dated 24.12.2024 No. 265-N,  which established local payment rates in the Yerevan community for  2025. , the council member wrote and congratulated the drivers using  the above-mentioned parking lots.

At the same time, Danielyan explained that since the decision adopted  for 2025 was recognized by the court as illegal, until the Yerevan  City Council adopts a new decision on parking fees, drivers can park  their cars in zones A and B for FREE.

In turn, lawyer Vahe Grigoryan reported on the social network that  court decisions on recognizing the increase in prices as  invalid come into force from the moment of publication, and the  normative legal act recognized as invalid has lost its legal force  from the moment of the official publication of the judicial act of  the administrative court on recognizing it (the increase in prices)  as invalid.  

Currently, charging for parking is carried out in violation of the  law and is essentially a failure to comply with a court order, an  illegal act for which citizens cannot be held liable>, he summarized.

From January 1, 2024, citizens pay 160 thousand drams (about $ 400)  per year for parking on the "red lines" in the center of the capital  (in zone "A" of Yerevan). The fee for parking in zone "B" is 24  thousand drams per year. Before that, the fee, regardless of  location, was 12 thousand drams.

On December 19, 2024, the Administrative Court invalidated the  provisions of the Council of Elders' decision on parking fees on red  lines. At the same time, the court rejected the claim for  invalidation from the moment the decision came into force, after  which the Yerevan Municipality filed a complaint.  In its decision of  May 23, the court recorded that the municipality did not prove that  the sharp increase in the tariff was aimed at improving the quality  of services, and did not recognize the argument about unloading the  streets as legal.

, the mayor's press secretary Hayk Kostanyan reported  on social networks on May 24.