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Dear Ms. Marcotte:

This office is in receipt of your request for an attorney general opinion and the request has been assigned to me for research and reply. Your request raises two issues with respect to the issuance of tickets to faculty and staff at Nicholls, principally, (1) can the new procedure adopted by the university for the collection of fines be applied retroactively to parking tickets received before the procedure was adopted, and (2) can the university withhold payment from the faculty or staff member's paycheck for nonpayment of parking fines without first obtaining a judicial…