Penalty Notice/Ticket - Pay or Dispute

Failure to remit payment for the fine or elect to dispute the penalty notice within 15 days of issuance, will result in additional fees being added to the total payable.

*Transaction fees will be added to the total payable

• *Third-party Gtechna fees are $2.00 per transaction
• Effective January 1, 2026: Third-party Paymentus fee of 2.5% for those who wish to pay via credit card (Mastercard or Visa)

Ticket Portal

Please note:

• For fines not paid within 15 days of issuance of the penalty notice $11.00 fee is added to total payable, and;
• For fines not paid within 31 days of issuance of the penalty notice $25.00 administrative fee is added to total payable.

Step 1

The first step to dispute a parking penalty notice (ticket) is by booking a screening with a screening officer at the Town of Lincoln by going to the portal link provided:

• Review the information and disclosure available.
• Select either a written or in-person screening.
• if written screening- enter all necessary information and upload any documents. You will receive an email acknowledgement of your submission, and you will receive notification via email once the screening has been conducted and the determination made. 
• If in-person screening- enter all necessary information and using the calendar select an available date/ time for the in-person screening.
• Alternatively you may attend the Municipal Law Enforcement Department in person at 4317 Central Avenue, Beamsville (the former Beamsville District Secondary School) to be assisted in submitting your screening request.

* Screening Requests must be submitted within 15 days of the date of issuance of the parking ticket.

Step 2

Screening Process

The Screening Officer Will:

• review all information provided by you (the appellant) for consideration (dispute allegation of contravention or provide extenuating circumstance i.e. emergency/hardship).
• review the penalty notice.
• review the evidence of the issuing officer, including notes and photographs.
• review the pertinent by-law and provision.

*Upon completion of the above, the Screening Officer will take all information in its totality into consideration and will render a Determination.

Determination:

• affirm the penalty notice and set fine.
• withdrawn the penalty notice and set fine.
• affirm the penalty notice and amend/vary the set fine and/or provide extension of time to remit payment.

*Once the determination is made, you (the appellant) will receive an email copy of the determination.

Once a determination is rendered in the screening, if the appellant does not agree with the decision, they then have the option to appeal by making a request for a hearing by going to the portal link provided:

• Completing the hearing request providing all necessary information; 
• Visiting the Municipal Law Enforcement Department in person at 4317 Central Avenue, Beamsville (the former Beamsville District Secondary School).

* A person may request a review of a Screening Decision by a Hearing Officer, only after a screening determination has been delivered. The request for Hearing must be made within 15 days of screening determination.

You will receive email correspondence regarding the scheduling of the Hearing.

Hearings are conducted virtually, by a third-party Hearing Officer not affiliated with the Town.

Failure to attend at a scheduled Hearing will result in the Penalty Fee imposed from Screening Determination and Administrative Penalties along with a Failure to appear fee.

On review of a Screening Determination, the Hearing Officer may:

1. Affirm
2. Cancel
3. Vary or extend the time for payment

*Neither a Screening or Hearing Officer has jurisdiction to consider questions relating to the validity of a statute, Regulation or By-law or the constitutional applicability or operability of any statute, Regulation or By-law.

• Failure to remit payment for the fine or elect to dispute the penalty notice within 30 days of issuance, will result in additional fees being added to the total payable. 
• Effective January 1, 2026: Third-party Paymentus fee of 2.5% for those who wish to pay via credit card (Mastercard or Visa)

Ticket Portal

Step One

The first step to dispute a non-parking penalty notice (ticket) is by booking a screening with a screening officer at the Town of Lincoln by going to the portal link provided:

• Review the information and disclosure available.
• Select either a written or in-person screening.
• written screening- enter all necessary information and upload any documents. You will receive an email acknowledgement of your submission, and you will receive notification via email once the screening has been conducted and the determination made. 
• in-person screening- enter all necessary information and using the calendar select an available date/ time for the in-person screening.
• Alternatively you may attend the Municipal Law Enforcement Department in person at 4317 Central Avenue, Beamsville (the former Beamsville District Secondary School) to be assisted in submitting your screening request.

* Screening Requests must be submitted within 30 days of the date of issuance of the parking ticket.

Step 2

Screening Process

The Screening Officer Will:

• review all information provided by you (the appellant) for consideration (dispute allegation of contravention or provide extenuating circumstance i.e. emergency/hardship).
• review the offence notice.
• review the evidence of the issuing officer, including notes and photographs.
• review the pertinent by-law and provision.

*Upon completion of the above, the Screening Officer will take all information in its totality into consideration and will render a Determination.

Determination:

• affirm the penalty notice and set fine.
• withdrawn the penalty notice and set fine.
• affirm the penalty notice and amend/vary the set fine and/or provide extension of time to remit payment.

*Once the determination is made, you (the appellant) will receive an email copy of the determination.

Once a determination is rendered in the screening, if the appellant does not agree with the decision, they then have the option to appeal by making a request for a hearing by going to the portal link provided:

• Completing the hearing request providing all necessary information. 
• Visiting the Municipal Law Enforcement Department in person at 4317 Central Avenue, Beamsville (the former Beamsville District Secondary School).

* A person may request a review of a Screening Decision by a Hearing Officer, only after a screening determination has been delivered. The request for Hearing must be made within 30 days of screening determination.

You will receive email correspondence regarding the scheduling of the Hearing.

Hearings are conducted virtually, by a third-party Hearing Officer not affiliated with the Town.

Failure to attend at a scheduled Hearing will result in the Penalty Fee imposed from Screening Determination and Administrative Penalties along with a Failure to appear fee.

On review of a Screening Determination, the Hearing Officer may:

1. Affirm
2. Cancel
3. Vary or extend the time for payment

*Neither a Screening or Hearing Officer has jurisdiction to consider questions relating to the validity of a statute, Regulation or By-law or the constitutional applicability or operability of any statute, Regulation or By-law.