CLEVELAND, Ohio (WOIO) - One of a handful of new laws going into effect next week in Ohio is a ban on law enforcement citation quotas.

In the past, departments had quotas on how many speeding or parking tickets each officer had to hand out in a given week, or month.

When lawmakers pitched this bill earlier this year their message was that departments shouldn’t be balancing their budgets based on the issuing of tickets to the public.

“I had a relative who it was 10 tickets a day, if they were walking the beat it was a whole book of parking tickets a day and that went on for years,” said State Senator Tom Patton (R-Strongsville) who has several family members serving in law enforcement, including in Cleveland.

The new law takes effect on Sept. 30th.

State Representative Kevin Miller (R-

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