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<p>HARRISBURG &#8212; Pennsylvania Turnpike officials say their inability to sufficiently punish toll violators helped contribute to the more than $33 million in outstanding and uncollected tolls.</p><p><a href="http://cbsloc.al/20p3USl" target="_blank">KDKA-TV reports</a> that 70 percent of the roughly 1.5 million violators eventually pay the fees.</p><p>While other states can invalidate a vehicle&#8217;s registration, fine violators, and even jail them, Commission Chairman Sean Logan says Pennsylvania violators are simply billed for a toll from the furthest point, plus a $25 dollar processing fee. If they receive no response after the first or second notice, the case is then handed to a collections agency, which is prohibited from reporting non-payments to credit bureaus.</p><p>Logan says the number of uncollected tolls will increase significantly if the turnpike continues to toll electronically without the ability to enforce the fees.</p><style>
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<div class="neCaption">A vehicle drives under signs on Rt. 903 for the new interchange of Northeast Extension of the Pennsylvania Turnpike in Penn Forest Township in Carbon County. Pennsylvania Turnpike officials say their inability to sufficiently punish toll violators helped contribute to the more than $33 million in outstanding and uncollected tolls. </div></div><div class="metaInfo"><photo0>https://www.timesleader.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/11/web1_turnpike01.jpg</photo0><caption0>A vehicle drives under signs on Rt. 903 for the new interchange of Northeast Extension of the Pennsylvania Turnpike in Penn Forest Township in Carbon County. Pennsylvania Turnpike officials say their inability to sufficiently punish toll violators helped contribute to the more than $33 million in outstanding and uncollected tolls. </caption0><photoCredit0>Pete G. Wilcox | Times Leader </photoCredit0></div></div>
<div class="metaInfo"><bylineMeta><p>By The Associated Press</p></bylineMeta></div>

Pennsylvania Turnpike has $33M in uncollected tolls