North Somerset Council has announced plans to take over parking enforcement from the police.
The authority does not currently handle yellow line enforcement and is the only council in the former Avon area where police still have the job of prosecuting parking violations.
The new Conservative administration had confirmed it wishes to expand the work of its small team of parking attendants, who only monitor parking in Weston-super-Mare and council-owned car parks.
A spokesman for the council said it would not be applying to take on powers over moving traffic violations and would simply carry out standard on-street parking enforcement.
'We are at the very early stages of the process of going over to civil parking enforcement. We will need to complete a full application to the Department for Transport, their requirement is that they have to have that application six months before any implementation,' a spokeswoman said.
Deputy council leader Cllr Elfan Ap Rees, who is responsible for transport, said: ‘Yes, it is something we are definitely working towards. We are still finding that visitors and, unfortunately, residents are parking in inappropriate places. They are still parking on double yellow lines, and parking haphazardly.
‘We have obviously been trying to work with the police for them to enforce the parking, but they clearly don't have enough resources to do that. They don't want to do it. It is clear that we are going to have to take it on.’
After making the bulk of its £100m of planned savings, the authority is in a position to handle the upfront costs. The council has not confirmed how much these could be but Cllr Rees told local papers the parking fines are expected to generate income for local transport services in the long-term.
Avon and Somerset police spokeswoman, Jenny Bigwood, said: 'We welcome the proposal to decriminalise parking in North Somerset, in line with other local authority areas in the Avon and Somerset police area.
‘Local people often raise parking issues as a priority. Having a dedicated council resource in place to tackle this problem will enable police resources to be directed at other policing priorities identified by the community.’
