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Montreal’s mayor is asking the province to clarify rules around photo radar, after a judge recently threw out a $1,160 speeding ticket issued by one of the devices.

“I was a bit surprised to see this,” Mayor Denis Coderre said at Wednesday morning’s public executive committee meeting. “Considering thousands of tickets could be cancelled because the process was called inexact, the government should shed light on this.”

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In a Quebec Court decision rendered Monday, Judge Serge Cimon said the evidence in a photo radar fine was not admissible because it was based on hearsay evidence. The officer who issued the ticket was not present at the time of the infraction and did not visit the site afterward, the judge noted in the ruling. So the officer could not say if the device was properly calibrated or if there was a sign posting the speed limit in the area where the car was driving. The officer relied on statements from other officers who made those checks, Cimon wrote.