Remove handbills within patrol areas.

“Remove handbills within patrol areas.” is a supplemental task performed by Parking Enforcement Workers. Among the occupation's 23 rated tasks, workers place it 1st by importance (#23 most important).

This is a single occupation-specific task statement from O*NET. The figures below describe how central the task is to the job and what independent studies measure about AI and this kind of work — not a prediction that the task will be automated.

AI exposure

The OpenAI / Eloundou “GPTs are GPTs” study rates this task E0. No direct exposure — current language models give little or no time savings on this task.

Exposure measures whether a model could meaningfully speed the task up — it is an estimate of overlap with model capabilities, not a measure of whether the work will be done by software. The study's intermediate score (β) for this task is 0.00. Automation potential label: T0.

Other tasks in this occupation

• Enter and retrieve information pertaining to vehicle registration, identification, and status, using hand-held computers. · importance 4.3
• Patrol an assigned area by vehicle or on foot to ensure public compliance with existing parking ordinance. · importance 4.3
• Write warnings and citations for illegally parked vehicles. · importance 4.3
• Appear in court at hearings regarding contested traffic citations. · importance 4.2
• Respond to and make radio dispatch calls regarding parking violations and complaints. · importance 4.2
• Maintain assigned equipment and supplies, such as hand-held citation computers, citation books, rain gear, tire-marking chalk, and street cones. · importance 4.2
• Maintain close communications with dispatching personnel, using two-way radios or cell phones. · importance 4.2
• Perform simple vehicle maintenance procedures, such as checking oil and gas, and report mechanical problems to supervisors. · importance 4.1
• Observe and report hazardous conditions, such as missing traffic signals or signs, and street markings that need to be repainted. · importance 4.1
• Identify vehicles in violation of parking codes, checking with dispatchers when necessary to confirm identities or to determine whether vehicles need to be booted or towed. · importance 4.1
• Train new or temporary staff. · importance 4.0
• Mark tires of parked vehicles with chalk and record time of marking, and return at regular intervals to ensure that parking time limits are not exceeded. · importance 3.9
• Locate lost, stolen, and counterfeit parking permits, and take necessary enforcement action. · importance 3.9
• Make arrangements for illegally parked or abandoned vehicles to be towed, and direct tow-truck drivers to the correct vehicles. · importance 3.9

See all tasks on the Parking Enforcement Workers page.

Sources for this page

Every figure above traces to a named public dataset and the exact release below — not hand-written opinion. See the full methodology for what each measure does and does not mean.

• O*NET 30.3 U.S. Department of Labor / National Center for O*NET Development
• “GPTs are GPTs” (Eloundou et al.) arXiv 2303.10130 OpenAI / academic

Data compiled June 2, 2026. Figures are estimates, not advice.

@misc{singulariki-task-7957,
  title  = {Remove handbills within patrol areas.},
  author = {{Singulariki}},
  year   = {2026},
  note   = {O*NET 30.3; “GPTs are GPTs” (Eloundou et al.) arXiv 2303.10130. Accessed June 7, 2026},
  url    = {https://singulariki.com/tasks/task-7957}
}