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Disputing a Parking Violation
snorepez
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Odds are, I should pay this ticket, but I'd still like to hear what people think.
Situation:
I've been living at a shared house since June 2012. The house has a driveway, but it can only fit two cars. We decided I would keep the parking permit, which is the type that hangs from the rear view mirror (not the front windowshield sticker/decal type) and my roommates (two cars) would park in the driveway. I've hung up this permit for a year now, and I have never received a ticket. Last Wednesday, I forgot to hang it up at night, and the next evening I got a ticket placed on my car.
So, would it be at all admissible and excusable by the court to dispute this ticket, by bringing evidence of the driveway capacity as well as my length of residency (which would match the complete absence of previous tickets at this location)?
The majority of me is saying, "Pay the ticket. Learn from your mistake. Move on."
Thoughts? Thanks.
Situation:
I've been living at a shared house since June 2012. The house has a driveway, but it can only fit two cars. We decided I would keep the parking permit, which is the type that hangs from the rear view mirror (not the front windowshield sticker/decal type) and my roommates (two cars) would park in the driveway. I've hung up this permit for a year now, and I have never received a ticket. Last Wednesday, I forgot to hang it up at night, and the next evening I got a ticket placed on my car.
So, would it be at all admissible and excusable by the court to dispute this ticket, by bringing evidence of the driveway capacity as well as my length of residency (which would match the complete absence of previous tickets at this location)?
The majority of me is saying, "Pay the ticket. Learn from your mistake. Move on."
Thoughts? Thanks.
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I went to city hall with the ticket, my parking pass, and my drivers license (which listed that address as my residence) and they cancelled the ticket. Now, I may have just gotten lucky with a sympathetic clerk, but it's probably worth a call or a visit to see if this is a possibility.
@Matt has a problem: That's a very logical approach...I will calculate that. That'll probably be the deciding factor.
@Conquerorw0rm: The ticket lists it as an "Officer" that issued the ticket, but I've seen them stalking my street before, and it's just a by-law officer/rent-a-cop type person.
In New York City is a cop writes a bad ticket, he loses vacation days, to discourage cops from writing tickets for people who haven't broken the law. Although they were trying to overturn that policy a while back, I wonder if they succeeded.
Well, it wasn't that way in Illinois in the late 90s. They would pick an aisle in the highschool parking lots and just give the whole row a ticket - hoping most wouldn't bother to dispute it, I assume.
At my college they would regularly do that when it would snow.
If you came in before the lot was cleared in the morning, you couldn't see the lines. So everyone would park off the car next to them and end up all haphazard.
Later in the day, the snow would melt and they would ticket all the cars parked in multiple spaces, on lines, or not entirely in their space. So, everyone because nobody can park worth a fuck when they can't see the lines, and even if you CAN see the lines you're stuck parking in between cars that are already there.
EDIT - oh yeah; you just had to send them a letter / e-mail challenging that the parking lot was improperly maintained and they would drop it...but most people probably just paid the $15 ticket.