davis_square | Remove your expired parking stickers! (Reply)

Last year I moved away from Somerville, and since February when my parking sticker expired I've been using friends' visitor permit cards when I visit them (2 or 3 times a month on average). I have not removed my expired parking stickers (I have about a dozen of them from previous years) because I couldn't manage to peel them off, and I didn't think it mattered. But on Tuesday night I got a ticket while parking on Bromfield Rd, with the comments "EXPIRED PERMIT" and "USEING GUEST CARD". I called 311 to clarify the issue, and was informed that it's illegal to have an expired parking sticker, even while otherwise parking legally. I guess I've just been lucky that no one noticed this the previous dozen times I've used a visitor permit card, or else they just started enforcing this law. So, here's a public service message: make sure to remove your expired stickers if you ever want to park in Somerville again (the 311 responder suggested using Windex and a scraper).

By the way, does anyone think I have any chance of appealing this ticket?