parking permit question

[leko.livejournal.com]

My girlfriend got a $50 ticket because her parking sticker was "taped to the window."

Actually, the sticker was kinda static-stuck to the window. After having a hell of a time removing the old sticker, and because this one was only going to be on her car for a month anyway (we switched zones, so had to buy a permit that would expire in 1 or 2 months, which is a whole separate gripe), she stuck it to a clear plastic film and then static stuck that to her windshield. It had been fine for a few weeks, but I guess has started to come off a bit so it looks like it's taped on.

So she got a ticket, which didn't really surprise me, but she wants to appeal it, because she hasn't been able to find anything on the parking office's website saying the sticker needed to be stuck directly to the windshield and not taped there. Does anyone have a link to relevant city laws?

Comments

[firstfrost.livejournal.com]

Perhaps they think you're trying to get around the regulation that says you can't transfer a sticker from one car to another?

[desiringsubject.livejournal.com]

This would be my guess, but I assume that the sticker is associated with the car Somewhere in the documentation, which should make this easy to appeal.

[ron_newman]

Don't stickers have the license plate number marked on them?

[leko.livejournal.com]

They have the license plate written on them in sharpie.

[phoenixy.livejournal.com]

They do, but you can transfer an existing registration to another car, which would let you keep the same plate number but have a different car. The parking permit is not valid on a different car, even with the same registration.

[m00n.livejournal.com]

What exactly is this point of this rule anyway? It's not like it causes more parking spaces to be used up.

[firstfrost.livejournal.com]

Well, if you have a driveway or some other reserved parking space, you could still get a resident sticker, and then use it as a guest permit? (except for the part about having the license number on them, which has been pointed out above)

[m00n.livejournal.com]

If you *did* have a driveway, why would you bother paying for a permit, and even if you did, what's wrong with occasionally using it to park another car in the space that the permit entitles you to?

[firstfrost.livejournal.com]

If you *did* have a driveway, why would you bother paying for a permit?

So that I can park elsewhere in Somerville if I need to. So that if someone visits for a week, I can park on the street and they can park in my spot.

what's wrong with occasionally using it to park another car in the space that the permit entitles you to?

Presumably the city would say that the permit doesn't entitle me to one space for any car, but one space for a particular car. I don't claim that that's the friendliest policy they could have, but I think it's the one they *do* have.

[treacle-well.livejournal.com]

If I had a driveway I might pay for a permit so that when I had guests I could park on the street and let them park in the driveway.

[sparkgrrl658.livejournal.com]

ding!

this has been helpful to us :)