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[teele-sq.livejournal.com]

Nothing says All American City quite like fifty dollar parking tickets for forgetting to put a two cent placard up on the dashboard.

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[phoenixy.livejournal.com]

There is a special temporary permit you can get for a rental car. (Of course, I've gotten a ticket even with one of these displayed, but when I contested it they dismissed it without even checking whether I had applied for a temporary permit, so I think the OP should be able to get this ticket dismissed with no problem.)

[teele-sq.livejournal.com]

Yeah I will ask for clarification on this if I go to the parking office. Every time I park a zip car at my house I use my guest passes. The idea that I need to go get a special temporary permit every time I rent a zip car is preposterous.

[phoenixy.livejournal.com]

I think the main point of the rental car pass is that you can use it for longer than the two-day-a-week max of the guest permit. I don't expect them to give you any hassle for using the guest permit for a short term rental like a zipcar.

[icecreamempress.livejournal.com]

You don't, and the people at the parking office will tell you this.

The "controlled" thing on the guest pass is to keep you from using it in your company car that's registered somewhere other than Somerville, not to keep you from using it occasionally in a rental car. (And, as phoenixy says, you're not supposed to use it in a rental car for more than that two-day-a-week max.)