davis_square | Ticket - duh, and ouch

I got a ticket today in Somerville for expired registration. The danged license plate says "SEP" and today is "OCT". I'm going to the RMV with a friend tomorrow (she's driving her car) to get the registration up to date. 2 questions for Davis Square:

1. Ticket is for $100. If I get my registration fixed tomorrow, is there any way I can possibly get the ticket taken off/forgiven/lessened if I show them I fixed the issue ASAP? Who do I talk to about that possibility?

2. Do I get points on my license for this and the associated raised insurance fees?

I haven't gotten a ticket of any kind in over 15 years. I feel so dirty! and Bad!

Note to all: CHECK THE DANGED MONTH ON YOUR LICENSE PLATE AND ON YOUR WINDSHIELD STICKER TODAY!!!!
also: check when your driver's license expires. It's no fun to get a ticket for something like that which is so easily avoided.

Addendum: I got the opportunity to pay the ticket with the same check used to pay the renewal, so the ticket is paid. It was NOT a 'Somerville' ticket, it was a MA general ticket, complete with my driver's license info. So according to what others said below, I'm likely to be surcharged. Which sux. So now I likely have 2 points against me. When does the surcharge pop in? How many years will I be surcharged for?

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For the record, I got stopped while driving and given a ticket for expired registration. It was 5 months overdue (I never noticed it, honestly, and must have missed the replacement sticker) and I got the same "I should impound your car" story, but also didn't get anything other than a $100 ticket.

This isn't to say that this is a general rule, just that cops regularly say that they're supposed to impound your car, but I haven't heard of them actually doing it for just an expired registration :)

Happened to me once. Although they don't have to impound it, if you have a driveway to tow it to.

I was on the way to the airport for a funeral.... not a good day.

It happened to someone I know—TWICE. Two years apart. His car was registered at his dad's house, and he was living elsewhere, so he wasn't getting the reminder notices, and for some reason his dad didn't forward them. You'd think he'd have learned his lesson the first time, but no. I know that one of these incidents involved the police in Groton, and the other time might have been Westford or Chelmsford, or possibly Lowell. Either way, yes, they will impound your car for this.

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