Ticket - duh, and ouch

[koshmom.livejournal.com]

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?

Comments

[prunesnprisms.livejournal.com]

I believe the state stopped sending reminder letters for registration this year or a couple years back to save on $$, and hey presto they are making money off of people doing this exact thing. Surprising, right?

Sorry for your troubles. This has happened to me too.

[surrealestate.livejournal.com]

They stopped sending reminders for licenses. AFAIK, they still send them for regs. (Or did for mine last year, anyway.)

[afty.livejournal.com]

That's right. My registration expired last month, and I did receive a reminder in the mail to renew. I did not receive one when my license expired earlier this year.

[violet-helix.livejournal.com]

Are you sure it was from the Registry? My boyfriend gets all of the necessary renewal paperwork form his insurance company. I do not. I got ticketed not once, but twice*, this year because of an expired registration.

*No I didn't just blow off the first ticket. The State Police, in their infinite wisdom mailed it to me. I didn't actually receive it until I had gotten a ticket from the City of Boston, which was left on my windshield and prompted me to immediately renew.

[boblothrope.livejournal.com]

Not only does the RMV send a registration renewal form, you *need* it to be able to renew. I tried to renew mine early, before I forgot, and the website required a code number from the renewal form which I hadn't received yet.