7 1/2 year old parking ticket

[eballey]

What is the name of your state? California

My employer just received a notice to withhold for a court ordered debt collection. It turns out that this is for a ticket I received over 7 years ago. I paid this and of course I no longer have the records for it. I'm in the process of trying to collect info from my old bank. In the meantime, I thought there was a 7 year statute of limitations on collection of traffic tickets in California. Can you point me to the penal code so I may quote, I tried to bring this up in court and the judge said I didn't know what I was talking about. (very rude). Furthermore, the ticket and the rest of the court documentation that I have are different case numbers, off by one character. And so I raised the point that if this was evidently an error, then isn't it possible that there was an accounting error when my payment was applied. The judge stated that he supposed so, but he still wasn't going to take my word for it. Any thoughts?

Originally Posted by eballey

What is the name of your state? California

My employer just received a notice to withhold for a court ordered debt collection. It turns out that this is for a ticket I received over 7 years ago. I paid this and of course I no longer have the records for it. I'm in the process of trying to collect info from my old bank. In the meantime, I thought there was a 7 year statute of limitations on collection of traffic tickets in California. Can you point me to the penal code so I may quote, I tried to bring this up in court and the judge said I didn't know what I was talking about. (very rude). Furthermore, the ticket and the rest of the court documentation that I have are different case numbers, off by one character. And so I raised the point that if this was evidently an error, then isn't it possible that there was an accounting error when my payment was applied. The judge stated that he supposed so, but he still wasn't going to take my word for it. Any thoughts?

Q: Can you point me to the penal code so I may quote, I tried to bring this up in court and the judge said I didn't know what I was talking about.


A: The judge was correct. The statute of limitations stopped running the day the ticket was written.

[eballey]

Me again. I'm sorry, I don't understand. I have seen on this very website, that there is at statute of limitations for collection tickets in California of 7 years. What do mean when you way that the "clock stopped ticking" the day the ticket was written?

Originally Posted by eballey

Me again. I'm sorry, I don't understand. I have seen on this very website, that there is at statute of limitations for collection tickets in California of 7 years. What do mean when you way that the "clock stopped ticking" the day the ticket was written?

The statutes on limitations is, among other things, a statute telling the government how long it has to file a criminal charge (including a parking ticket). It stops running the day the charge is filed.

[eballey]

I'm talking about the actual collections of the ticket, not the charge.

THIS IS FORMER LA GUY RESPONDING TO A QUESTION

former la guy
What happens if you don't pay the ticket, penalties get added, and if your
lucky they ding your registration at DMV and you can't register unless you pay
it. At that point, your too late to contest too because you only have 21 days
to contest or 14 days from the FIRST notice.

If you no longer own the car, the DMV hold won't stop you from registering
another car but may garnish wages to collect if it's alot of money. They
(issuing agency) simply assigned your ticket to collections and will continue
to mail notices until you can't stand it. SOME collections agencies will resort
to garnish of wages, assign to small claims (rare, they are too busy).

Statue of limitations in collecting a ticket in Calif is 7 years.