My car is properly registered, but my license plate stickers were expired

[jgrimm21]

What is the name of your state (only U.S. law)? Virginia

I am a female graduate student in Savannah, GA and I recently had a very terrible 24 hours. My car was properly registered (and had been for 6 months!) however I did not have up to date stickers on my license plate. Within less than 24 hours I received 3 parking tickets for $50 each for an expired registration. MY REGISTRATION IS NOT EXPIRED!!! Is there a separate law for the stickers above and beyond having my car registered? Two of my tickets I received within 30 minutes of each other and ALSO 2 out of 3 were written by the same officer! Will I be able to get off of all of my tickets?

[xylene]

Originally Posted by jgrimm21

What is the name of your state (only U.S. law)? Virginia

I am a female graduate student in Savannah, GA and I recently had a very terrible 24 hours. My car was properly registered (and had been for 6 months!) however I did not have up to date stickers on my license plate. Within less than 24 hours I received 3 parking tickets for $50 each for an expired registration. MY REGISTRATION IS NOT EXPIRED!!! Is there a separate law for the stickers above and beyond having my car registered? Two of my tickets I received within 30 minutes of each other and ALSO 2 out of 3 were written by the same officer! Will I be able to get off of all of my tickets?

Not likely.

You need to have the current stickers on the plate for the registration to be valid and not subject to tickets.

The fact that your registration was current is immaterial to the fact that you failed to display the stickers that convey current registration properly.

Be thankful you were not pulled over of this as it could have been a much worse fine.

[CdwJava]

That depends ... were the citations for code sections covering the display of current registration, or the actual registration?

- Carl

[HighwayMan]

This occurred in Savannah and your car is registered in Virginia? You aren't clear on this.

[Adalaide78]

Police and parking enforcement officers are not psychic. They can't just walk by a car and magically tell if it's registered or not, which is why the law requires that you actually put that sticker on your car. I do know that in some areas you can't ticket a car for the same violation more than one time a day, or sometimes you can't ticket for the same violation if a ticket for it is already on your window. I'd Google it and find out if this is the case where you are, but you aren't clear on where the ticket was issued and frankly if I can look it up you can too. Just find out exactly what the laws are where you were ticketed and exactly what the tickets are for and you'll know if you're stuck with them or might have some wiggle room.