Fancylove999
Junior Member
For New York State .
There's two ticket scenarios for NY State; thanks in advance for your expert legal advice:
1) The crux of the question is: For non-metered parking violations (e.g., being too close to fire hydrant, parking in no standing space), how often can you be ticketed for the same violation within a certain window of time. Can they legally ticket, let's say, every hour, or 4 hours, ... or just once per day? You see, I received a ticket for being 10 feet from a fire hydrant (my bad, too close) at 3AM Sunday morning, and then again at 7AM Sunday morning. I am not disagreeing with the first ticket, it's the second ticket that's got my goat. One would reasonably surmise that if one parks in a residential zone at 3AM, they're probably going to be there overnight and not come out to get the car at 5AM in the morning and see the first ticket. Is there something on the books that states when the next "repeat" ticket can take place if it's not at a meter. You think I have a good argument?
2) Second question is: What allowances can be made for a personal vehicle that needs to park near an office building during the day in order to load one heavy bulky item (a set of lockers) If I could, I would have picked up the item after-hours, however the office building said pickups only from 9AM - 4PM. So, I had to make a trip during the day in my personal car since I have no commerical vehicle, and parked in a "No standing except trucks loading/unloading" zone (that's the only type of zone around for blocks) in order to load this one item quickly. I was not double parking, or blocking another truck from coming through. Also, I made sure I had an extra person in the car at all times while I went up to the office building to get the item. While I was loading it, an officer said I had to move the car that very minute. I kindly asked if he could wait until I loaded this one item that would not take more than one minute -- the item was on a handtruck and being lifted onto the van as we were speaking -- and he said he could not wait until we finished loading, and gave us a ticket then. I must add, he was being unreasonable; we were very polite and certainly hurrying as fast as we could. Yes, I wished I had a commercial license then everything would have been alright, however there may be one or two times that one just needs to go the city to pick up something during the day because that's the only times they are opened. Question is again: what scenarios are allowed for parking for loading purposes if it's done expeditiously. What do you think are my odds of fighting this?
Thanks,
Nancy
There's two ticket scenarios for NY State; thanks in advance for your expert legal advice:
1) The crux of the question is: For non-metered parking violations (e.g., being too close to fire hydrant, parking in no standing space), how often can you be ticketed for the same violation within a certain window of time. Can they legally ticket, let's say, every hour, or 4 hours, ... or just once per day? You see, I received a ticket for being 10 feet from a fire hydrant (my bad, too close) at 3AM Sunday morning, and then again at 7AM Sunday morning. I am not disagreeing with the first ticket, it's the second ticket that's got my goat. One would reasonably surmise that if one parks in a residential zone at 3AM, they're probably going to be there overnight and not come out to get the car at 5AM in the morning and see the first ticket. Is there something on the books that states when the next "repeat" ticket can take place if it's not at a meter. You think I have a good argument?
2) Second question is: What allowances can be made for a personal vehicle that needs to park near an office building during the day in order to load one heavy bulky item (a set of lockers) If I could, I would have picked up the item after-hours, however the office building said pickups only from 9AM - 4PM. So, I had to make a trip during the day in my personal car since I have no commerical vehicle, and parked in a "No standing except trucks loading/unloading" zone (that's the only type of zone around for blocks) in order to load this one item quickly. I was not double parking, or blocking another truck from coming through. Also, I made sure I had an extra person in the car at all times while I went up to the office building to get the item. While I was loading it, an officer said I had to move the car that very minute. I kindly asked if he could wait until I loaded this one item that would not take more than one minute -- the item was on a handtruck and being lifted onto the van as we were speaking -- and he said he could not wait until we finished loading, and gave us a ticket then. I must add, he was being unreasonable; we were very polite and certainly hurrying as fast as we could. Yes, I wished I had a commercial license then everything would have been alright, however there may be one or two times that one just needs to go the city to pick up something during the day because that's the only times they are opened. Question is again: what scenarios are allowed for parking for loading purposes if it's done expeditiously. What do you think are my odds of fighting this?
Thanks,
Nancy