What is the name of your state (only U.S. law)? PA
I received a traffic citation in the mail today. The date of offense is from April 27. The "date filed" was May 6. It caught me by surprise because I never saw an actual ticket on my car. I have since moved across the state, and just today, over 5 months later I received that actual letter of the offense in the mail. Is that kind of strange that it would take so long?
Anyway, the citation is for parking within 30ft of a stop sign, which people have done every day for the two year period I lived at this location and I never noticed anyone getting a ticket. The law is the law, but I am wondering how likely it would be to successfully fight the citation because of a lack of yellow paint on the curb or lack of a sign that says something like "no parking from here to corner". I always thought that people go by the yellow lines so that they weren't required to memorize the traffic laws in an instance like this.
I received a traffic citation in the mail today. The date of offense is from April 27. The "date filed" was May 6. It caught me by surprise because I never saw an actual ticket on my car. I have since moved across the state, and just today, over 5 months later I received that actual letter of the offense in the mail. Is that kind of strange that it would take so long?
Anyway, the citation is for parking within 30ft of a stop sign, which people have done every day for the two year period I lived at this location and I never noticed anyone getting a ticket. The law is the law, but I am wondering how likely it would be to successfully fight the citation because of a lack of yellow paint on the curb or lack of a sign that says something like "no parking from here to corner". I always thought that people go by the yellow lines so that they weren't required to memorize the traffic laws in an instance like this.
