Standing in Handicapped Parking

What is the name of your state?What is the name of your state? MA

I stopped my car in a Handicapped parking space to buy a newspaper. Car running, my wife, a licenced driver in the front seat. Officer ticketed immediately ($300). My wife offered to move the car, but officer asked her to remain so he could write the ticket. Appealed, but hearing officer said that you can't stand in a no handicapped parking space because handicapped people can't ask you to move. I asked to see where in the Massachussets General law it explained this and she told me I could probably find it on the internet.
If I broke the law I want to pay the fine, but I'd like to see the law and I'd like the sign to have said no standing if that's the law. Please advise.

[HomeGuru]

Originally Posted by DBHDBHDBH

What is the name of your state?What is the name of your state? MA

I stopped my car in a Handicapped parking space to buy a newspaper. Car running, my wife, a licenced driver in the front seat. Officer ticketed immediately ($300). My wife offered to move the car, but officer asked her to remain so he could write the ticket. Appealed, but hearing officer said that you can't stand in a no handicapped parking space because handicapped people can't ask you to move. I asked to see where in the Massachussets General law it explained this and she told me I could probably find it on the internet.
If I broke the law I want to pay the fine, but I'd like to see the law and I'd like the sign to have said no standing if that's the law. Please advise.

**A: you were not supposed to be in the space at all period.

[stephenk]

"I stopped my car in a Handicapped parking space to buy a newspaper."

wouldn't you call that "parking"? who cares if the engine is running and your wife is in the car. your car was stopped in a handicap parking space. case closed.

[I AM ALWAYS LIABLE]

My response:

I love this guy's use of semantics. What the rest of us call "parking", this guy calls it "standing".

A horse of a different color is still a horse.

IAAL

Originally Posted by stephenk

"I stopped my car in a Handicapped parking space to buy a newspaper."

wouldn't you call that "parking"? who cares if the engine is running and your wife is in the car. your car was stopped in a handicap parking space. case closed.

I call it standing. It's different than parking in that parking shows intent to leave the car there and the inability to move the car.

[I AM ALWAYS LIABLE]

Originally Posted by DBHDBHDBH

I call it standing. It's different than parking in that parking shows intent to leave the car there and the inability to move the car.

My response:

Really? I didn't know we were having the pleasure of talking to the Senate Judiciary Legislative Committee Chairman! I guess our writer's new definition of the law will take effect in January 2005. But, as of right now, that "meaning" or "intent" is NOT the law.

IAAL

[CdwJava]

Originally Posted by DBHDBHDBH

I call it standing. It's different than parking in that parking shows intent to leave the car there and the inability to move the car.

I believe that parking, standing, and/or stopping are all prohibited in a handicapped spot without the proper placard or plate.

There should be a statute number on the citation ... what is it?

Carl