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What is the name of your state (only U.S. law)? CA
My family and I parked our car in a shopping center parking lot, in a spot that had a green curb marked "20 min. parking". It was after business hours, 8:25pm, and my husband delivers furniture for a living so he knows the parking laws, so he said that since it was after 6pm, the green curb no longer applies and we could park there. Anyways, we were going to patronize a restaurant in the shopping center, so it's not like we were just parking to go somewhere else outside of the center. There were signs posted saying that the lot was private property, that the parking spaces were for customers only, which we were, and that the max time for parking was 2 hours. Other than that, there was no wording saying that parking was enforced 24 hours. After 1.75 hrs later, we emerged from the restaurant to find our car gone. We called the towing company on the sign and he said we were towed because we had parked in a 20 minute stall and they towed us after one hour. I told him that the signs posted said the maximum time for parking was 2 hours, but he replied that we were still parked in a 20 minute spot. Are the laws for public property green curbs different from private property green curbs?
My family and I parked our car in a shopping center parking lot, in a spot that had a green curb marked "20 min. parking". It was after business hours, 8:25pm, and my husband delivers furniture for a living so he knows the parking laws, so he said that since it was after 6pm, the green curb no longer applies and we could park there. Anyways, we were going to patronize a restaurant in the shopping center, so it's not like we were just parking to go somewhere else outside of the center. There were signs posted saying that the lot was private property, that the parking spaces were for customers only, which we were, and that the max time for parking was 2 hours. Other than that, there was no wording saying that parking was enforced 24 hours. After 1.75 hrs later, we emerged from the restaurant to find our car gone. We called the towing company on the sign and he said we were towed because we had parked in a 20 minute stall and they towed us after one hour. I told him that the signs posted said the maximum time for parking was 2 hours, but he replied that we were still parked in a 20 minute spot. Are the laws for public property green curbs different from private property green curbs?