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jazzandjerz
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What is the name of your state? CA
While living in California for 4 months, I let some "friends", who also lived in CA, borrow my car (with Oklahoma plates) for 2 of those months (August and Sept. 2002). Upon returning my car to me, they informed me that they had received 2 parking tickets, but they had already paid them. I thought nothing of it, until I received a collections notice in the mail this week, saying that I now owed $200 after penalties.
I proceeded to call the LA parking ticket bureau and tell them my situation. I told them that I would be more than willing to pay the tickets, but that I wouldn't pay the penalties, as I had never received a notice from them (even though I had filled out a maik forwarding order when I moved to Colorado in November 2002). The lady who answered my call told me that they had sent out a notice to my California address in March 2003, informing me of the unpaid tickets. She said it took so long to send the notice to me, since I had out of state plates, that penalties had already accrued by the time they sent the notice. She told me that she understood that it was not my fault I had never received a notice, and that it was not my fault that penalties had been assessed, but that it was on my record, and there was nothing she could do to take the penalties off.
Can this be right? Can I be charged late fees and penalties because of something that was not my fault, and something I did not become informed of until I received a collections letter a year later?
While living in California for 4 months, I let some "friends", who also lived in CA, borrow my car (with Oklahoma plates) for 2 of those months (August and Sept. 2002). Upon returning my car to me, they informed me that they had received 2 parking tickets, but they had already paid them. I thought nothing of it, until I received a collections notice in the mail this week, saying that I now owed $200 after penalties.
I proceeded to call the LA parking ticket bureau and tell them my situation. I told them that I would be more than willing to pay the tickets, but that I wouldn't pay the penalties, as I had never received a notice from them (even though I had filled out a maik forwarding order when I moved to Colorado in November 2002). The lady who answered my call told me that they had sent out a notice to my California address in March 2003, informing me of the unpaid tickets. She said it took so long to send the notice to me, since I had out of state plates, that penalties had already accrued by the time they sent the notice. She told me that she understood that it was not my fault I had never received a notice, and that it was not my fault that penalties had been assessed, but that it was on my record, and there was nothing she could do to take the penalties off.
Can this be right? Can I be charged late fees and penalties because of something that was not my fault, and something I did not become informed of until I received a collections letter a year later?