a parking ticket question

[surfergirl602]

My husband received a notice in the mail of a parking ticket that wasn't paid from when we lived in NY... the date from the ticket is over 4 years ago. We don't even live in that state anymore.

Anyway, how do we contest this? My husband is very sure that he never got the ticket in the first place, and we would have paid it if he did. It's for 75$, plus a 75$ fee for it being late.

I'm just confused about this entire thing - it says last notice on it... we haven't even received a first notice (being the ticket). I know what the tickets look like in NY where we lived... they were just a small piece of paper, about the size of a gas receipt that they stick under your wiper. IF he had been given a ticket on the truck, what if it had been blown off or something? We never got another notice about it until now. And I wonder how they even got our new address... hmmm.....

Anyway... is there anything we can do about this besides paying it? We don't want it on his license, especially since we feel that he didn't get it in the first place. And it said municipal parking violation.... we never parked in municipal parking as we lived on a military base.

 

[Eeyore'sthebest]

I would call the municipality and definitely question it. But if it's not a lot of money you might want to go ahead and pay it.

There are some towns here in NJ that will suspend your license if you have unpaid tickets for too long. I know Seaside Heights does it because it is such a tourist town it is the only way they have to enforce their tickets. DH got caught up in this (before we met). He ended up having to have someone drive him to the town to pay them in person.
My SIL had received parking tickets, never paid them, moved to FL and never thought twice about them. FL DMV actually caught up with her a year later that her license had been suspended in NJ and was now subsequently suspended in FL. She had to fly back to NJ to pay the tickets in person and get her receipt to return it to FL DMV. Maybe she could have done it by mail but it was a true pain in the behind.

So think twice if you had planned on ignoring it.

BTW, is it possible your DH lent his vehicle to a friend who received the ticket and never told your DH. That happened to someone else I know. Can you tell NJ is a pain about parking.

 

[mjkacmom]

I would call the municipality and definitely question it. But if it's not a lot of money you might want to go ahead and pay it.

There are some towns here in NJ that will suspend your license if you have unpaid tickets for too long. I know Seaside Heights does it because it is such a tourist town it is the only way they have to enforce their tickets. DH got caught up in this (before we met). He ended up having to have someone drive him to the town to pay them in person.
My SIL had received parking tickets, never paid them, moved to FL and never thought twice about them. FL DMV actually caught up with her a year later that her license had been suspended in NJ and was now subsequently suspended in FL. She had to fly back to NJ to pay the tickets in person and get her receipt to return it to FL DMV. Maybe she could have done it by mail but it was a true pain in the behind.

So think twice if you had planned on ignoring it.

BTW, is it possible your DH lent his vehicle to a friend who received the ticket and never told your DH. That happened to someone else I know. Can you tell NJ is a pain about parking.

Well, since you seem to be an expect on NJ parking laws I have some questions. I got a parking ticket a few weeks ago, and lost it. I email the municipal clerk in that town, and haven't heard back. Also, DH got a ticket in the mail, showing (my van) going through a red light. This has also been misplaced. I want to pay!

 

[Becky2005]

I'm not sure how to go about it but I would check into it. I am a little leery of parking tickets that magically appear after several years.

Chicago tried to pull that stunt on me as a teenager. I never drove into the city (I don't even do it NOW as an adult if I can help it), so there was absolutely no way the parking ticket was mine. My parents wrote them refuting it or something or other -- I don't remember as the licenses plate was really in their name not mine, etc...

Turns out at that time Chicago had sent out tons of false parking tickets. I don't remember if it was a computer glitch or some other situation but it wasn't until AFTER we got the ticket we had even heard of it.

Is there a number on it you can call and ask about the situation? I wouldn't ignore it but I would try to see about getting to the bottom of it.

 

[Eeyore'sthebest]

Well, since you seem to be an expect on NJ parking laws I have some questions. I got a parking ticket a few weeks ago, and lost it. I email the municipal clerk in that town, and haven't heard back. Also, DH got a ticket in the mail, showing (my van) going through a red light. This has also been misplaced. I want to pay!

I would contact the police stations that issued the tickets. And I'm far from an expert. I just married into a family that has issues paying their parking tickets.

 

[Luvchefmic]

Oh boy New York ! Don't know where you're living now but one way or the other you had better take care of this ASAP, my DH is a trucker, we're here 2 yrs, he started a job, went to orientation, and then I got a call telling me when he would be back on the Greyhound Bus, apparently he "forgot" about a parking ticket (not even implying that's your situation) BUT NY suspended his license AND threatened a warrant for failure to appear

I copied the email we received after we paid and take note of the final cost to clear this mess up (I bolded it) becuase of late fees etc. and obviously x'd out his name, the web site for NY is on the bottom of this...good luck, and for a pp that mentioned the PD for the original ticket, having worked for PDs in NY I doubt that would be a help...too long ago.



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[surfergirl602]

No, we don't plan on ignoring it, but I have no idea how to dispute it. There's no way we can fly clear across the country to go to court, so I am hoping they can deal with my husband over the phone with it. We lived over 45 minutes from the town the ticket was issued in, and never went there, so I have no idea where this is coming from. It's just very odd that we're getting this now, so many years later! We aren't even NY residents. LOL

 

[bettymae1121]

Did you ever valet park your car? I've heard of valets that park where they aren't supposed to and toss the ticket before giving you the car back. People go for months or years never knowing they have unpaid tickets!

 

[hereyago]

A few years ago, I had regular license plates while waiting for personalized plates to come in. I turned in the regular plates after I got my personalized plates to the DMV. A couple years later, I get a letter from Arlington va saying that I had ignored past ticket for a parking ticket there and etc.

Ok, I have never been to Arlington. I do live in Va, but nowhere closeby. So I call them and ask if they can get into DMV"s computer system as it wasn't me and this was never my car, description wasn't even close.

So the lady was able to access the dmv and of course, my car was not it. She told me that she even one time had personalized plates from a guy in FLorida call her for the same thing. the dmv reissues the plates.

In a city nearby, Norfolk, Va. they are raking in parking ticket money, BUT: they have sent out notices about a parking ticket, no description of car and saying the ticket may or may not be yours, but they have taken the parking ticket fee out of tax refunds.

 

[Luvchefmic]

No, we don't plan on ignoring it, but I have no idea how to dispute it. There's no way we can fly clear across the country to go to court, so I am hoping they can deal with my husband over the phone with it. We lived over 45 minutes from the town the ticket was issued in, and never went there, so I have no idea where this is coming from. It's just very odd that we're getting this now, so many years later! We aren't even NY residents. LOL

Like I said it was over 2 yrs ago for DH...NY NY a helluva town...

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