Parking Ticket Question
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If she went ahead and completed and filed the ticket, in a few weeks you'll be getting a Notice of Impending Conviction in the mail with a due date about six weeks after the offence. You can pay it by phone, on the web or at a bank, and it costs no more than if you paid the ticket within the 15 days it talks about on the back of the ticket.
For reasons of my own I happen to have Attack your Ticket; a practical guide to Canadian parking infractions, by McDonnell and Worsoff, Hushion Publishing, Toronto, 1992 at hand. They spend two pages on "drive-aways" and say that IF it gets to trial, without pleading either way, you should enter a pre-plea motion to quash the ticket on the grounds that it was not properly served (affixed to the vehicle or handed to the driver, the only methods provided for in the HTA). The officer must sign her copy saying the notice of infraction was so served, and if they have not, the JP should grant your motion.
Presumably the record at the Tags Office would show the signature—or lack of one—and they would pull the ticket before it got to trial. But someone still would have to go down to the office, as you must do if you intend to go to trial.
The Notice may never arrive, but if it does, in the words of the old joke, "Harry, just pay the two bits."
Ooops: the book was published 2002, not 1992
For reasons of my own I happen to have Attack your Ticket; a practical guide to Canadian parking infractions, by McDonnell and Worsoff, Hushion Publishing, Toronto, 1992 at hand. They spend two pages on "drive-aways" and say that IF it gets to trial, without pleading either way, you should enter a pre-plea motion to quash the ticket on the grounds that it was not properly served (affixed to the vehicle or handed to the driver, the only methods provided for in the HTA). The officer must sign her copy saying the notice of infraction was so served, and if they have not, the JP should grant your motion.
Presumably the record at the Tags Office would show the signature—or lack of one—and they would pull the ticket before it got to trial. But someone still would have to go down to the office, as you must do if you intend to go to trial.
The Notice may never arrive, but if it does, in the words of the old joke, "Harry, just pay the two bits."
Ooops: the book was published 2002, not 1992
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Although 1992 is a long time ago. I believe they've closed a lot of loopholes in the past 5 years or so...
If they do not put your ticket on the car or give it to you then you could fight it in court more if you get a notice in the mail.
You could argue that any parking enforcement officer could just be trying to fill a quota and they just copied down a bunch of plates that they could have seen anywhere and then just wrote the ticket.
Its worth a try.
You could argue that any parking enforcement officer could just be trying to fill a quota and they just copied down a bunch of plates that they could have seen anywhere and then just wrote the ticket.
Its worth a try.
Keebler Elf said:
I believe so, many things have changed in the last 15 years. I used to remember when I got a speeding ticket, or even a parking ticket, I would scan the ticket to find one thing wrong on it, anything, including one letter in my name or the wrong year or type of car. I would always win when I went to court, they threw it out before I even got to the judge. Not anymore, doesn't fly.
Leaving the scene when he's writing you a parking ticket and saying you never got the ticket is a weak arguement today. I would suspect it's up to you to prove where you were on that day and time. The way I look at these tickets today is your guilty until you prove your innocent because the judge will initially side with law enforcement. At the end of the day it's not worth it, if you know your guilty for a parking infraction, just pay it, it's no big deal and it won't show up on your insurance records.
