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Wacky, Wacky Law
Jul 8, 2023 06:37:39 #
In MA, if you drive your car in that state for thirty days, you must register the car there and buy a license plate. A man visited a friend for just over a month, and someone reported him for a parking violation. Now, the MA vehicle people are threatening to revoke his license. He's been fighting this for a couple of years, and they gave him a sixty-day extension.
When they say thirty days, they don't mean one after the other. They mean thirty days within a year. Fortunately, this has a happy ending.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wei62939gkA
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8hjBCfOV7Q0
When they say thirty days, they don't mean one after the other. They mean thirty days within a year. Fortunately, this has a happy ending.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wei62939gkA
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8hjBCfOV7Q0
Jul 8, 2023 07:09:26 #
So if you visit MA for 8 days, four times a year,....
SO stupid.
(Money grubbing??)
SO stupid.
(Money grubbing??)
Jul 8, 2023 07:14:52 #
Longshadow wrote:
So if you visit MA for 8 days, four times a year,....
SO stupid.
(Money grubbing??)
SO stupid.
(Money grubbing??)
Of course, someone has to keep track of all the out-of-state cars and how many days they were in the state.
Jul 8, 2023 07:19:35 #
jerryc41 wrote:
Of course, someone has to keep track of all the out-of-state cars and how many days they were in the state.
Nosy neighbors would be good for that......
Jul 8, 2023 07:21:10 #
Longshadow wrote:
Nosy neighbors would be good for that......
Nosy neighbors would be good for that......
That's how this guy got caught.
Jul 8, 2023 07:25:21 #
Jul 8, 2023 08:18:48 #
I was visiting a cousin in Pittsburgh, PA several years ago for a mini family reunion & parked my car around the corner from his house overnight so the company delivering tables & chairs could have access. The next day I went to move my car & discovered a parking ticket. Seems in Pittsburgh you can't park on certain streets without a permit overnight. No signs & my cousin wasn't aware that where I parked was a no overnight parking street. He had lived there for 5 years. I emailed the parking enforcement department & they voided the ticket.
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Jul 8, 2023 08:24:11 #
nicksr1125 wrote:
I was visiting a cousin in Pittsburgh, PA several ... (show quote)
I have seen resident parking permits required signs in some areas.
Jul 8, 2023 09:09:41 #
nicksr1125 wrote:
I was visiting a cousin in Pittsburgh, PA several ... (show quote)
The money must keep flowing in.
Jul 8, 2023 10:49:37 #
jerryc41 wrote:
In MA, if you drive your car in that state for thirty days, you must register the car there and buy a license plate.
I have a house in Mass and one in Florida, and this is just one of MANY reasons that I’m leaving Massachusetts and moving permanently to the house in Florida.
Andy - taking a break from throwing stuff away to read thru the UHH posts for the day
Jul 9, 2023 09:45:57 #
[quote=jerryc41]In MA, if you drive your car in that state for thirty days, you must register the car there and buy a license plate. A man visited a friend for just over a month, and someone reported him for a parking violation. Now, the MA vehicle people are threatening to revoke his license. He's been fighting this for a couple of years, and they gave him a sixty-day extension.
They'd have a hard time enforcing that idea here in Arizona. We have too many snowbirds not only from the northern & midwestern states but, from Canada as well.
They'd have a hard time enforcing that idea here in Arizona. We have too many snowbirds not only from the northern & midwestern states but, from Canada as well.
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Jul 9, 2023 10:47:17 #
jerryc41 wrote:
In MA, if you drive your car in that state for thi... (show quote)
I have to imagine that law would be struck down given the right challenge. My nearest national park has some 15 employees that live in Carlsbad NM, but cross to Texas several times weekly to work. It seems there is no way a Texas law could force these people to buy Texas plates, as they are not even paid as Texas employees, but federal. I can imagine, say, a lawn and garden service that crosses state lines 30+ days challenging the MA law as an illegal state-to-state tariff that imposes a barrier to doing business in MA.
Jul 9, 2023 11:22:03 #
jerryc41 wrote:
In MA, if you drive your car in that state for thi... (show quote)
If the man was visiting, he didn't live in MA and I would guess his license was from a state other than MA -- so how could they revoke his license -- they wouldn't have the authority to do so. Fine him, yes, but revoke his license -- how?
Jul 9, 2023 14:48:00 #
jerryc41 wrote:
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I worked for an Accessibility/Elevator company out of Connecticut that serviced All of CT, MA, RI and New Hampshire. We had to register all of our Vans with Mass. didn’t need to register our Drivers/Techs and didn’t have to put on a Mass license plate. So what that also gave us the ability to purchase the Mass Speedpass which also gave us a discount on the tolls being now not regarded as being from out of state. Saved us lots in tolls each year
Jul 10, 2023 08:18:20 #
Bridges wrote:
If the man was visiting, he didn't live in MA and I would guess his license was from a state other than MA -- so how could they revoke his license -- they wouldn't have the authority to do so. Fine him, yes, but revoke his license -- how?
I wondered that, too, but that's what they said. They said they would notify his home state, too. States are so cooperative when they want to get people in trouble. Fortunately, MA dropped the case. I'd like to know how much that man spent on legal fees and how many sleepless nights he had over the years.
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