Recently, I was selling my car and to help with the sale, I put some
"For Sale" signs in my car windows. I live in an apartment complex that
has limited parking, so I parked my car outside of the complex on a
city street where can LEGALLY park at any time of day or night. In
fact, I have parked my car there many times before. Anyway, the next
thing I know, there’s a ticket on my car. Apparantly, there’s a
law that says you can’t park a car with "For Sale" signs on a city
street. This was a $55.00 ticket!!!!
Has anyone ever heard of this before? I’m in San Jose, California,
so this could just be a County law or something. I was thinking
of going to court to fight this, but what can I possibly say.
Ignorance of the law is not an excuse, right? I’m anxious
to hear what any of you would do or if any one of you has
ever heard of this.
Thanks.
Linda
lin…@netcom.com
Illegal to display a For Sale sign?!? Sure if the county really needs
money, I guess that’s one way to get money.
Is a way, doesn’t that violate your freedom of speach?
– Jason
In article <x88nh7-.lin…@netcom.com>, lin…@netcom.com writes:
|> Recently, I was selling my car and to help with the sale, I put some
|> "For Sale" signs in my car windows. I live in an apartment complex that
|> has limited parking, so I parked my car outside of the complex on a
|> city street where can LEGALLY park at any time of day or night. In
|> fact, I have parked my car there many times before. Anyway, the next
|> thing I know, there’s a ticket on my car. Apparantly, there’s a
|> law that says you can’t park a car with "For Sale" signs on a city
|> street. This was a $55.00 ticket!!!!
|>
|> Has anyone ever heard of this before? I’m in San Jose, California,
|> so this could just be a County law or something. I was thinking
|> of going to court to fight this, but what can I possibly say.
|> Ignorance of the law is not an excuse, right? I’m anxious
|> to hear what any of you would do or if any one of you has
|> ever heard of this.
|>
|> Thanks.
|>
|> Linda
|> lin…@netcom.com
They just passed an ordinance where I live (Mentor, OH — about 25 mi. E. of
Cleveland — no condolences, please) prohibiting multiple ‘FOR SALE’ signs
on cars even if they’re in your own yard/driveway. I think you’re allowed
to sell one car from your property in a certain time period (I forget what
the time period was — perhaps 6 mos.). It also includes other signs on cars
that could be construed as ‘billboards.’ The city population is 50-75k.
Apparently, they want to curb ‘used car lots’ on private property and people
advertising for their restaurant by purchasing some heap of junk, slapping
a sign on it, and parking/dragging it somewhere where it will be seen. They’re
starting to get much more conscious about the city’s image now and have passed
other interesting laws such as making it extremely difficult to cut down a
tree in your yard (over 1" diameter trunk).
-Andy
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Typically, the ordinance prohibits display of a For Sale sign beyond so
many hundred yards from the owner’s residence. It is intended, I’m told,
to stop a certain category of public nuisance: the corner or vacant lot
that somehow turns into a de factor for-sale-by-owner used-car lot.
Enforcement tends to be extremely sporadic in most places, which is why
so many people never seem to have heard of such a thing. Unless you
were doing the above, it’s a real chickenstuff ticket, albeit one that
will probably be upheld if you try to fight it.
TANJ,
–Joe
"Just another personal opinion from the People’s Republic of Berkeley"
Stupid, but probably true. My neighbor in Sunnyvale got the same ticket
for leaving his car on the street in front of his house with a for sale
sign.
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