Do you live in a blue state? If so, it’s not surprising. Either way, that sucks.
Where are you located? City/state?
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Hire a lawyer.
Lot more info would be helpful. Such as location, state, city, who gave the ticket, etc. I suspect if it’s a legal ticket signed by an officer then you’d best answer the summons.
Let me guess....you live in a blue portion of a blue state.
Do you have deed restrictions on the lot where you own your home?
Do you live in an area with a Home Owners’ Association? They make some pretty Stalinesque rules. Were you in the city’s right-of-way, even though in front of your house?
Would think you’d get a warning first.
Local ordinances - check ‘em out.
No one parks on their lawns in my neighborhood.
Some places it is legal. It was probably enacted to prevent people from leaving junk cars on their front yard. In one town I lived in, it was illegal to park your car overnight on the street in front of your house. It had to be parked in the driveway.
Parking on the grass is an environmental codes violation in Metro Nashville. Fifty-buck fine here, too.
Life in blue America today. Ain’t it sweet?
Maryland is a crazy, leftist state.
The only thing I can think of that might justify such a ticket is that in most states there is a public right-of-way that extends from the center of the road a certain distance into your yard. In Vermont, I think it’s 25 feet from the center of a class 3 road like the one we’re on.
There’s no rule here about parking on your own grass, but it is technically a public right-of-way. Probably the same or similar in Maryland.
Then there’s the whole crazy business of zoning laws, which can regulate what is allowed to be on a lawn. No clothes lines allowed, for instance, in many housing areas, although clothes lines are a good way to save energy.
The ticket must cite an ordanance that’s been violated....??
It’s a city by city thing. Sometimes neighborhood by neighborhood.
I’ve never heard of not being able to park on the grass, but I’ve heard of not being allowed to park on the street, or not being allowed to park in such a way that your car blocks pedestrians from walking on the sidewalk. This means that if your car is in your driveway but a pedestrian on the sidewalk must walk around your car to get from the sidewalk on the left of your driveway to the sidewalk on the right of your driveway...you are in violation. You don’t actually have to be parked on the sidewalk to get busted for this violation.
Some neighborhoods won’t even let you park in your own driveway PERIOD. You MUST park in your garage.
Was your car parked on cinder blocks?
With all due respect, parking in a front lawn for any period of time will trash up a neighborhood. I don’t have any idea about your situation, but in most cases the rule makes a lot of sense and reflects a common courtesy that should be extended whether or not there is an ordinance prohibiting it. I am surprised you weren’t given a warning though.