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Parking your car by backing it into your driveway could soon be illegal in Jacksonville, Florida
Personal Liberty ^ | 6/26/15 | Ben Bullard

Posted on 06/27/2015 3:44:58 PM PDT by Libloather

The city council in Jacksonville, Florida, has taken up a proposal that, if approved, would make it illegal for residents to park their cars in any manner that prevents law enforcement from seeing their rear license plates from the street.

For those who live in single-family homes with off-street parking, such a law would make backing into the driveway to park an illegal act. Florida is among a handful of states that don’t require car owners to display license plates at the front of their cars.

The proposed local bill would also require people who use car covers to figure out a way to make the license plates of covered cars similarly visible.

(Excerpt) Read more at personalliberty.com ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Extended News; Government; News/Current Events; US: Florida
KEYWORDS: cars; driveway; florida; nazi; parking; policestate
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To: Libloather

what about garages


61 posted on 06/27/2015 4:16:12 PM PDT by GeronL
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To: Capt_Hank

Another reason to embrace ‘combat parking’. Well, actually the same reason, getting out of Dodge PDQ.


62 posted on 06/27/2015 4:17:03 PM PDT by Covenantor ("Men are ruled...by liars who refuse them news, and by fools who cannot govern." Chesterton)
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To: Tax-chick
Because it prevents others from driving up the aisles of a parking lot. Backing out is a different action, a single two-point operation without the space constraint of a parking spot, without cars on each side ...

What???? That makes absolutely no sense!

63 posted on 06/27/2015 4:17:26 PM PDT by 2nd amendment mama ( www.2asisters.org | Self defense is a basic human right!)
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To: 2nd amendment mama

It made sense to me, but whatever.


64 posted on 06/27/2015 4:18:19 PM PDT by Tax-chick (You know I don't find this stuff amusing anymore.)
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To: Pollster1

This Oregon Atny gets it:

http://www.oregoninjurylawyerblog.com/2011/02/could_more_backin_parking_redu.html


65 posted on 06/27/2015 4:18:43 PM PDT by CGASMIA68
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To: Capt_Hank

Neighbors of mine were logistics people in US embassies in a couple of volatile African countries. When they retired it took a couple of years for them to stop parking backwards in their own garage.


66 posted on 06/27/2015 4:18:46 PM PDT by Rebelbase
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To: Tax-chick

You do know they are talking about driveways and not parking lots don’t you?


67 posted on 06/27/2015 4:20:15 PM PDT by Starstruck (I'm usually sarcastic. Deal with it.)
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To: Tax-chick

I just find two empty spaces and pull through the first into the second. The only people it ticks off are those who thought the found a spot just as I pull into it.


68 posted on 06/27/2015 4:20:39 PM PDT by Rebelbase
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To: Tax-chick

Actually, that would harm me. Even though I am happily married, I have always had a soft spot for adorable women.


69 posted on 06/27/2015 4:20:52 PM PDT by Pollster1 ("Shall not be infringed" is unambiguous.)
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To: Starstruck

Yes, I do. I made a comment about a different, but somewhat related, action.


70 posted on 06/27/2015 4:20:58 PM PDT by Tax-chick (You know I don't find this stuff amusing anymore.)
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To: Pollster1

Aw, now I feel bad about being gripy!


71 posted on 06/27/2015 4:22:07 PM PDT by Tax-chick (You know I don't find this stuff amusing anymore.)
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To: Rebelbase

That’s okay in a right-angled parking situation, but not diagonal, because then you drive out the wrong way, at least if you’re driving a 747 like I am.


72 posted on 06/27/2015 4:22:57 PM PDT by Tax-chick (You know I don't find this stuff amusing anymore.)
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To: Rebelbase

“it ticks off are those who thought the found a spot just as I pull into it.”
yea and coming from the other direction...nice head on,who’s fault would that one be?


73 posted on 06/27/2015 4:23:27 PM PDT by CGASMIA68
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To: paul544

Just knowing that I had an unlicensed veh behind my house concealed by vegetation and land contours gave one of my neighbors trouble sleeping at night. I have “seasonal” vehicles that dont deserve insurance nor plates for 8 months of the year. Many people hate automobiles and the freedom they can provide.


74 posted on 06/27/2015 4:25:15 PM PDT by Paladin2 (Ive given up on aphostrophys and spell chek on my current device...)
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To: ilovesarah2012

More difficult to tow.


75 posted on 06/27/2015 4:28:05 PM PDT by Paladin2 (Ive given up on aphostrophys and spell chek on my current device...)
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To: Libloather

I’m a recent transplant to MA, and someone told me it is illegal here NOT to back into your driveway if you live on a state road. (My road is so dangerous I wouldn’t dare back out onto it!) The problem is actually due to the fact that some states only have a rear license plate. Perhaps the solution if for all to have both front and rear plates. Someone should sue the state for that if they get cited.


76 posted on 06/27/2015 4:29:18 PM PDT by Wheelman81
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To: CGASMIA68

I back in ... for the children....


77 posted on 06/27/2015 4:31:01 PM PDT by Paladin2 (Ive given up on aphostrophys and spell chek on my current device...)
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To: Know et al
I don't remember the state but they had tags on the front and back.

New York does.

78 posted on 06/27/2015 4:31:05 PM PDT by lysie
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To: marron
If your car is in the garage, no one can see the license plate. So what is the difference?

Home owners will have 60 days to demolish their garage. If they don't do it in that time the State will do it for them? Well, that's one possibility.

79 posted on 06/27/2015 4:33:02 PM PDT by ETL (ALL (most?) of the Obama-commie connections at my FR Home page: http://www.freerepublic.com/~etl/)
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To: Tax-chick

We live in a farming area, seems farmers can almost drive better backwards than forwards. The pickups in parking lots are almost always facing out.


80 posted on 06/27/2015 4:33:37 PM PDT by NorthstarMom (God says debt is a curse and children are a blessing, yet we apply for loans and prevent pregnancy.)
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