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.
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It is dangerous to back out into a street. Just get a front plate issued. Oh, sorry, that would have taken intelligence to figure that out.
I live in Jacksonville.
The proposal was advanced by Warren A. Jones, a 20+ year member of the City Council.
I don’t back into my drive-way but, should this bill pass, I will start doing so the very next morning.
And, since we only have to have a rear tag on our vehicles in Florida, I’ll be sure to have an Army of Northern Virginia battle flag plate in the front bracket for all the world to see.
License plate readers bring more revenue into the city coffers. They are just
looking for plates that owe fines, etc. Nothing different than the cruzing parking
lots reading plates.
So to really pi$$ ‘em off, park your car in the drive like they want you to but take the plate off when you get home. Don’t put it back until the morning right before you leave for work (Just remember to put it back on before you get back on the public roads).
I predict a lot of pulldown shades on awnings and overhangs to block the plates. This is ridiculous. Now oyu will need to block plates just for personal privacy on your own property.
I would have everyone defy the law and sue the city out of existence. I’d also start recall actions on all officials that vote for it.
“I don’t remember the state but they had tags on the front and back.”
Illinois and most Midwest states.
“I don’t remember the state but they had tags on the front and back.”
Illinois and most Midwest states.
Same way at the visitors parking lot overlooking the caldera at Masaya Volcano south of Managua, Nicaragua.
"Visitors will leave the park NOW!" (she's fixin' ta BLOW!)
Some years back, a contract programming buddy of mine said that the cops patrolled the parking lot of the company he was working at, checking tags. They must have kept records, for if you were there more than 30 days, they fined you for not registering the car in Florida as a resident.
“Parking your car by backing it into your driveway could soon be illegal in Jacksonville, Florida”
It only becomes illegal if so-called conservatives refuse to get off their fat asses and throw every city councilmen off the city government. If you can’t accomplish that simple task, than you peckerheads deserve every misery visited upon you by 125-lb bed-wetting, liberal wimps.
Isn’t backing out onto a street illegal?
Potential SCOTUS nominee.
If you have visitors, their #'s will also be scanned. Lots of data on vehicles/owners and will show who's there, who might be associated or visits that address etc.
This data is used and kept for future references. They're tying all these systems together. If you owe taxes, fees, fines, judgements or whatever, they'll know it.
Wished I had one.
If a car is on private property it is of no business of anyone. Your car only needs tags if it is on a public road.
Silly peasant. There is no private property. Everything you do is at the mercy of the State. Now go eat your kale and say three “hail Michelle’s”. ;-)
“If a car is on private property it is of no business of anyone. Your car only needs tags if it is on a public road.”
There was a time when this nation had a written Constitution, a contract between the people and government, defining limits on action by government. The literal text of the Fourth Amendment would have applied to this situation and government would have understood it could not force citizens to convey information without a warrant issued by a judge based on probable cause. Of course today we have a “living Constitution” where government officials can interpret the meaning of words and even redefine words, or infer meanings, if its suits their purpose. For those who remember the days when the actual meaning of the words was respected, here is the actual text of the 4th Amendment:
“The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no Warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by Oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized.”
We should use capricious government actions such as the one proposed for Jacksonville as teaching moments for our children and grandchildren who have been taught by public schools and the media that freedom is all about sexual expression.
It’s nothing to do with getting out quickly; it’s about getting out SAFELY. My wife got CREAMED backing SLOWLY out of a parking space when some girl in a Lexus came rippin through the parking lot at 25mph and dang near ripped the back end off the car.
BUT, the errant girl was NOT LEGALLY AT FAULT because she got just far enough that her front end didn’t hit the side of our car; the back end of our car hit the side of hers.
THAT technicality, and the grief it causes should have just about everybody backing into parking places wherever they’re not diagonal. You’ll never get rooked by that technicality backing into a parking slot, and you’ll always have better visibility getting out, which always makes for a safer exit.
It’s not illegal to have an unregistered vehicle parked off the street. If you’re not driving it, and it ain’t parked on the public thoroughfare, it could sit in your driveway and ROT; you never need to register it again as long as you live.
LOL. Good one.
This is complete bs for private property. Public parking lots with hour limits and meter maid coverage are the only legitimate reason to prevent backing in when cars only have rear plates (because meter maid needs to document which license plates are overstaying the limit).
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