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I could use some assistance.i sold a car to a Honda dealership 5 yrs ago Last month I received a parking ticket violation for it. I submitted to the court a bill of sale to Honda and the title. The license plate was not mine The hearing officer still found me guilty Broward Florida The ticket is 91 dollars Any help would be appreciated

Legislation introduced in Washington, D.C., would allow certain residents to write out parking tickets to their neighbors. The goal of the omnibus Vision Zero bill, from council member Charles Allen of Ward 6, is to decrease the number of traffic accidents with pedestrians and cyclists. Charles Allen ✔ @charlesallen A few highlights: - Makes some smart changes to our laws, like ending “right on red” and lowering speeds on residential streets to 20 MPH. - Changes the presumption at residential intersections to make them all-way stops. Charles Allen ✔ @charlesallen - Adds substantial fines when contractors & utilities don’t replace...

Parking in Manhattan is difficult enough for limousine, truck and delivery drivers. But they faced an additional challenge this week when New York City rolled out new regulations in the heart of Midtown. Parking and loading is now prohibited on both sides of most blocks between Sixth Avenue and Madison Avenue from 45th Street to 50th Street during morning and evening rush hours, according to a new regulation, which began April 16. The six-month pilot program, called Clear Curbs, is one of several programs launched by the city to combat congestion. In the first three days of the program, officers...

BOSTON -- Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama got more than an education when he attended Harvard Law School in the late 1980s. He also got a healthy stack of parking tickets, most of which he never paid. The Illinois Senator shelled out $375 in January _ two weeks before he officially launched his presidential campaign _ to finally pay for 15 outstanding parking tickets and their associated late fees. The story was first reported Wednesday by The Somerville News. Obama received 17 parking tickets in Cambridge between 1988 and 1991, mostly for parking in a bus stop, parking without a...

His job makes him a target for daily abuse, but this ticket-issuing parking inspector has helped ease the animosity of drivers. In a random act of kindness captured by a Reddit user, Canadian parking official Jim Walton took pity on a motorist who left a desperate note on their car after being locked out on Tuesday. Random act of kindness: Ottawa parking inspector Jim Walton let this motorist off the hook after reading their sob story As shown in a photo of two notes taken byRedditor SpaceMonkey9001, Ottawa parking officer Jim Walton chose not to fine the motorist after reading...

Florida first-grader Brandon Rodriguez is convinced God wants us to be kind. A dinner table conversation prompted him to travel great lengths to accomplish the task. Brandon's dad, Izzy Rodriguez, a native New Yorker, scans the New York Daily News online for information from his hometown. Back in August, when he read about a priest in Brooklyn who was given a parking ticket while administering sacraments to an elderly woman who was dying of the flu at a hospital, Rodriguez was annoyed."Can you believe it?" he told his wife over dinner at their St. Cloud home. "They fined the priest...

Working people frequently ask retired people what they do to make their days interesting. Well, for example, the other day I went down town and went into a shop. I was only in there for about 5 minutes and when I came out there was a cop writing out a parking ticket. I went up to him and said, "Come on, man, how about giving a retired person a break"? He ignored me and continued writing the ticket. I called him a "Nazi turd." He glared at me and started writing another ticket for having worn tires. So I called...

Requesting Freeper expertise. My beloved city choose to illegally tow and store about 100 cars. They lost all of the cases that were challenged including mine. Tow and storage came to $187. I filed for a refund and was informed I could not recover from the municipality unless there was negligent use of my vehicle. (Tort act 101:021-Dallas). Not guilty, no refund. How do I recover my costs?