Ripping mad

HarleyB......I sent u a PM .

http://assembly.state.ny.us/leg/?bn=A04433&term=&Summary=Y&Actions=Y&Votes=Y&Memo=Y&Text=Y

Be careful what you complain about, I would love to license my 2010 Chev. 1 ton for $145, I think I paid $480 this year and that was down from $515 last year.

We had refuge from that in Texas, but that stuff is creeping in, although Texas is still Texas, and a lawmaker fining people for one ton pickups would be shown the door in a recall election, even if some of the pickups have not seen anything heavier in the bed than oak pollen.

I know what you mean just got my renewal form for my licence plate, car $82.00 and the truck $142.00 for the year. The extra's we pay just to carry our camper.

Paul

Someone in your area must have called and complained, the towns on Long Island don,t have the manpower to send out people to write violations, but they have to respond to a complaint.

Ken

They pull that kind of BS in California also. Ask me how I know.

Bob in Calif.

Harleybullet wrote:
I have a 3500 Ram new since 99 and have parked it in front of my house for 13 years.... it has commercial plates because of weight.... most of the people on the block have used from time to time and it looks like any other pickup.

I got a $250 summons for parking overnight bececause of the plate.... boy some laws are just crap!!!! No signage, never used commercially...ugh I could just scream

Dave Long Island NY

Thats NY state for you!. Any Pick-up is plated commercial, even a little Ranger! But that of course doesn't help with your locality.

Well! By cutting the length of time the "Yellow" traffic light stays yellow by 0.3 seconds generated an additional BILLION dollars from traffic tickets revenue for Florida. I guess they were just doing it to slow the traffic down.:R

btggraphix wrote:
Long Island has been doing it for a long time. Family members of mine lost their farmland in the late 40's that they had bought from the Matinicock Indians in the 1600's.....after they got surrounded by mansions (like JP Morgan's niece) and got taxed into oblivion. Can't have smelly cows next to those fine folks!

Good luck. That's pretty cra ppy.

What is the rest of the story? Did they actually "lose" the property, or did they sell it for a handsome profit? If it had been in the family since the 1600s, little chance they still owed a mortgage to the Indians. Doubt the land values fell below the 27 beads they gave the poor Indians in exchange for the property. If the land was surrounded by JP Morgan's relatives and the like, it probably had significant value. Were they so arrogant they just refused to pay the property taxes the rest of us have to pay? Did it come out that those long ago ancestors swindled the Indians and the government awarded it back to them?
As for the original post, unfortunately the interests of individuals often do not coincide. Usually the laws prohibiting commercial vehicles are passed due to some neighborhoods starting to look like giant billboards do to all the trucks with their signage. Most people don't want to look out their front windows and see the street lined with advertisements for killing bugs, delivering pizzas and handy numbers to reach a bail bondsman at a moment's notice. Some far sighted business people even have taken to parking their mobile billboards in strategic locations to gather the most eyeballs possible. A law such as the OP ran afoul of is the easiest way for a town to combat the issue. These laws are also almost exclusively enforced on a complaint basis. The odds are one of the OPs neighbors called and complained.
I think if the OP went to court with some photos and argued his case, he will probably win or at least be given a reprieve and told not to do it again. Then again, the judge may be the one who called the violation in, so like all court cases, nothing is black and white.

The problem is, it's *NOT* revenue. $250 can't possibly be enough to pay for the time of the person that wrote the ticket, the clerk that mailed the ticket, the judge who will hear your case, the bailiff that stands there while you plead your case, the stenographer who writes it all down, and the dozens of other people who touch the paperwork involved in this one simple ticket.... Not to mention the upkeep on the facilities they work in, health benefits, the patrol car...