im doing construction there and dont feel i should pay
am i valid?
2006-09-04 16:58:29 · 12 answers · asked by Anonymous in Politics & Government ➔ Law Enforcement & Police
its visitor parking,
i can but a month pass for like 75 bucks
2006-09-04 17:07:36 · update #1
Each university has thier own rules, in some schools the tickets are given to a collection agency and they will report it on your credit report, In others if they catch your car again after oweing a certain amount they impound your car or put a boot on it.
So you face alot more cost if you don't
2006-09-05 01:56:47 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
That is a very tough situation because by working on one of the construction projects, technically you are not violating the purposes of the campus parking regulations. When I was a contractor I often had to come on the campus to unload my tools and equipment and then park in a lot that was a mile away from the actual jobsite so I had to adjust my pricing accordingly.
First of all you must establish what the rules are as a contractor. The university police dept. is required to tell you what the rules are and they are required to give you guidelines on where you are allowed to park. You cannot go under the assumption that you are allowed to park close to the job site simply because you are a contractor. Sometimes you might have to come to the job site during hours when parking restrictions do not apply in order to be able to set up your equipment on the site.
Secondly you might want to invest in a rolling locker often referred to as a "Job Box" or a "Site Box" which is essentially a large container for the purpose of securely storing your tools and supplies on the jobsite making it more convenient to park longer distances away if that is your only option. You can arrive on the jobsite empty handed and go home the same way without worrying about your tools being stolen.
Third, you are better off paying the tickets. Most universities use parking fines as a cash cow for their security and/or police departments. Their appeal process is so slanted most times that they even warn you upfront that you are most likely to lose your case. Even though it might be unfair, parking tickets just come with the territory. Where I live UPS and FedEx trucks get tickets all of the time. But the drivers often accept that as a minimal expense for keeping their deliveries on schedule because its more convenient to park illegally to deliver the package than to find a legal parking spot and then spend 20 minutes delievering the package.
2006-09-04 17:13:58 · answer #2 · answered by Joe K 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
If you were valid, you wouldn't have a parking ticket!
If you are doing contract work, you need to get some sort of service permit from the person managing your contract. It isn't the parking people's fault you don't have one... they have no way of knowing that you are doing construction.
Its nice that you don't feel you should pay. It also doesn't matter. If you don't pay, you may have a consequence down the road or you may not. Usually if you don't pay a parking ticket you'll have problems re-registering your car. However, sometimes the ticket never goes that far. It depends on local and state laws, and how serious the parking department on that university is.
2006-09-04 17:06:45 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
You need to talk to the university cops about that. If your construction Co. paid for parking then you need a tag & must know where to park. Here in Colorado at CSU everybody has to pay to park even the handicap. If you do have to pay they might drop all or some of the tickets if you buy a parking pass. Good luck, the CSU cops are not so nice, it's a power trip with them. You never know if you don't ask.
2006-09-04 17:09:12 · answer #4 · answered by ancestorhorse 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
you parked in a zone that was clearly marked no parking (or sticker required or whatever, you knew it was restricted)
you did not get permission ahead of time to ignore those signs because of the work you were doing
you chose to park there even after you had been ticketed (you reference tickets plural)
everybody thinks they have a reason to park where the rules say they can't (they were in a hurry, they hurt their foot, they are just as important as the professors, etc)
seems like you knew you were being ticketed and kept doing it without arranging some exception ahead of time, sounds like you have no excuse
2006-09-04 17:03:09 · answer #5 · answered by enginerd 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
sometimes you can take it to the place where you have to pay and explain to them what happened if you are working there. I did that-- I wasn't construction but I don't see how it would be any different. this was in Miami University so, I don't know if they are all the same.
2006-09-04 17:00:24 · answer #6 · answered by awesome_eo 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Nope, not valid. Just because you work there does not give you the right to break the rules.
2006-09-04 17:04:00 · answer #7 · answered by srrsmr 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No. Pay and start parking your car where it belongs.
2006-09-04 17:36:26 · answer #8 · answered by Matt S 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
why dont you take it to your supervisor, he might be able to do something about it. I have seen it done where i work.
but if you park where you are not supposed, then the correct thing is TO PAY!!!
2006-09-04 17:00:17 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
NOPE! Either pay the tickets or walk to where you are working!
2006-09-04 17:00:09 · answer #10 · answered by sglmom 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋