private property?

Question

what is considered private property? are parking lots private property? what is public property? if your car dies and you pushed your car in a parking lot to park over night, can you get a ticket for it? what else is considered private property and public property?

Answer 1

I think that the problem is that many people confuse "public property" with "public place." As it has been correctly stated several times here, private property is owned by an individual or a business. Many people will say that Wal-Mart's parking lot is "public property." That is in fact not true. It is a "public place" whereas members of the general public are welcome.

Public property belongs to the taxpayers. Textbook examples are parks, the courthouse, and other government buildings. Even then, you do not have a blank check to do as you wish in those places.

Now to answer your question, yes you can get a ticket or your car can be towed away.

Answer 2

This liberal respects private property. However, I'm under no misguided notion that anyone I pay is my bondservant, or that the (failed in 1929) free market is the solution to all our problems. We were very close to economic slavery then--your boss could kill you and not even owe your family more than the part of your paycheck you earned before you died! A factory in China just killed over 100 people because of no fire exits. That wasn't an isolated disaster--it was just the worst example, but hundreds more have been killed in garment factory fires in the past couple years--it is the way business is done over there. Get rid of a few government restrictions that are 'preventing businesses from making money', and it could be that way here too! So, you can get rid of all these whiny liberal notions like workplace safety, earning a living in exchange for working full time for a company, weekends, and so on. Then if people don't like working there, they can quit. (Wait, cons hate when the slaves, I mean employees, all quit at once, so maybe you should make strikes illegal and force people to work too--wouldn't that be better for the massa, I mean job Creator.) You can keep it up, and someday America will be as great as China. I for one think it is already better than China and want it to stay that way, but conservatives won't be happy until they have given away every right they have except the right to bear arms. I guess they are planning a slave revolt for twenty years from now or something.

Answer 3

Public property is owned by a governmental entity. Private property is owned by any other entitiy.

While private property may, in fact, be accessible to the public, such as a store or its parking lot, it is still private property and the owner can restrict access to an individual.

While public property is ostensibly 'owned' by the public, it still comes under the juridiction of the government entity, and restrictions of that property are regulated by the legislators or executive of that government.

Answer 4

Private property is property that is owned by a person, business, or company. Public property is owned by the city, state, country. Wal-marts parking lot is private. A park is public property.

Answer 5

The above answers do fine at clarifying private versus public, but the parking situation is more complicated than you might think. Public sites, ie government building lots, usually do not allow overnight parking. Cities usually even have rules against leaving your car unmoved for long periods of time on public streets, although overnight will be okay unless otherwise posted.

Oddly, for overnight you would probably be better if you leave your car in a lenient private place. Wal-Mart would probably not tow your car, but the city probably would.

It's a strange world.

Answer 6

Private property is everything not owned by the government.

Public property is that which is owned by the government.

Not all public property can be used by the public or there may be limits to accessing it (e.g., Government centers, city halls and courthouses have only certain hours they are open, military installations are public property but you can't enter them without clearance, parks often have certain hours they are open, etc., etc.).

Answer 7

Public Property is anything owned by the goverment or city. Private is anything owned by a person compnay or corporation. If you push your car in to the parking lot. The owner can have it legaly towed and you have to pay to get it back. Same as if you blocked my drive way.
Parks, sidewalks,Roads and goverments buildings are public property. But Dont tell that to the police if they tell you to leave. They think they own it.

Answer 8

Private property is owned by an individual(s) who use their own money to pay for that property. Public property is paid through taxation and is owned by govt or govt organizations. Then again as long as there are property taxes, no one will truely be able to own that land. Its more like renting it.

Answer 9

It depends on BOTH the statutes & ordinances in your area, as well as the Case Law in your jurisdiction.