Not where I live. The Council always wants more money, so they check all vehicles on council parking spaces for warrant and rego issuing a ticket if they find anything expired. The constabulary may consider compliance, the council don't.
One little ray of sunshine, two people I worked with who received tickets for expired warrants, wrote to the council pointing out that the vehicle was legally parked and as such the council had no right to check further and in doing so the council staff had breached the Privacy Act. It worked both times.
There is a grey blur, and a green blur. I try to stay on the grey one. - Joey Dunlop
Mainly just around the city district here at the moment.
Another ... I got a ticket ... how do I get off it Thread.
(1) If you parked in a free parking area ... odds are ... Auckland parking probably wouldn't look at it. Did you overstay the time limit .. ??
(2) You say it "Got Pinged" for $200. Did you get the ticket .. left on the seat ?? A witness or security camera footage of you receiving the "Ticket" might not be in your favour.
(3) Vehicle records go back further than the "early 2000's" (and will be in the system). If you intend to register it in the future ... Vin/chassis/engine/rego number (proof it Was previously registered in NZ) will be required to re-register it. Start cooking up a good story about when (and how) it came into your possession.
And I am surprised it didn't get "Towed" ... and/or impounded. A newbie traffic parking ticket writer probably.
A "Real man" would suck it up and pay the fine. YOU own it ... you parked it up ... your problem.
When life throws you a curve ... Lean into it ...
The revenue split is what makes it attractive for councils to run parking departments. If the council made no money from parking they couldn't afford a parking department.
As much as we all bag them, its necessary, as people can behave however they want if not held to account.
Well we could do with some here as there seems to be no rules when it comes to parking - utes parked overnight on wrong side of road near intersection, cars parked across the driveway entrance and blocking the footpath, cars on the footpath parallel to the street and completely blocking the footpath etc etc.
And yet we find people complaining about mobility scooters driving out onto the road to get around a vehicle parked across the footpath...
Winding up drongos, foil hat wearers and over sensitive KBers for over 14,000 posts...........
" Life is not a rehearsal, it's as happy or miserable as you want to make it"
Well ... funny you should say that. Most people that park in 10 minute parking areas and similar ... like knowing there isn't a council parking warden on the prowl and simply ignore any time limits. (Alexandra doesn't have one either) All well and good ... until it's THEM that needs a park. A different story then ...
Go figure ..
When life throws you a curve ... Lean into it ...
It all goes back a few years.
In the early 1900s councils had their own traffic departments, as the government had a police force, but no national traffic department. As cars became more numerous, the demand for regulation of traffic grew. Eventually, the government set up a traffic department, we knew it as the Ministry of Transport.
Fines were how the various councils funded their traffic departments. For example, for stationary offences the revenue went 90% to council, 10% to central government. For mobile offences e,g, seatbelts, the split was 60% to council, 40% to central government. In this way councils funded their own departments.
Many towns kept their own traffic departments, and anywhere there wasn't one, the MoT had responsibility for traffic matters. When an MoT officer wrote a ticket, the fine went 100% to central government. Over time, cities gave control over to the MoT, as the cost of running their own departments grew beyond the income generated.
When I joined Auckland City Traffic in 1988 as a traffic cop, there were 5 cities left with their own traffic departments. Auckland, Tamaki, Mt Albert,. Napier and Invercargill.
Prebble had a plan to merge the Police with a traffic department, and it was always going to be easier to merge one department with Police. So they adjusted the revenue split, and the last 5 councils merged with the MoT in October 1990. Months later, the Police took over the MoT.
Many cities retained their parking function, due to the higher revenue split making it affordable to do so.
Before the Police integration 1 July 1992, the councils could tell their traffic departments what to do, and it was done. Now, councils have very liuttle influence over what Police do. So if a resident has a parking issue with, say, someone parking in a bad place outside a school, yellow lines etc, and there is no local parking department, the Police get called, and are usually too busy or too disinterested to do anything. Cops don't want to write parking tickets, it's beneath them.
It's how we got to where we we are. Eventually there'll be a move to go back to cities having their own departments, over and above parking. But nobody wants to admit it. I gather that Auckland Transport has some enforcement powers like we used to have as traffic cops. Some cities have cameras for bus lane offences. Speed cameras are reverting to NZTA, since Police have shown that they would prefer to be popular than effective.
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