Traffic Law Question

Your probably getting fined for having valid tags and not having insurance. In Va. its a $500 fine and you can go through a process to appeal the fine but not sure in MD. I have had customers who sold the car and showed proof to DMV and they let them slide. If MD allows an appeal your going to have to show that the car was either sold or not in use. The second one is tough to prove.

As for the stopping coming out of the parking lot. Its an implied law that you must stop or yeild to trafic. If you fail to do so and cause an accident you can be charged with failure to stop or something like that. Even if you do stop your its almost 100% of the time your fault.
does it matter if your not driving? i think up here you can get away with this, as long as your not behind the wheel

Outstanding. I just pwned my wife. Thanks for all the help.

does it matter if your not driving? i think up here you can get away with this, as long as your not behind the wheel

I'm going by Va. laws but I'm sure its about the same in most states and the answer to your question is no. They only look to see if you had valid tags and if you had ins. If you cannot show you have coverage then they fine you. Now you can appeal and in some cases if you can show 100% that the car was off the road they may let you off. The two cases I can think of is a customer had his car at a repair shop when his ins ran out but he got coverage back before driving the car. He used the papper work from the shop and from his insurance co. to show that when the car was parked it had no ins. but that he did have ins when he picked it up. He won his appeal. I had another customer who had his car in HIS garage working on it and let his ins run out. He had receipts to show he was working on the car but did not have a that third party to back him. In his case he lost.

No. Not by technical law. The more general laws of yielding to oncoming traffic and driving safely would apply but only if the actions continued onto the public road. Within a private parking lot though no particular traffic laws can be enforced like they can on public roadways as I understand it.

I had an accident once in a parking lot that was entirely my fault. I didn't get a ticket because it was a private lot. The cop even said when he got to the scene that he couldn't write a ticket. He just handled the situation as a mediator type and made note of the descriptions of the accident for insurance purposes.

What he said...no stop sign, no need to come to a full stop but using caution is advised because main road drivers always have right of way.

Sure if you want to be all smarty pants lawyer I guess

Well, I always try to wear my smarty pants. Except when I can't find them and they become my F'ng pants. (Wouldn't it be great if we could tell when women were wearing their F'ing pants?)

Another sort of unrelated question.

I recently stopped driving and forgot to turn my tags in. I have an outrageous (3000$) fine for not turning them in. Is there anything I can do about this?

It seems ridiculous to charge me 3000$ for something that insignificant. I'm in college and really can't afford that BS.
holy shit

go to court, apologize profusely

Well, I always try to wear my smarty pants. Except when I can't find them and they become my F'ng pants. (Wouldn't it be great if we could tell when women were wearing their F'ing pants?)
:lol::lol::lol:

holy shit

go to court, apologize profusely

I'm betting that is a DMV fine for not having ins. while stll having valid tags and its not a court issue.

Actually, I am pretty sure you can contest it. I think I had a witness do so in one of my cases sometime ago. It was either tags or lack of insurance fine. Call the DMV and see if they will let you submit an affidavit of non-driving. Be sure your insurance is cancelled and you may want to try and cancel it back to the date you stopped driving. Unlikely they will allow that, but they may if you submit an affidavit of stating you have had no accidents and waive any liability from the date forward.

Fines like this are tough. When it comes to this stuff (tags, licenses, insurance) you need to handle things pronto. Otherwise, it will come back to bite you because a lot of these types of fines are statutorily mandatory and the gov. cannot modify them. (The double edged sword of preventing favoritism/abuse v. creating draconian penalties).

Actually, I am pretty sure you can contest it. I think I had a witness do so in one of my cases sometime ago. It was either tags or lack of insurance fine. Call the DMV and see if they will let you submit an affidavit of non-driving. Be sure your insurance is cancelled and you may want to try and cancel it back to the date you stopped driving. Unlikely they will allow that, but they may if you submit an affidavit of stating you have had no accidents and waive any liability from the date forward.

Fines like this are tough. When it comes to this stuff (tags, licenses, insurance) you need to handle things pronto. Otherwise, it will come back to bite you because a lot of these types of fines are statutorily mandatory and the gov. cannot modify them. (The double edged sword of preventing favoritism/abuse v. creating draconian penalties).

The only way we will ever back date coverage on a car is if the owner shows that the car was sold and no longer in their name. An affidavit saying they had no claims is worthless because if something would have happened the customer would have filed a claim.