Traffic Law Question

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Originally Posted by RobH4413

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.

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.