i received a $50 parking ticket in the mail from the city of chicago. i live in denver and was driving a rental. i intend to pay the $50, but would not paying the ticket affect me down the road? do cities have that much interest in recouping tickets from out of staters?
just wondering.
busted but not broke wrote:
i received a $50 parking ticket in the mail from the city of chicago. i live in denver and was driving a rental. i intend to pay the $50, but would not paying the ticket affect me down the road? do cities have that much interest in recouping tickets from out of staters?
just wondering.
Short answer: Yes they definitely do. You might have been able to get away with this 10 years ago. Now the odds are slim to none.
Pay the ticket now or it WILL pop up sometime down the road at an inconvenient time.
dont pay. next time park at the new target store that opened up a few years ago. other than that, stay away from fat blob towns like chicago.
If the ticket is for your car, then you can ignore it and would be totally fine. But, since it is a rental, in the contract it says you are obligated to pay any ticket. So, just to get out of trouble, you'd better just pay the $50 and be done with it. Or you can wait to see what the car rental company will do to you and then make a determination - there could be a 20% penalty later on.
LHS wrote:
If the ticket is for your car, then you can ignore it and would be totally fine. But, since it is a rental, in the contract it says you are obligated to pay any ticket. So, just to get out of trouble, you'd better just pay the $50 and be done with it. Or you can wait to see what the car rental company will do to you and then make a determination - there could be a 20% penalty later on.
Actually no, you would likely not be be "totally fine" if the ticket is for your car. Parking ticket reciprocity laws are becoming more common as states hook up databases to each other. A parking ticket you get in Texas can show up on your California DMV, a ticket you get in New York can show up on your Jersey DMV, etc.
The era of merely skipping out on these things is over. And not only will you have to pay the value of the ticket you will usually have to pay substantial penalties.
So, seriously, this is a ticket from 11 months ago and you are just getting it in the mail now? Actually, that does sound like Chicago city bureaucracy.
Where did he say said it was 11 months ago? He didn't mention any time period at all.
from nothing wrote:
Where did he say said it was 11 months ago?
Maybe the part in the title of the thread where it says: 2006 chicago marathon parking ticket.
Brian Brain wrote:
Maybe the part in the title of the thread where it says: 2006 chicago marathon parking ticket.
Oh, duh. Sorry. Forest for the trees and all that.
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