Can we petition a traffic/parking citation improperly cited a couple of years after we paid for it?
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Can we petition a traffic/parking citation improperly cited a couple of years after we paid for it?
My dad received a parking citation for parking his company truck outside our home overnight on a residential street, but I recently found out from neighbors who received traffic citations in front of our house for illegal maneuvers not allowed on business streets. So our street is actually a business street and not a residential like I always thought, and we shouldn’t have had been cited and have had to pay over a hundred dollars. But most importantly and why we want to petition and have it removed from his record, is that he can get fired from his work for acquiring too many citations.
Asked on July 24, 2012 under General Practice, California
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FreeAdvice Contributing Attorney / FreeAdvice Contributing Attorney
Answered 11 years ago | Contributor
Your father can petition the parking ticket that he paid for sveral years ago to have it removed from his driving record but most likely the time to file such a petition is time barred by your state's statute of limitations on the subject.
Since the ticket was a parking ticket as opposed to a ticket for speeding, running a stop light and the like, the ticket is not for a moving vehicle violation. As such, the parking ticket should have no impact on your father's driving record.
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