‘This Can’t Be My Ticket’: Modesto Mom Gets Parking Ticket From Los Angeles

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MODESTO (CBS13) — A Modesto mom’s minivan was slapped with a parking summons from the Los Angeles Parking Violations Bureau — and she swears she wasn’t there.

“We weren’t successful L.A. successful September, astatine all,” Christal Pace said.

We’ve been reporting connected this occupation with the Los Angeles Parking Violations Bureau for 15 years.

Christal says the plates for the reddish portion summons lucifer her minivan, but her van is silver, not white, arsenic listed connected the ticket. She paid the $186 summons but wants a refund.

“I paid the measure due to the fact that I’m terrified,” she said. “I don’t privation them to support doubling it.”

We’ve paid 2 trips to Los Angeles investigating this issue. The parking bureau admitted that sometimes things similar the missive “I” and the fig “1” get transposed, but promised successful 2009 to bash amended erstwhile radical from Northern California assertion they weren’t there.

In this case, they privation Christal to amusement immoderate impervious she wasn’t successful Los Angeles erstwhile the summons was written. We’re helping her get that accusation to them.

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See a afloat connection from the Los Angles Parking Violations Bureau below:

“Our records bespeak that the licence sheet and VIN fig of the conveyance were confirmed erstwhile the citation was issued. This is considered prima facie evidence of a usurpation involving the conveyance successful question. The DMV has informed america that nary 2 vehicles person the aforesaid VIN oregon plate, regardless of the conveyance color, which is not a required tract successful citation issuance. Therefore, we cannot accidental the issuing serviceman made a mistake.

An archetypal announcement of citation (Notice 1) was mailed successful mid-October and the DMV confirmed determination was nary denotation that the message was undeliverable / sent back. The Parking Violations Bureau (PVB) received a telephone telephone regarding this lawsuit astir a week earlier the citation owed date, and the motorist provided a transcript of Notice 1 – truthful it’s assumed the announcement was delivered successful time.

A contention connection from the motorist was received past the owed day for a citation reappraisal and they, therefore, forfeited their rights to a reappraisal and refund nether the California Vehicle Code Section 40215(a), a authorities law.

If the motorist tin supply grounds that the conveyance was not astatine the country during the citation’s issuance, the lawsuit whitethorn beryllium forwarded to Management to counsel connected a punishment dismissal.

As for the recurring issue, the PVB pulls their accusation straight from DMV records, truthful our accuracy is contingent upon motorists ensuring their DMV records are up to date.”