My County Won't Take my money! Help needed!

[Razmear]

Usually if you forget your licence at home and get a ticket if you go to court and show that you had a valid license they drop the charge and your done. Ya it will cost you a few hours but it will save you the $115.

Paying with change or otherwise being a prick about it might sound like a good idea until the next time you get pulled over, which will probably be very soon, cuz they will be looking to pay you back for giving them a hassle.

Just go to court, bring your license, and get the case dismissed.
Save the pennies and the games for the tax folks cuz they don't carry guns and patrol your neighborhood.

eb

 

[Knightskye]

Then run for council or Mayor and change the rules, man.

 

[puppetmaster]

Usually if you forget your licence at home and get a ticket if you go to court and show that you had a valid license they drop the charge and your done. Ya it will cost you a few hours but it will save you the $115.

Paying with change or otherwise being a prick about it might sound like a good idea until the next time you get pulled over, which will probably be very soon, cuz they will be looking to pay you back for giving them a hassle.

Just go to court, bring your license, and get the case dismissed.
Save the pennies and the games for the tax folks cuz they don't carry guns and patrol your neighborhood.

eb

there ya go!

 

[jt8025]

Let us know what happens

 

[Jordan]

I have the court date set at 4:30. Hopefully I'll just get the chance to prove I have my license and be done with it, if not I've got a shitload of change I'm ready to dump on them.

 

[Sean]

If it is against US code you should contact the agency incharge of enforcing the code.

 

[Scott38]

http://www.lawfulpath.com/ref/right2travel.shtml

this might be helpful

 

[jt8025]

So what happened?

 

[Aakron]

"Legal Tender Statute" (section 5103 of title 31 of the U.S. Code), "United States coins and currency (including Federal Reserve notes and circulating notes of Federal Reserve banks and national banks) are legal tender for all debts, public charges, taxes, and dues."

-source

Checkmate! Nice one. But you have to be willing to sue if they still refuse.

 

[Sandra]

I think it's pretty crappy to come on these forums and argue a case for 7 pages and then disappear.

 

[fj45lvr]

It has been an easy avenue for protest in Indiana. Check out here:

http://www.redorbit.com/news/oddities/1033920/man_pays_big_tax_bill_in_coins_1_bills/index.html

This year he paid in all coins.

But my city apparently wont take change unless its wrapped. I didn't know wrapping it was required to make it legal tender.

just wrap it up but don't bother to Count it just stuff it in tubes "willy nilly" ....the counting is their JOB (not yours).

You might be able to have a courier deliver it in a box and make them sign for it.

 

[mconder]

It is legal tender and good for all debts public and private. I don't think anyone can specify the increments that they receive payment in.

 

[Live_Free_Or_Die]

nt

 

[Jordan]

I'm back, I didn't disappear.

At any rate I went to the initial hearing and they told me that my maximum penalty for my ticket is $500. At that point I'm unwilling to play the odds, my ticket as of now is just $115.50. Had the maximum been the same I would have requested a trial of my peers which would unlikely never happen.

Now I've got time to do some planning. I have until April 22 and have plenty to time to plan this out.

 

[rpfan2008]

I got a traffic ticket, stupid ridiculous ticket I should have never gotten.

Anyway, I went in to pay it with $115.50 in all change, every last cent of it. And guess what?

They wouldn't take it.

The lady said it had to be rolled. I asked for paperwork or some statute that makes coinage that is not rolled nontender. No dice.

They must know how worthless the dollar is know.

Anyway, I'm going back on Monday but I'm going to be armed and ready. I need sources, citations, something to tell them that "you're going to take my money and I'm not rolling it for you."

Any help, I live in Indiana BTW.

LOL man that's hilarious XD

I remember a news piece where a man was jailed for a day or something for doing the same !! but nonetheless he was a news XD

 

[Jordan]

You people throw around the word sue like its some simple procedure to get the government to constrain itself to the law.

In reality you would likely have to file a writ of certiorari.

But you don't need to file. They already refused to accept your payment. Did you document the evidence? That is all you need to do so when they come after you again for failure to pay you already have your defense and you win.

Thanks for the response. The problem is when defending myself I'm going to be paying a hell of a lot of money to get out of a ticket worth a fraction of the cost.

 

[Scott38]

When you show up to defend yourself, ask the county attorney to show a Power of Attorney giving them legal right to act for your county (assuming your county is incorporated, most have been). When he/she can't produce it and THEY WON'T BE ABLE TO, ask the judge immediately to dismiss the case, because there is no one present who has power of attorney to represent said county on your case document.

They are snakes, so be careful. Hold your ground. The case can not move forward unless you allow it to and accept the attorney as having the right to represent the county. You have the power, use it!!!

Good luck

 

[Malakai]

In this case I think you are being silly. Take the change to a bank where a machine will count it lol. Or an onstar machine.

I would turn down people wanting to pay for big purchases in all change, sorry but I don't always have time to sit and count out 20 bucks in small change.

You want to stick it to the man, I feel ya. But trying to force some couple-dollar-an-hour city employee to count out 120 bucks in change is not doing that at all. Like the peter schiff for senate people, go do something that will actually yield some kind of return. Pass out pamphlets at a mall or something!

 

[Live_Free_Or_Die]

nt

 

[Live_Free_Or_Die]

nt