Can VA ticket you for expired DC tags?
10-24-2006, 02:09 PM
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Racer
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Can VA ticket you for expired DC tags?
Too busy messing around with the rollbar this weekend to replace my dc sticker in the windshield. Come back from lunch to discover a $40 ticket. Further, it seems as though their stupid ticket devices aren't equipped to write up dc tags as it shows the expiration date as 10/2006, when the ticket was clearly written up on 10/24/06. As I recall, in VA, the tags are good through the end of the month. PLus I thought there was a grace period.
Do I have a case here? I'm just annoyed right now.
Do I have a case here? I'm just annoyed right now.
10-24-2006, 02:30 PM
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When exactly does your DC Sticker expire?
Originally Posted by 996 Convert
Too busy messing around with the rollbar this weekend to replace my dc sticker in the windshield. Come back from lunch to discover a $40 ticket. Further, it seems as though their stupid ticket devices aren't equipped to write up dc tags as it shows the expiration date as 10/2006, when the ticket was clearly written up on 10/24/06. As I recall, in VA, the tags are good through the end of the month. PLus I thought there was a grace period.
Do I have a case here? I'm just annoyed right now.
Do I have a case here? I'm just annoyed right now.
10-24-2006, 03:34 PM
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Yup. They can ticket you. You're essentially driving around Virginia in an unregistered vehicle (expired registration). The same thing happened to me -- I got pulled over on Constitution Ave. in D.C. because of expired VA tags. Fortunately, they let me off on a warning.
Get your registration renewed and do one of two things:
Get your registration renewed and do one of two things:
- pay the $40 ticket and forget about it -- it is not a moving violation so no points.
- go to court and show proof that you've renewed your registration and they will usually drop the charges -- not worth your time in my opinion.
10-24-2006, 05:00 PM
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HA! Also, I don't like that you called the ticket device "stupid", it's not it's fault you wanted to be racer X.. 
Originally Posted by 996 Convert
10/21/06
Dammit. I already have the renewed registration. I will photocopy it and contest the ticket by mail.
Dammit. I already have the renewed registration. I will photocopy it and contest the ticket by mail.
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10-24-2006, 05:15 PM
#8
Drifting
Originally Posted by 996 Convert
Ha ha. I think the ticket device is a pig 
I guess I should have said incompetent since it cannot input the day of expiration.
I guess I should have said incompetent since it cannot input the day of expiration.
10-24-2006, 06:01 PM
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Racer
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There is a date on the sticker. It doesn't show up on the ticket so I was going to contest it since according to the ticket, it has not expired yet. Stupid argument, yes, but worth a try maybe.
