Impounded for past due registration? (CA)

Good point. I say the owners.

 

This has been CA law for MANY years and is definitely in the C.V.C. At 6 months past due, it can simply be impounded whilst parked on the street, prior to that... it's actually at the discretion of the officer. http://www.leginfo.ca.gov/cgi-bin/displaycode?section=veh&group=03001-04000&file=4000-4023

 

I know this post is from 2013 but Wisconsin has had a $10 late fee for many years unless it's a truck registered at over 8,000 lbs.

 

That's some cl***ic ****, man. You join today and your first post is in a 3 1/2 year old thread!? Freakin' cl***ic!

 

Seems to me if the registration is expired then the insurance won't be valid since the car is being illegally driven. Fair enough reason to have it towed right there.

 

Great observation! HRP

 

Just bored, man.

 

Your buddy didn't get " hosed ".
He parked a vehicle that had an expired registration on a public street.
It got towed.
That's what happens.


Jim

 

WOW!!! What a thread. But I'm pleased to announce the "Silver State" of Nevada has, over the years copied most very DMV reg / rule / law / infraction that is / was / could be implemented in Cal. Not that way when I left here, now it's a whole different story.

 

The lesson to be learned here is this.
No matter what an individual does ( such as not paying his registration fees ), that same individual should never be held accountable or responsible for his own actions.
In short time, the word "responsible" will be omitted / removed from the dictionary.
We are now living in a society of the "non-responsible".

 

Read the California motor vehicle laws. They can impound your vehicle for it smoking a bit. Some of the motor vehicle laws of California call for the impounding of vehicles. It is our lucky self's that they do not impound for every infraction that they are supposed to impound for. It's the officer's discretion to impound or not unless there is a zero tolerance given out on certain dates. Which they do.

CVC22651(0)(1),(A) shows that a motor vehicle can be impounded after six months of non registration but guess what? It can still be towed after one day depending on state and local statutes and regulations. And I have never had second thoughts of doing this. Then again, there is a zero tolerance on any military reservation.

A motor vehicle can and will be towed when it is operated or parked on any public street or public en***y when the registration is lacking because it can be considered as abandoned.

Your buddy got his car impounded for one of those reasons. It was parked on a public street. It's not a racket as a couple have said on here. It's life. Your buddy should have had the registration to date and he wouldn't have had the vehicle impounded. Not the Police Dept's fault like a couple of HAMBer's have said.

If I were to rant, it would be about the scofflaw's who try to cir***vent the law and then whine when they are caught and about the idiots who talk **** about my state and it's laws and those who enforce those laws.

 

Read the ******** date on the OP's original post guys. That happend three and a half years ago.

 

One thing I've wondered about, is the history of this "registration" of vehicles. Were horse and wagons ever licensed (plates) or registered or taxed and such? Were automobiles subject to annual registration from the start? To my way of thinking "registration" should be a one time deal.

 

HOLY ****! It's possessed! No wonder it won't die.

Should I leave my post on it or delete it? Hell, I'll leave it.

I've never been to the Twilight Zone until now....

 

Old thread, so what.

Cops in CA are like Mr. Rogers compared to here.

My sister and I owned a Dodge Dart together here in Boston in the 80's. She hit a patch of ice one night, smashed the front left fender. Got a tow, parked it in front of her apartment building. A couple days later it got towed by the Boston Police. (happened all the time), so we went down to the tow yard to pay the $125 fee. They took the money, gave us the plates back then informed us that the car had been crushed already, the cops told us to F- off and get the F out.

Another time there was an officer who was a dude that weighed 300 lbs, 6 1/2 feet tall, I was giving him a hard time about a parking ticket he just gave me, (I was being a punk-***), He head****ed me so hard that I was laying on the ground unconscious for a minute. I looked up at him leaning over me, he said "got anything else to say?" I said "no sir, officer sir"

Another time my, girlfriend and I got pulled over in the middle of nowhere on my motorcycle. Broken tail light. The cops took the plate off the bike and the keys, said "weeeya ***min back heeyahh in one owah, you and this bike bettah be gone or weeya gonna impound it and put youse in jail fow tha nite." This was before cell phones but I got to a payphone quick and called my boss in the middle of the night and he came and got us with his cube truck.

That's how they handle things heeyah in Bahstin.

 

^ Haha east coast ********. Love it

 

Must be the only place in North America that DOESNT. And around here, after the cops got their kickback from the tow yard, the tow yard would strip the speed equipment off your car while it was in their impound, with impunity. Ask me how I know this.
10' chain link fence with razor wire, dogs and camera, "Oh, someone must have got in here, not our responsibility..." Gotta wonder if one of the cops had a Mopar he needed some stuff for...

 

They sure get kick backs from the tow companies in Seattle, Daughter got pulled over for being a car load of white kids in the wrong neighborhood in the middle of the night (3rd and Jackson) and pulled into a private lot. Cop made her pull the car out and park it on the street and then proceeded to make 4 teen age kids walk after he had the car impounded because she had had her license suspended for not paying a ticket. No one else in the car had a license.
I had to send my dad the money to get the car out of impound after we found it. Worse part was that the car was in an impound lot less than a mile from where the kids needed to be out in the north end.

 

Yes, wagons were registered. They just didn't have plates until around the 1890's or so.

License plates predate automobiles
By Paula Allen

Updated 11:24 pm, Saturday, September 1, 2012
While we ***ociate license plates with automobiles, they were around long before carriages went horseless. According to research by local historian Ed Gaida, author of “The Sidewalks of San Antonio,” the City Council p***ed an ordinance April 1, 1879, “requiring all vehicles used for public hire to have affixed to them a metal plate with a license number and the number of horses required to pull the vehicle.”


People in need of transportation for themselves or their goods could hail a “hack” — a horse-drawn carriage — on the street or call on a livery stable to hire one. Owners of two-horse vehicles, Gaida says, were required to pay the city a fee of $5 per year — “no small amount in those days” — for any hack, wagon or other “public vehicle.”

At the end of each year, the license number on the plate was to be repainted in a different color to indicate payment of the fee, thus saving the cost of issuing new metal plates annually. The number also had to be painted in the same color in a prominent place on the vehicle itself.

 

There are no victims, only volunteers...

 

Cali has been that way for years....was so in the early sixties when my uncles buddies sold his old roadster....the new owner had to come by his house where the roadster was registered - to have my uncle sign off on the in-op so he could register it....you need to register your vehicle.....here in Dallas we have ALLOT of paper plates on cars that are involved in hit and run accidents...don't get me started.....I know it's an old thread....

 

Who cares if it's an old thread. It's on here and we're answering on it. Keep it going.

 

I may be wrong but isn't it cheaper to pay the registration BEFORE you drive it?

 

I wasn't gonna post on an old thread but it brings back some unpleasant memories of getting my parked car towed. It was about 20 years ago and I'd parked my Hurst Olds on the street because it had my old winter beater blocked in on our single driveway and I had to go to work. It was the 1st day of February. I had a 12 hour shift to work, repairing snow removal equipment, plows, loaders, etc etc.
When I got home, dead tired at the end of my shift, my Olds was gone! I checked with the PO-leece and they'd towed my car because the plates had expired the day before. When asked why they didn't just issue a parking ticket, they said they did....and after 8 hours they towed it.
Thing is, if the plow hadn't been able to keep my street clear, the cop couldn't have even been on my street! So, I caused my own tow/impound costs. Luckily, the car was unharmed but I still have a bad taste in my mouth about the deal..

 

fuc#in lawyers and bureucrats got their fingers in all of this. oh sorry. not suppose to rant.

 

That's amazing, thanks for that.

Did they charge for horses too? Maybe I should get a horse. Is it illegal to ride a horse? I know Dennis Weaver got away with it.

"Never volunteer for nuthin"

 

Now that sounds just to easy, doesn't it.

 

Like registrations, the admonishment made three years ago to not rant has probably expired.