Many drivers do not know this offense and unfortunately harvest PV.
With nearly 1200 (!) Infractions registered in the Highway Code, it is very likely that neither you nor your neighbor nor your best friend know all the reasons that can be worth being verbalized by car. The most frequent – speeding, crossing of red light, driving driving … – are known to all. But there are also more surprising offenses. Problem: once the surprise effect has passed you still have to pay the fine, and it can sometimes have a little trouble going.
If you do not know it yet, know that in France the rules concerning parking are quite strict, and that we quickly received a fine of 135 euros and find our vehicle on the pound. It is often the sanction imposed by the police for a parking considered as “annoying”, “very embarrassing” or even “dangerous”. If you leave your car for example on a pedestrian crossing, in a turn, in front of the outing of a garage … You should fall from the sky so as not to know that these behaviors are prohibited. Conversely, many motorists are sometimes convinced to respect the law while they are at fault. Even when they are quietly sitting in their car at the stop.
This is the case if you happen to “squat” a paid location to wait for a loved one. Know that even if it only lasts five minutes, you are exposing yourself to receive an FPS (post-status package) for default. The highway code is clear on the subject: staying inside your vehicle does not exempt from paying your parking. If a municipal agent wishes to verbalize you for this reason he has the power, which will result in a fine of 35 euros. Fortunately, in most cases, it is possible to convince the ASVP (surveillance agents of the public highway) not to draw up by gently heading towards the parking meter to settle his debt.
But you will not have this chance if it is a LAPI car (automated reader of license plates) which is at the origin of the ticket. These PV sulfacts, more and more numerous in our streets, scan the license plates of the vehicles of bad payers without worrying whether they are occupied or not. Once the minutes have been received, you can dispute as much as you want, the law will not be on your side. You will have no choice but to take out your blue card, with the unpleasant feeling, once again, to be taken for a milk cow.