Chance; Get out of a Parking Ticket Free

Despite the nominal fee of a parking ticket which is often cheaper than most parking garages it is still frustrating to walk back to your vehicle to see the glaring orange ticket stuck on your windshield. Wouldn’t it be great if you could somehow get out of the parking ticket? There may be hope, continue reading.     

Even some of the members of the Massachusetts legislature have been the victim of a pesky parking ticket at least once in their lives. On June 14, 1949, legislature was prompted to amend G.L. c. 90, § 20A, pertaining to non-criminal dispositions of parking violations, to include a provision whereby the parking clerk shall dismiss the charge without payment of any fine if it is the first violation committed by the person in a particular city or town in the calendar year. 

Therefore, if it is your first parking ticket for the year in any given municipality you may be better off disputing the violation. Bring a copy of the following statute with you and point to the second sentence in the fifth paragraph:

https://malegislature.gov/Laws/GeneralLaws/PartI/TitleXIV/Chapter90/Section20a 

The statute reads “If it is the first violation subject to this section committed by such a person in a particular city of town in the calendar year, the parking clerk shall dismiss the charge without the payment of any fine;” Unfortunately, the next sentence goes on to say that if the City or Town has adopted a schedule of fines by municipal rule then this provision will not apply.  Best of luck to you.