everyone’s breaking the law
at least two dozen municipalities across pennsylvania can’t write parking tickets for a while.
$5 Parking Ticket Causes Chaos For All Pa. Meters [the pittsburgh channel, 2005.04.29]Pascal showed that Butler was in violation of a state law that requires parking meters to be certified as accurate every three years.
Now, cities and towns are clamoring for the state’s Division of Weights and Measures to certify their meters.
The division, which has to inspect everything from gasoline pumps to delicatessen scales, is overwhelmed.
this is just costing the cities in question revenue, but it’s still breaking the law…
if whole cities can’t keep themselves on the right side of the law, with all the people they have in their bureaucracies to keep track of these things, what are the rest of us supposed to do?
