Parking only for in-state tagged vehicles, part 2

On Sep 21, 6:34 am, "johnmoli...@yahoo.com" <johnmoli...@yahoo.com> wrote:

> I got a copy of the town ordinance and it reads "Failure to diplay a
> current registration or license plate on vehicle issued by the Florida
> Dept. of Motor Vehicles".

several of the followup posts have focused on "display a current registration" as if it required the actual registration _card_ (the dot-matrix-printer-generated carbon-paper thingie that has owner's name and address on it) to be visibly displayed where it can be seen from the outside of the vehicle.   It never even occurred to me that's what it might have meant, and I've never heard of any state having such a requirement, now or even back as far as the 1950's.   What most states _do_ require is that a current registration _sticker_ be placed on the metal license tag, every year or 2 or 3, to show the expiration date of the tags (in the old days, in some states they _did_ give you new metal tags each year).   It's perfectly reasonable for a local or state law to require that vehicles parked on a public street display both license plates, and current registration _stickers_ affixed to those plates (I understand from another poster that NJ uses inspection stickers on the windshield or bumper instead, but it's the same idea).  What I, and several others felt was not reasonable was to limit use of the street only to those displaying in-state tags and completely denying it to those with out-of-state tags.

One other poster mentioned the restricted-parking neighborhood in Baltimore, near the stadium and the inner harbor, that was gentrified in the 1970's as part of urban redevelopment and is now a quite nice place to live close to downtown.  IIRC even there in places, and in many other localities I've seen that restrict parking except for neighborhood residents, they _do_ allow anyone to park there for a limited time (say, 1 or 2 hours), after which you would have to move your car, or pull it into a private driveway or garage (if you're visiting someone in the neighborhood).  They do this to prevent a huge influx of daily commuters looking for cheap or free parking within walking distance of their downtown offices who would take every available space and leave nothing for residents, while still allowing the occasional visitor who actually has business in the neighborhood.  And there, the qualification to park more than 2 hr. is having a "local resident" sticker issued by the authorities (often with a "zone" number in case your city has multiple such local parking zones) affixed to the vehicle, and signs on the street say something like "no parking except zone 4 residents with permit" or "2 hr parking 8am - 6pm except with zone 5 permit".

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