No go for street sales
2006-12-07
IF there is a law that prohibits a “For Sale” sign in the rear window of a car, Carlos Oliveiros would understand. But why does he keep on getting fined, only to be acquitted by the courts?
Oliveiros, former chef turned registered used car dealer, has had little pink slips - fines from the Drakenstein traffic department - glued to his car windows three times this year.
Twice the slips appeared on his windows when the car was parked outside his Market Street residence and another time after he had parked to go shopping in central Paarl.
“Each time I received the fine for R300 - for indiscriminate parking - and each time I appealed to a state prosecutor, who cancelled the ticket,” Oliveiros said this week.
“I do not think I should have to hide the car, just because there is a For Sale sign in the window.
“I am a registered dealer, but I don’t park the car next to the street for long periods as if it was my showroom.”
Not so, argue traffic officials.
There is a regulation that states clearly that no selling without a permit, will be allowed in municipal areas.
Law enforcers use their discression, yes, but if the same cars, with the same for sale signs, are parked in the same spot so regularly as to signal a car salesman at work in the street, the officer will slap a pink ticket onto the window.
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