Question about a MA law.

[MABoy]

In MA, under a Junior Operators License, for the first 6 months of your JOL you are not allowed to have passangers under the age of 18 in your car.

A cop cited me in violation of this rule, for having a 19 year old in my car. According to him it is no passangers under the age of 21. But if you look it up in the Mass RMV drivers manual it clearly states no passangers under the age of 18.

As far as i can tell i am not in violation, i was wondering if there might have been something i missed on the manual, or if i am right, if there is anyway i can avoid having to pay 50 dollars to appeal something that is clearly a mistake.

[nasa808]

Go To Court,plead Ur Case,and Bring The Manual With U

[MountainCop]

Also, I'd recommend looking up the statute, printing or copying it, and bring that with you also.

If you can, bring your passenger friend. That way, he can prove his age to the court.

Good luck.

[chineseservant]

Go to court prepared. These things happen, mistakes were made on me too. The court will clear it up, good luck.

[1sgkelly]

Just tell them you know Ted Kennedy; they'll let you go, they did him.

:rolleyes: :rolleyes: :rolleyes:

[MABoy]

And for the follow up.

Today i got 2 wonderful letters from the Registry, 1 saying my license is being suspended for this violation. And the second one saying i defaulted on the 2 Citations.

Hmm lets see i never received a citation in the mail, which is what the officer said he would do.

So i go to the police station talk to the officer, and ask him about this, he says he never wrote a citation trying to give me a break, so then i ask him about the JOL violation, he is persistant that he is right, and says he is very familiar with this law. Getting agitated with me he tells me to go to the registry. So i drive to the registry, get my hearing. And what happens next a citation appears on screen, could this be the citation the officer never wrote?

So then i ask about the JOL violation, and whats the answer i get, "If your passanger was over age 18 your fine", i guess he wasn't that familiar. Seems the officer not only lied to me about not writing a ticket. He in fact wrote one, sent a copy to the registry, but never mailed me one. So i Defaulted with never receiving a citation. So now i get to miss a day of school(not to fond of this) to go to court to prove him wrong.

[Bigg Dogg]

Wasn't you also the one was that the wreck because the van was beside you??

[SgtScott31]

Call the whaambulance.

[MABoy]

Lets see cop was wrong, 17 year old without a highschool diploma was right.

I think a song needs to be rewritten "I faught the Law and I WON".

Seriously though how stupid can you be, first he lies saying he never wrote a citation. Hmm not. Second he claims he is very familiar with the law, and yet somehow i am right. Maybe i should be a cop, **** whats the entrance exam name and DOB.

then i can sit around all day eat doughnuts and make false claims to 17 year olds.

[Bigg Dogg]

Lets see cop was wrong, 17 year old without a highschool diploma was right.

I think a song needs to be rewritten "I faught the Law and I WON".

Seriously though how stupid can you be, first he lies saying he never wrote a citation. Hmm not. Second he claims he is very familiar with the law, and yet somehow i am right. Maybe i should be a cop, **** whats the entrance exam name and DOB.

then i can sit around all day eat doughnuts and make false claims to 17 year olds.


But then again this is comng from just one side of the story.I wonder what the actual officers side of the story is.

[MABoy]

I try to not make my view biased.

That was the sequence of events.