From: "Mark" 

If only they applied so much effort and ingenuity to reducing their
expenditures as they do to trying to separate us from our money in ever
more insidious ways to support their habit of spending like drunken
sailors...

"Don Hills"  wrote in message
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> In article , "Geo"
 wrote:
>>
>>No way! This isn't legal, if I pay for time it's my time, either I get to
>>take it with me, get a refund on the unused portion or I'm allowed to give
>>it to someone else. There is no way this crap can be legal.
>
> City governments set their own bylaws. There are lots of places with such
> parking charge schemes. They're legal because the city government/council
> has passed laws that say they are.
>
> The city I live in (and many others in this country) have gone from
> individual parking meters to a coupon scheme with common dispensers. They
> go
> under the generic name of "pay and display". You put in your coins (or
> notes,
> or credit card, or TXT a message from your cellphone and the fee is
> charged
> to your phone bill) and it prints a coupon for you to put on the
> dashboard.
> The point is that when you leave, you take any unexpired portion of the
> time
> with you and the next parker has to purchase his own time, thus the effect
> is the same as the meters that auto-expire when the car leaves the space.
>
> --
> Don Hills    (dmhills at attglobaldotnet)     Wellington, New Zealand
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