The issue is this guy left his car in front of someone’s house for a month and pissed someone off enough that they called it in. Not going to happen if it’s just an out of state plate. Cars get dumped all the time in that neighborhood and it’s a major headache.

He isn’t parking in his friend’s driveway. He left his car in a neighborhood where street parking is the main and only option for the majority of residents. It’s dense and parking is tough. Nobody should be leaving their car on the street in JP for 30 days at a stretch unless they live on the street and even then, it’s kind of inherently uneighborly. Space is limited and It’s like musical chairs. if car doesn’t move in from front of her house for 30 days old lady gets fucked on parking. These aren’t public parking lots lmao

So it sounds like the lawyer agrees with the RMV that they were reading the law correctly. I’ve said it elsewhere, but what irks me about the local news stories I’ve seen about this is that the framing has been that the RMV and the RMV person you had your appeal with are being said to be in the wrong, when it is the legislature that may be in the wrong. I know this doesn’t mean a lot to you as an out of stater who feels aggrieved by a kafkesk bureaucracy, but I’m irked at the local news who should know better deciding to run with the easy “local bureaucrats are assholes” angle rather than the nuanced “Massachusetts legislature is a horrible corrupt mess that can’t do anything behind its veils of secrecy “ angle. Signed, a local bureaucrat who has to do things that I don’t love, but don’t get to make decisions on.

I got a ticket for parking on a resident permit only street about an hour after I put on the resident parking permit in the required spot on the rear window. Went back to the clerks office the next day and ended up talking to the same lady who had given me the permit the previous day and she was like "wtf are they doing. They can't ticket you when you have a permit."

Thanks for highlighting this--I'm here as a travel nurse till July. I'm just here to work and don't plan to stay, you've given me a new fear. But I definitely appreciate the heads-up

Reminds me of nightmares that I have where I'm driving a moving car but somehow am in the backseat and trying to get at the steering wheel and pedals.

I now understand all the crosses on route 24

What if he’s parking in his friends driveway? Plus registering it doesn’t create a space for the old lady who can’t walk

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Some folks in bureaucracies enjoy 30-year careers enforcing random shit like this. And they were trained to do it. My experience working in a bureaucracy for several years is that everyone treats it like Skynet, you can’t change it even from the inside. Sorry you got caught in the bullshit.

Driver must have let loose a wicked fart that even he couldn’t stand

Same here. I was like “I know this story!”

The Massachusetts oligarchy has a lot of catch 22s. Call out overreaching bureaucracies where you see them

“I’m just visiting” alternatively “None of your business”

I wonder how this applies to rental car companies. Like, could someone walk through the rental car parking garage at Logan and report all the out of state plates?

OP's visit happened in October. The car hasn't been there for five months. Why call the RMV about it now?

Sully! We have saved you a stool PJ O’Potatohans in Sadchester.

Just to clarify, I have one uncle who lives on a street where the locals normally have to circle for like 30 minutes to find a spot. It’s not a big deal, but I could imagine an out of state license plate parked for 30 days would be frustrating.

Literally a thread about headlights being too bright and people are downvoting proper car maintenance. I swear some of you should have your licenses taken away.

I’m with this guy.

This is completely unreasonable but tbf there aren't enough spots for residents as it is and leaving your out of state car parked for 30 days is annoying af. It takes a spot away from the elderly woman up the block who has walking issues, the pregnant lady next door, etc.

good luck! hope everything works out.

I can’t wait to report people I don’t like with out of state plates on the vineyard.

Just curious, what should you have said instead of you are here for x amount of time?

You’re regulating things for people who aren’t your “citizens” it would basically be a violation of the interstate commerce clause. It is also entirely reasonable for the people of NH, RI, and CT to operate their cars in ma for more than 30 days in the year. Federal court would probably rule that you have to actually live in MA as a resident to be required to register your car similar yo how income tax laws work.