Traffic Law Question

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Originally Posted by dmek25

does it matter if your not driving? i think up here you can get away with this, as long as your not behind the wheel

I'm going by Va. laws but I'm sure its about the same in most states and the answer to your question is no. They only look to see if you had valid tags and if you had ins. If you cannot show you have coverage then they fine you. Now you can appeal and in some cases if you can show 100% that the car was off the road they may let you off. The two cases I can think of is a customer had his car at a repair shop when his ins ran out but he got coverage back before driving the car. He used the papper work from the shop and from his insurance co. to show that when the car was parked it had no ins. but that he did have ins when he picked it up. He won his appeal. I had another customer who had his car in HIS garage working on it and let his ins run out. He had receipts to show he was working on the car but did not have a that third party to back him. In his case he lost.