Q: What is the statute of limitation on Parking Violations in the state of Maryland? I received a letter from a collection
The moving violation is from 12 years ago. I do not remember receiving a ticket.
A: The statute of limitations has to do with the time between the date of the violation and the date the citation is issued. Once the citation is issued, the statute is satisfied. For traffic and parking violations the limitations on issuing a citation is one year from the date of violation. In your case, the citation appears to have been timely issued for the violation 12 years ago. Once you failed to pay it, a fine was imposed and has been outstanding ever since. If it was a parking ticket, however, you should not have been able to renew your tags and registration with outstanding fines for unpaid parking tickets. If it was a moving violation (your question says it was both) then your drivers license would have been suspended and you could not have renewed it. 12 years with unpaid fines would not pass by without blocking renewal if either your registration or license. Therefore, I would question whether this letter you received is fraudulent or there’s some other issue you’re missing.
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