Q: What is best way to appeal parking ticket in Utah where judge agreed with prosecutors poor reading of law?
Was cited at a Park and Ride for "11.20.050 Parking prohibited in specified areas". Car was not in a marked parking space, but not blocking traffic in the parking lot, was also not parked along any red curbs or where No Parking signs were posted. Officer couldn't tell me which of the 15 subsections of 11.20.050 the car violated. Prosecutor argued that I violated the law by parking: "at any place where official signs or traffic controls placed by the traffic engineer prohibit stopping, standing or parking." Then cited another code that says traffic controls include paint/markings on the ground, to include parking spaces. They argued that parking lines are traffic controls and since I was parked outside of them I violated the law. The law cited includes nothing about parking outside marked stalls. They completely took out of context that section of law and turned white parking lanes into a prohibitive parking sign when it was meant to address uses of red or yellow paint.
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