Posted by Keith in Washington on Thursday, August 16, 2001 at 11:33AM :
In Reply to: Not-running vehicles, must still pay tax ? posted by RDavis on Tuesday, August 14, 2001 at 11:11AM :
It has been real interesting to read all the comments about the silly "laws" that people have contrived concerning vehicles. Yes I have seen some of them in the neiboring areas such as no RV being parked on you lot etc. Yes and there is usually official who is enforcing the law but "forgets" his own vehicle or his friends RV. I really like the one about it having to be on cement blocks on the side of the house. What happens if I like wood blocks over concrete (they scratch less).
There are lots of housing developments in this area (yes the ones with big houses) that have covenants about vehicles and etc. They are all designed to preserve the value of the houses in the area. I just choose not to live in those areas. I park trailers, boats and trucks in my side yard. I am in a suburb area with lots of trees so people can not see it.
I lived in Alaska and people have the mis-conception that it is the last frontier. Yet it has some of the same problems as we see. One development has covenants that says nothing over night in the driveway nothing parked on the lot and no boats trailers etc in the garage. That is pretty tight. The funny part of it is that this older beat up Chev kept on parting just outside the neiborhood on a dirt track (road). The people got very upset. Come to find out it was a cop's undercover car. He had to park it there because he did not have a 3 car garage at his house in the neiborhood (they did not allow more than 2 garages). The car stayed. I lived in the next neiborhood and had a boat in the driveway. One day I happended to buy a 52 PW and brought it home. I parked it in the street and started to clean it up prior to putting it in the garage. My neibor (a lady) drove home but never got there. She stopped in front of my house and stared at the truck for 10 minutes. He mouth was wide open and her face was quite red I will not repeat what she mouthed. She did the same when my boat arrived. She was a neat freek. The sad part is that she kept her whole lot neat as a pin and lighted up with spot lights 24 hours a day and had a mean dog in the back. I could not walk out in to my lot without her dog viciously barking (it, the dog, got worse all the time). I talked to her husband about it and he said he could do nothing about it. Sadly one day, the dog was out front and a 3 or 4 year old neibor kid walked by and the dog attacked him in the face and took part of his lip off. The husband, first time he ever stood up to her, simply took the dog right then and there and had his put down.
On to something better.
In Washington you must transfer the title within 10 days or it is about a $100 fine. However, that means that you have to transfer the title and nothing else. You do not have to pay registration fees and etc if your not going to put it on the road. All they want is the correct owner on the vehicle title. Which is fine by me. It only costs a couple of bucks. When you want to put it on the road you go pay the tab fees for the year and you can drive it. No penelties or back fees. You just must say that it has not been on public roads or land. Which means you can drive it all you want on private land without a license.
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