I'm in need of legal help. I've got an old car in my back yard. Other than it's sat for a long time it is in working order. It's far from a looker. I've gotten at least 10 people trying to buy it off me, including the most recent whom then prank called me and proclaimed he had sex with my wife - I told him I hope he enjoyed. Anyways, now it's a few months later and I've got a letter stating that I have to tag it or move it. I've read through the code, and all I need to do is charge the battery, check the gas and get it tagged. But I don't want to pay the city to punish me. Here is the loop hole I see. By loop hole I mean the means to malicious compliance. If they want to nit pick then I get to as well.
I propose to make the car "not outdoors". This is tricky as I have no garage. Can somebody point me to a legal definition (that applied to Marion County) of the word "outside". Basiclly if I can put a mini barn around it I think I would be good. I need to verify that minibarns don't require a permit though as I bet that fine is worse than the 60 buck it would take the tag the car. I know that is cheaper than the mini barn, but I could use one for storage anyways - and the point here is I do NOT want to give the piece of <explitive> city/county anything. I will gladly throw money away to keep from paying them a penny. I've gone to war with the MCHD before on this same issue, but then the tag was current so it was a sweeping and decisive victory for me. I need to repeat that but I don't want to tag the car every year to avoid these hassle. I'm not going to be freaking strong armed into selling my property!!!
Also, any other maliciously compliant ideas would be greatly welcomed. This isn't about the easy way out so any answers of just get it tagged will be pointless.
I've got 10 days to work with on this. I've already called the Gestapo agent whos issued the order to confirm all I have to do is keep the tag current to keep from being harassed any further on this issue, so waiting for him to call or email me back to confirm exactly what I need to do. I've found reading the code to these people helps as they seem to rarely know it.
I propose to make the car "not outdoors". This is tricky as I have no garage. Can somebody point me to a legal definition (that applied to Marion County) of the word "outside". Basiclly if I can put a mini barn around it I think I would be good. I need to verify that minibarns don't require a permit though as I bet that fine is worse than the 60 buck it would take the tag the car. I know that is cheaper than the mini barn, but I could use one for storage anyways - and the point here is I do NOT want to give the piece of <explitive> city/county anything. I will gladly throw money away to keep from paying them a penny. I've gone to war with the MCHD before on this same issue, but then the tag was current so it was a sweeping and decisive victory for me. I need to repeat that but I don't want to tag the car every year to avoid these hassle. I'm not going to be freaking strong armed into selling my property!!!
Also, any other maliciously compliant ideas would be greatly welcomed. This isn't about the easy way out so any answers of just get it tagged will be pointless.
I've got 10 days to work with on this. I've already called the Gestapo agent whos issued the order to confirm all I have to do is keep the tag current to keep from being harassed any further on this issue, so waiting for him to call or email me back to confirm exactly what I need to do. I've found reading the code to these people helps as they seem to rarely know it.