Are magnetic numbers and other ways not to pay for parking - is it legal?
A walk through the paid parking areas and car markets showed that the desire to hide the number and avoid a fine for unpaid parking is directly proportional to the attempts of municipal services to squeeze money from the car owner for the right to leave the car on the street. There are a lot of ways to mask license plates, starting with primitive paper sticking to a number and ending with high-tech devices: remotely controlled curtains using license plates or reversing numbers.
It is noteworthy that for hiding rooms when driving a car, a fine of 5, 000 rubles or deprivation of rights is provided. For a dirty, unreadable number, you can do 500 rubles or a warning from the inspector. However, in the case of parking, things are different. Articles in the Code of Administrative Offenses for parking with a closed number or without it is not yet provided. Judge for yourself: to prove that a piece of paper stuck to the number of the car is not easy for you to do. Maybe the villain-neighbor, who decided to annoy, specifically closed your car number?
Another thing is when the machine has special technical devices for hiding rooms. For the management of such a machine will have to pay 2500 rubles. A similar penalty is provided for the use of a fake number during parking. But for a trip on such a machine, you can lose your rights for a period of six months to one year (article 12.2 of the Administrative Code of the Russian Federation). Most often, in order not to pay for parking, car owners simply rent rooms. The worst that can happen is a car, under the far-fetched pretext of fighting terrorism, will be sent to a parking lot, and there you will have to pay a tidy amount for evacuation and storage. In Moscow, this practice is common.
In the operating instructions for many four-wheel drive vehicles, there is a prohibition on towing by partial loading. This may cause damage to the transmission components. In addition, tow trucks pick up cars in the absence of the owner and do not know if the hand brake is on. In the case of an electric parking brake, it is impossible to determine this by looking through the window of a closed machine. So the parking numbers for the owner of a four-wheel drive car can result in disproportionate financial losses in the repair compared to the amount saved in the parking lot. In the operating instructions for many four-wheel drive vehicles, there is a prohibition on towing by partial loading. This may cause damage to the transmission components. In addition, tow trucks pick up cars in the absence of the owner and do not know if the hand brake is on. In the case of an electric parking brake, it is impossible to determine this by looking through the window of a closed machine. So the parking numbers for the owner of a four-wheel drive car can result in disproportionate financial losses in the repair compared to the amount saved in the parking lot.