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The opinion clarified Alabama law which allows a judge either to imprison a motorist one day for every $15 dollars in unpaid parking tickets or find him guilty of contempt, collect another $50 and send him to jail for five days. Moreover, parking tickets carry a twenty-year statute of limitations, meaning a motorist today could be jailed for a parking offense committed in 1988, but not for a number of far more serious felony crimes including burglary and fraud which fall under a three-year statute of limitations. (Alabama Code Section 15-3-1)

It may be true that it’s the only method they have but it’s a bit overboard. I can hope that this opinion was done not as an instruction to the cities but to the Alabama legislator to come up with a way to allow cities to collect the parking fines. The 20 year statute of limitation is a little crazy though.

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