I'm in my friend's Toyota as a passenger today, the cop is standing in the road and motions him to pull over and says he's doing 40mph in a 30 zone. He tells my friend he's not going to write him a ticket for speeding but he writes me a $76 ticket for not wearing my seatbelt. I always thought cops coudn't write tickets if they were sitting on private property, I mean he was probably on a county easement but the county don't mantain the easement. Should I fight this or what?

 

Did you have your seatbelt on??

 

Maybe you should hit your friend up for 1/2 of the ticket cost...or not. Pay the ticket and chalk it up to "been there, done that, don't do it again." I think you'd be wasting your time and money in fighting this....

Then again, I don't live in Florida and am not aware of the statutes of Florida law for safety belt violations as well as law enforcement sitting on private property or on county easements and issuing tickets on public roads.

 

thay can't give you a ticket for what YOU do on private property but as you said you were on the road so he would have every right to give you a ticket for what you were doing ON the road..!

now with that said just pay it. it's not a moving violation as you said you were not the one driving

 

Just pay it and wear your seatbelt.
Its just plain common sense.

 

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If that's all it takes.......... I'll never "click-it" again. Look out ladies, Ridge is on the prowl. :P

 

Just curious is a seat belt ticket a traffic or moving violation? Seriously ops:

 

It's a non moving violation here in FL, no points or raise in insurance. I'm definetly takin it to court. I know the law is the law but there are also loopholes in the law and I have found one, and if for no other reason than excersising rights and further clogging up an already overwhelmed court system, its going before a judge. I could take it with a grain of salt and care less about the 76 bucks but I don't like rascally weasals who claim that their motivation is to save lives when in essesence they are really more concerned with making my wallet a little lighter, allthewhile real crime like carjacking, bank robbery, and and other serious felonies are occuring all over town.

 

I'm just amazed they gave a ticket to a passenger. I think you could possibly fight that, if you can fight anything. It's the driver's responsibility to make sure his passengers are wearing their seatbelts. If my kids weren't in a safety seat, would they give a ticket to the kids? No, of course not. This seems weird to me.