Can a police officer give you a parking ticket for driving around an empty lot at 1:30 am?

Whether or not it was a city park or a public park owned privately, we are still given authority to enforce any driving or parking violations within the property.

However, since it was compounded that this curtilage is owned by the city - he acts as an agent of the city, and may enforce the law. It may sound as though a silly infringement was issued, but I wouldn’t question the purpose of the officer - if confronted with the same thing, and all you were doing were spinouts, I would have given you a lecture and sent you on your way.

As far as fighting it? Sure you can fight it - but what would be your defense? If he gave you a parking ticket, he may have just given you the lesser of the two violations. Divergent to writing you a moving violation against your record, he wrote a parker against the car - pretty much doing you a favor. If you go to court with it, and the officer is called in, he may bring that up and explain to the judge in lieu of a mover he issued you a parker. It depends on your jurisdiction.

Two things first to be "parked" a vehicle must be unattended you were in it so it does not meet the criteria for a "parking" ticket.

As for doing the donuts tell the judge you are not very experienced driver and you wanted to learn how to better control your vehicle in slick road conditions tell him you had read internet "how to's" on controlling a vehicle in a slide and you wanted to practice in a safe place.

Might work might not.

Bottom line is you were not parked that was the ticket given i would simply ask the cop in court was i in my vehicle and was the cap running then point out that PARKING requires the vehicle to be unattended and leave it at that.

Always remember THEY write the laws so use that against them at every turn. Murderers walk in this country because some putz didn't file a piece of paper correctly same rules should apply to you.

Your going to court and tell the Judge "Your honor, I was not parked in a city park after hours, I was driving in a city park after hours" Yeah, good luck with that defense.

And by "spin" I assume you mean doing donuts. That is called careless driving and is highly illegal. The cop did you a favor by only citing you for illegal parking it. Don't push it.

I think he actually did you a favor. He could have arrested you for trespassing and had your vehicle towed. It depends on how the city's parking ordinance is worded, there may be a clause that prohibits vehicles from operating in a parking lot when the stores are closed.

there is not any such subject as a "genuine crime" as you state. Any violation of the regulation is against the regulation. There are classifications of violations of regulation, as you presently be attentive to. Yours became right into a fix it cost tag and in line with danger a small nice became into to be paid. once you first have been given stopped by using the officer, you may are starting to be your vehicle fastened. i be attentive to, you probably did no longer have the money, you probably did no longer get time, and so on. that's no subject to the officer. His interest is truthfully, public protection. You have been hurting somebody (i.e everybody on the line). the reality that a cord on your gentle wasn't working, you would be able to desire to no longer observe me what you have been doing (i.e battling, making a turn, exhibiting you're a hazzard, and so on.) touching directly to observe and suspension, maximum tickets informs you what to do and in line with danger you forgot to envision it, i don't be attentive to. The courts do no longer consistently deliver out "Courtesy observe". Police are human beings, only such as you and that i, besides the undeniable fact that, in this occasion he/she would not sense or have confidence his/her experience of right and incorrect could come into play, except he could fell to cost tag you and somebody have been given harm. Now his experience of right and incorrect would trouble him. you would be able to desire to additionally understand that all of us forget approximately approximately our experience of right and incorrect in some unspecified time sooner or later and situations through fact we don't desire to go through the consequence of our action(s), if any. Police lie constantly yet are knowledgeable that's a element of their interest and the better good. So what if he tells a lie and it gets a scum bag off the line, he shouldn't trouble approximately "Mirranda Rights", and so on. in spite of the reality that i think for you, this became into your fault on all counts. while you are able to be a cop sooner or later, you had extra valuable think of roughly inforcing the regulation, no count how small and who that's that violates it.

How dare you be out of your house at 1:30 and not doing anything wrong! You are obviously a threat to our society. I'm glad you got a ticket. You are such a horrible person. That'll teach you.

(sarcasm, btw)

parking i don't know

but they can get you for trespassing

maybe parking was less of a fine

If it is a privately owned parking lot, yes he can.

Obviously, since he DID, he CAN.