If you have an unpaid parking ticket from the City of St. Louis, take a close look before you pay. You might not have to. Especially if the ticket you got was for parking “contrary to sign.”
For years the parking enforcement crew of the city’s Treasurer’s Office has been issuing tickets for that offense. But because the tickets relied upon a faulty reference to the specific law being violated, an attorney challenging those tickets in court is now winning.
Last month, lawyer Bevis Schock wiped away nearly $6,000 in parking fines owed by Forest Park Southeast resident Theodore Swider. His car had been booted and towed due to the outstanding fees. Schock got that back for him, too…