RE: [A/S] Live Aboard

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>>> <Morris says> I once parked my own Airstream on the street in front of
my own 
house and got a parking ticket for $100.
Turns out that parking anything on the street here in Bethesda, 
Maryland for more than 24 hours is a parking violation and the local 
police are vigilant and quick to ticket.

<Dave replies> Yes, I lived in Bethedsa before and Gaithersburg, so I know
how it is there. I'm in LA now, as I said, and they have some crazy city
ordinances regarding parking too.   For example, you are not allowed to park
a big U-haul on the street for more than 3 hours.  I got a $45 ticket for
that when I moved in.  I thought, "welcome to LA", is that how they welcome
people?  3 hours seems a little soon for a ticket.  And it was in front of
my apartment with  no parking restrictions, colors or meters.  
     Anyways, maybe you did not have your towing vehicle attached to it. In
LA, they sometimes ticket trailers when they are parked alone, without being
attached.  They don't usually ticket people unless someone on the block
complains, so if your neighbors are nice, then no problem.  In Los Angeles,
they have a 72 hour rule that requires that any car or vehicle must move
within that time.  It's ok to re-park in the same spot, but you need to have
moved the vehicle.   You might ask, how do they enforce this, because they
can't be watching it 24/7.  The answer is that they mark the tires with a
chalk stick.  They drive by and tap the tires with a long chalk-tipped
stick.   So when they come by later, they look for the clalk spots on the
tires and ticket the cars that haven't moved.  So I guess, some sharpies go
out and clean the chalk off their tires, if they know how the system works
to avoid the ticket.  We have some guy on our street  that sells old cars
and he fills up the street with junk that doesn't move--and it's very
frustrating and difficult to catch him. Like I said, its an urban
battleground against the tax-paying homeowners and the people on the fring
trying to make a buck.