The Lack of Legal Value: Highway Code, Courtesy, and Police Enforcement for Reserved Parking Spaces

2023-08-13 05:01:00

If you are going to do your shopping soon, you will no doubt notice places reserved for pregnant women or families: these are called “courtesy” places/

What if someone parks there when there is theoretically no right? Unfortunately, not much! For the moment, it is impossible to punish the person because these places have no legal value.

“The signs are not in the highway code“, specifies Benoit Godart, spokesperson for the VIAS Institute. “Because of this, the police can’t do much, they can’t intervene in a public parking lot for this reason. The same goes for the manager: he does not have the right to have the car repaired if this situation ever arises. These are signs that encourage courtesy, but from the moment the motorist does not respect them, the manager can only make a verbal remark or possibly slip a paper under the windshield wipers.“.

An explanation that suits Maxime, an employee of the Namur decathlon, perfectly. “Our role is not to play police. Fortunately, there are very few people who park in these spaces and if so, we can tell them in a simple way to be careful.“.

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