Barb, my best advice would be not to believe anything anyone says to you until you read if for yourself in black and white. Go to wherever the codes are stored or archived. Read them for yourself and make copies. I think you may find a way around all the b-s.

Many years ago, I got a traffic ticket for crossing over the (gore)(goar) line, (not sure of the spelling) on the interstate. It's the 6" wide white line that comes out to a spear shape at the on and off ramps. Anyway, I went to the Arizona Department of Motor Vehicles office in Phoenix and bought the books that outline the traffic pavement markings for the State. I found out that if you had reduced your speed from that which is posted and used caution, you could legally cross the line. The posted speed was 55. The Highway Patrolman who wrote the ticket listed my speed at 40 on the ticket. I went to court, representing myself, showed the judge the law in the book I had purchased and argued that I had reduced my speed 27% from the posted limit and had indeed used caution because I had no other tickets for the past 25 years and was a responsible driver. She declared that I was "not responsible" and dismissed the case. I was wishing that I had a camera with me to capture the look on the patrolman's face. He was devastated!! As I was putting my books and papers together to leave, I heard the judge say to the patrolman "Well, what are we going to do now?" It was less than a year later that the law was changed to where you cannot cross the line under any circumstances.

Another case in point. As long as I have lived here, everyone has told me that you can't sell more than 3 cars per year without a dealer's license (high-buck). Following the ticket incident, I got curious about the 3 car law. I went to the Noble Library on the Arizona State University campus and looked up the law in black and white. It states that as an individual, you cannot sell more than 3 cars per year if you are self-financing them. You can sell all the cars you want to if you are selling them for cash.

So you see, people get things turned around from what the law actually says. Determine who has jurisdiction in your case and examine the laws for yourself in black and white.

As an aside, the judge had quite a lot of insight by declaring me "not responsible"