St. Peters Police Seeking Voluntary Compliance With Vehicle Codes

St. Peters MO

30 March, 2022

11:00 PM

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Press release from the City of St. Peters: March 30, 2022 St. Peters residents who are storing abandoned vehicles or illegally parking cars including recreational vehicles or business vehicles may be getting a notification in the mail from the police so that they don't get a ticket down the road. In the coming weeks, the St. Peters Police Department will mail notices to homes where police have found violations of City vehicle codes. The notice will ask for voluntary compliance to avoid consequences. St. Peters Police periodically check St. Peters subdivisions for vehicle code violations such as illegally parked RVs, boats and trailers, business vehicles parked on the street instead of driveways, or the storage of inoperable vehicles at homes. The notice in the mail will warn the homeowner to remove or properly store the vehicle within seven days to avoid a ticket. Police will check the home again to ensure that the violation was corrected. "This is a soft approach to code enforcement with the idea that most residents will correct a code violation if they know the law," said Police Chief Rick Struttmann. "We don't want to use the courts to correct the problem if we don't have to." The City of St. Peters has other laws regulating the parking of recreational equipment. For more information concerning the proper parking of recreational vehicles, go online to www.stpetersmo.net/police-faqs.aspx or call 636-278-2244, ext. 3586. This press release was produced by the City of St. Peters. The views expressed here are the author's own.