Albuquerque Pay Station / ParkABQ Outage Defense
Albuquerque Code of Ordinances §8-5-2-9 makes meter/pay-station inoperability a defense. ABQPark (Passport-operated app) and the city's Parkeon pay stations are well-documented to suffer credit-card processing outages, GPS misreads, and zone-confusion failures. The Parking Division retains transaction logs that hearing officers can pull. A timestamped screenshot of a failed transaction or a photo of an out-of-order pay station triggers dismissal.
Legal basis
ROA Albuquerque §8-5-2-9; NMSA §66-7-352(C)
Sample appeal wording
City of Albuquerque – Parking Hearings P.O. Box 1293, Albuquerque NM 87103 RE: Citation #[CITATION] Under ROA §8-5-2-9, I appeal because the parking equipment was inoperable when I attempted to pay on [DATE] at [TIME] at [LOCATION], pay station/zone [ID]. Attached: [screenshot of failed transaction / photo of out-of-order display]. I request the hearing officer obtain the Passport/ABQPark transaction log and the Parkeon meter audit log for the relevant timestamp. Those records will confirm the outage. I respectfully request dismissal. [NAME] / [DATE]
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