Vague Rules & Regs

Our Board is updating the association Rules and Regs. Current penalties for violating parking rules are very specific (i.e.: If no permit is displayed, after 24 hours a warning is issued, 48 hours citation, 72 hours, towed).

The board is proposing to make this rule very generic. Such as, "Parking permit is required to be displayed while parked on the property. Violators are subject to warning, citation, or tow."

What are the pros and cons of the generic rule?

Just curious, Aaron. How do you/will you enforce these rules?

Ours is similar to your proposed revision. A "courtesy" letter after the first violation is all it takes. We do have the authority & signage to have vehicles towed from our common areas, but have not. Occasionally, owners have had a vehicle towed from their deeded parking spaces if no one can reach the car's driver.

We have security officers on the premises at all times, so they usually are the ones who take action.

Kerry,

We have a security company that we use to enforce the rules. We have actually gone through a couple trying to find one that will actually do what they promise, but thats a different issue.

I agree, I like the more clear, specific rule and does not leave it up to each individual security to use their discretion. One board member says we should leave it general then tell the security company how we want them to enforce it. My feeling is why keep the procedure a secret? If we know how we want it enforced then put it in the rules that way.