Reason is inadmissible

Municipality in Lower Austria issued false parking tickets

Many vehicles were also parked on the gravel strip during our local inspection.

(Bild: Krone KREATIV/Martin Jöchl)

As a municipality, you should know the law very well. In Gerasdorf near Vienna, this is probably not quite the case, as can be seen from the administrative penalty notices issued to "illegal parkers". These contradict a supreme court decision, as the ombudswoman found out.

The P. family had parked their car on a gravel strip next to the road without any markings. Like many others. "We were neither obstructing traffic nor disregarding traffic signs such as no stopping and no parking," the Viennese explain. Nevertheless, they received a parking ticket. And wrongly too.