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Old 28-08-2011, 06:26   #91
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oh and I forgot.. for the rest of you.. Florida has no income tax.. they use such things as fines and fees to get revenue. In October 2009 they jacked up everything over the roof tops... used to be a duplicate car title was $12 now it is $75 and so on.. other stuff is even more ridiculous.

Is this like Hazzard county?
Maybe Boss Hogg needed to raise some money so he sends Rosco out to stop the good ole boys, bust a tail light and issue a fine.

The wild west lives on.
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We live on a boat because we couldn't afford the house any more...
Hmm, now I'm wondering if the house was rented out. That might make a difference in the ability of the owner to claim the house as the legal residence.
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Is this like Hazzard county?
Maybe Boss Hogg needed to raise some money so he sends Rosco out to stop the good ole boys, bust a tail light and issue a fine.

The wild west lives on.
Now,now, Anjou--be nice

Just up the road from you, (City Centre, and Handsworth), you had some interesting police activities a week or three back.

(Will be there on the 14th)

Tori, Lake monroe has some very nice cruising areas.
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Hmm, now I'm wondering if the house was rented out. That might make a difference in the ability of the owner to claim the house as the legal residence.
Common sense answers that easily, if you are not physically living there or off on a short term vacation it is not your "residence." It may be your property but it is not your "residence."
- - Key here is the term "vacation." Short term absence with intent to resume "residing" there upon your return maintains your residence status even if somebody else is "house-sitting" the place. Permanently moving to a "static" living situation somewhere else means you no longer "reside" at the former location even though you may still own it.
- - It just doesn't pay in the long run to try to "game/push" the system. You may get away with it for a period of time, but sooner or later something will happen and all of a sudden a whole pile of problems dump on you.
- - Government entities at all levels want to know who you are and where you are and trying to fight them individually is a loosing battle. Look at your new drivers license or State ID - you will see that starting last year there is a RFID chip imbedded in it - Federal requirement so that LEO's and anybody else with a "wand" can know everything about you instantly on the spot. Welcome to the brave new world. . .
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Not realy, the press hyped it up. It was just some local lowlife acting up, nothing to see, move on.
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Now,now, Anjou--be nice

Just up the road from you, (City Centre, and Handsworth), you had some interesting police activities a week or three back.

(Will be there on the 14th)

Tori, Lake monroe has some very nice cruising areas.
surely the cousins should know by now,the world views the good ole us of a through the eyes of whoopi goldberg(driving miss daisey) and bruce willis(die hard),or some where in between,perhaps john travolta(urban cowboy)....

this only convinces us commie,socialist, euro trash that the revolution is just around the corner..........
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Land of the Free eh?

Maybe come next election, you guys need to rethink your Bill of Rights and vote for reality.

But, dont go as far as Europe where only the bad guys have rights and the innocent are penalised and persecuted.
Yea free to talk about anything and congragate and meet in public and change things if we the PEOPLE want to..make no mistakes we are a Free Country and this is just one of many things that go wrong when you live in the USA ..not perfect,just blessed..and you know it.this is no big deal and these fine folks will be vendicated unless there are stories of police impersonation..they hate that DVC
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You need to have a place for mail from governments, banks, tax authorities, etc. to get to you while you are away. You must maintain some contact with your web of financial and other obligations as you might just get an IRS notice with 15 day or 90 day reply necessary. You just cannot have mail to pile up on your house's front porch for months or a year or more.
Mailing address and residence address are different. The Federal Real ID Act requires that the drivers license state the residence address, not the mailing address. You could have all your mail forwarded to a friend or relative, or a commercial service, but you cannot use that as your address for drivers license, at least in Real ID states (Fl is one of them, I believe). This also applies to your voter registration.
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The laws are very clear on the whole subject, and thousands of folks go cruising short and long term without problems because they take care of the details before setting off.
The laws may be clear to you, but to me they are anything but clear cut. It seems that one of the factors in determining the permanent residence address is "intent to return". Voter registration could be used as evidence of such intent, or maybe a drivers license (a circular argument!), or a legal affidavit?
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It is when you don't take care of the "details" that stuff starts to snowball out of control and you get behind the legal "8-ball" real quick. Laziness will get you killed offshore in a sailboat and on shore it will invite all sorts of complications and consequences you could probably do without.
I agree, but the first step is to figure out the rules, and they are not obvious, at least to me.
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For several years, as a liveaboard in the SF bay of California I had a PO box number as my address on my drivers license.
Once again, it depends.
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IME all Govts / Depts get confused about folk who genuinely don't live in a single place and that all documents don't match addresses.

From my (vague) understanding it appears that the "PoPo" do have OP's hubby by the short & curlies on a couple of points (i.e. the tags were not current).....I would certainly be throwing a lawyer at this (and if it helps maybe also get his written opinion that you do in fact live where the vehicle is reqistered - you just spend a lot of time on your 30 foot sailboat, hence you have some mail / contact details via the Marina - and you telling the officer where you are based at the moment).....in any event maybe he can cut a deal where the Security Clearance is kept - in exchange for s#cking up a couple of charges?
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i've allways used "no fixed abode" as my home address,and "poste restante" as my mailing address,the only permernant address is my email.....does that make me a vagrant in a half million dollar yacht?...........
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i've allways used "no fixed abode" as my home address,and "poste restante" as my mailing address,the only permernant address is my email.....does that make me a vagrant in a half million dollar yacht?...........
I think it makes you ineligible for a Florida driver's license.
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I think it makes you ineligible for a Florida driver's license.
no worries i got a french one,really confuses the cops here in england,since they can't put points on it!!!!!!!!
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IME all Govts / Depts get confused about folk who genuinely don't live in a single place and that all documents don't match addresses.
Exactly--in the Third Reich the government went so far as create Gypsy camps (Zigeunerlager) for the nomadic Roma peoples living within Germany while trying to figure out how these people with no permanent residences fit into the scheme of things. Later they were simply sent to Sachsenhausen and similar concentration camps.
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Once again the laws are not clear cut and some statutes are vague and open to interpretation. Nobody was trying to push an issue or be untruthful we simply have two addresses at the moment. If a normal person with no criminal history breaks some vague law they should be warned and not arrested. Arrest is for criminal activities like theft, rape, assault, murder etc. Not for a very recently expired tag or confusion about an address. We were targeted due the Joes occupation and the appearance of our vehicle and when the officer could not get the felony arrest he so clearly wanted he searched his computer in his car and found something to arrest Joe for. Sad but true maybe this is a "police" state but a trip to jail is humiliating, stressful and absolutely unnecessary.
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