I am not an attorney, but I am pretty sure that in order for the police to bring charges against the restaurant employee for making a false report, the police need to believe that the restaurant employee intended to deceive them.Soccerdad1995 wrote:Posting an improper sign is not a crime. Filing a false police report is a crime. When a store owner calls the police to report a MWAG and the fact is that there is no valid 30.07 sign (or 30.06 if the owner somehow noticed a CC), then the police should be addressing the store owner who has committed a crime (false police report) and not the law abiding citizen who has committed no crime. Instead of acting as an agent for the criminal by providing effective notice, how about arresting the criminal who called in a false police report?mreed911 wrote:If the signs aren't legal, you DON'T have to abide by the signs. Period.gunman40 wrote:what gets me mad is that we have to follow the law as it is written, but businesses with improper signs do not. DPS said in our renewal class 2 years ago that they will not police the signs. maybe we should work on that next session; if the signs are not legal then we do not have to abide by the non legal signs. my 2 cents.
However, unlike 30.06, where nobody except you knows, with 30.07 walking past an invalid sign will almost always get either a verbal notice (which is valid) or interaction with the police (as detailed in post 1 of this thread).
What would be interesting is a CIVIL fine to those who post invalid signs and call the police department to enforce them, much like people who don't have alarm permits but police respond to their alarms. Post an invalid sign and call the police to enforce it, they will, but it'll cost you $100.
That would at LEAST get correct signs up, which for 30.07 doesn't "hurt" the status quo. In some cases they might come down because the owner doesn't want to post something large and conspicuous enough to be legal.
The restaurant employee probably told the police that the OCer was disobeying the sign that was posted at the entrance. The employee probably believed the sign was legal notice to the OCer and did not intend to deceive the police.