RBHouston@aol.com wrote:
>The states have no authority to require them to have insurance, and there is
>no treaty agreement between the
>US and Mexico requiring insurance.
>
Not quite right. A driver from Northern Ireland or North Dakota must
comply with ALL of a state's motor vehicle laws. Interstate compacts
require that one state recognize another state's driver's license and
vehicle registration for a very limited period of time. However, a
driver from Outer Mongolia must still have any insurance required by a
state to use its roads.
>Besides these international drivers, you have a huge percentage of drivers
>with no insurance and no license.
>
And these are the ones who must be punished heavily and swiftly if there
is to be a respect for the law.
>Enforcement by city police is stymied by the city attorney who tells them when
>they stop a car for anything and discover it does not have insurance, they are
>not allowed to have the car impounded and towed.
>
Such an instruction by a city attorney to ignore a state law constitutes
nonfeasance in office. Oh, a city attorney can instruct police officers
not to enforce city ordinances, and they have the prerogative not to
file a complaint after an officer has cited an individual. But they
may not instruct or induce as police officer to ignore ANY state law.
In some states, impounding is not necessarily required, but is
permissable. In a "permissable" case, a City Attorney may make
suggestion, but cannot make it a requirement.).
Buster Evans
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