A class-action lawsuit filed in Clarendon County is asking the local Common Pleas Court to nullify Turbeville’s Town Traffic Ordinance and also return “millions of dollars to the tens of thousands of drivers” who have received tickets under the local law since its passage in 2003.
Plaintiffs Rebecca Robbins and Marie Babayan claim they were both fined during separate stops in the small town with a population of a little more than 800 in excess of what state law allows.
The suit cites two separate state Attorney General’s opinions that the town’s ordinance – first passed in 2003 and updated in 2009 – violates state law which already sets fines and penalties for violations of the Uniform Traffic Act.
See Thursday’s Manning Times for more.
