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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]You don't want Georgetown turning things over to a collection agency and jeopardizing your credit score over something fairly small and dumb. I'd appeal and pay if you lose. [/quote]

Is there actually a legal debt here though?  What authority does a private university have to issue parking tickets?  I can’t just go out on the street and ticket illegally parked cars and make the owners pay me money.[/quote]

No, you can't, that's true. That's mostly because the District hasn't delegated parking or police powers to you, but if it had, you probably could. If it was on campus, they own the street where the parking violation occurred; if it was off campus but nearby, they're authorized by the city to enforce parking. [/quote]

Looks like that’s not entirely true.
https://transportation.georgetown.edu/campus-traffic-rules/
This says they can enforce GU rules on GU property.  If the car was on a public street, it appears they have no authority to issue a ticket.  And that also implies that this “ticket” isn’t actually enforceable if you don’t have some regular interaction with GU.  
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I don't think this says anything about what they can or can't do on a public street, but you're right, it does look like they mostly enforce on GU property. (Which, since this apparently happened at drop-off near a campus building, is probably where the ticket was issued.) I don't think I agree with you that that page implies they can't enforce it if you don't have regular interaction with GU. It doesn't say anything about that, and it says they'll refer unpaid tickets to their definitely-not-GU-affiliated contracted debt collection agency.

Seems to me the easiest thing to do here would be to pay the ticket, rather than deal with a collection agency for an unknown amount of time and probably wind up paying it later. [/quote]

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