Hey! Corporations Are People Too!

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Man in California tries to find loophole around HOV laws by stating that because "he had corporate incorporation papers in his car at the time and...the state vehicle code views corporations as persons--therefore he and his corporation constituted a two-person carpool."
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    • Originally Posted by hardraysnight View Post

      if only i knew what hov means
      "High Occupancy Vehicle" - and yeah, it seems like a pretty dumb thing to call it to me too...(as if "2" people constitutes "high occupancy" :confused it's how California refers to it's car-pool lanes -
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  • Profile picture of the author seasoned
    Well, a corporations papers are like the birth certificate. Tax records are like, SURPRISE, tax records! The corporate stamp is like a signature stamp.

    Since birth certificates, tax records, and stamps are NOT people, he should LOSE the case!

    Steve
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  • Profile picture of the author seasoned
    The whole statement is MORONIC! It actually makes LESS sense than my saying that I should count as 7 people because I have part of the DNA of my mother, father, and all four of THEIR parents! At least the DNA affects some person, who is living and must be transported, etc.... I guess he figures a corporate car should be able to drive ITSELF with NO people in the carpool lane because the corporation may have thousands of people employed.

    A corporation is *******NOT******* a piece of paper! The jerk should be thrown in jail, after paying the fine and all expenses, for having such a stupid idea to give people grief and waste people's time! And the LITERAL meaning of CORP-ORATION is to change into a person! CORP means BODY, or person, and ATION implies "to change into".

    That said.... If he wants to drive the CORPORATION, the building, and all employees, down the road, he can THEN drive in the carpool lane!

    ALSO, he should LOSE the corporation! He is trying to pierce it ANYWAY, so let him LOSE it!

    Steve
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  • There have been similar cases like this in CA.

    One lady tried to get off because she was pregnant, and that constituted 2 people...

    And my favorite - A guy in San Jose, who was legally blind, and he was driving with a 'seeing eye dog' - which he said was a passenger who helped him drive, and gave him the right to drive (???) in the car-pool lane!
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    • Profile picture of the author AprilCT
      Too funny, creative, but I bet he loses. The ones that really make me laugh are the guys who put blow up dolls or lifelike mannequins dressed up in the passenger seat and still get caught.
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      • Profile picture of the author seasoned
        Originally Posted by AprilCT View Post

        Too funny, creative, but I bet he loses. The ones that really make me laugh are the guys who put blow up dolls or lifelike mannequins dressed up in the passenger seat and still get caught.
        YEAH, he REALLY IS LOGICALLY, PRACTICALLY, and LEGALLY, arguing that a birth certificate is a person and should be considered such for the purposes of an HOV lane. *****STUPID******! The HOV lane was created to provide a quicker way to transport multiple people on major roads. They do NOT consider groceries to be a person and certainly don't consider a birth certificate to be one. THAT is why you haven't heard this before. The idea of a corporation being a person under the law has been the case since day one, and probably well over 100 years HOV lanes, in the US, have been there for probably 35-40 years AT LEAST! In california, BTW, last I knew, they were called CARPOOL lanes. In many states on the east coast, and midwest, they are called HOV lanes. In either case, the MINIMUM number of people, including the driver, is generally TWO!

        Steve
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